British Underwater Photography Championship 2012

Brian Pitkin · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 43–46

Products mentioned: ScubaCool dive cylinder cover, Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users by Maria Munn, Beneath Cornish Seas by Mark Webster

Underwater Photography is not an Olympic event and never will be. Diving does however require skill and photography is an art. The combination presents a real challenge. Each year the British Society of Underwater Photographers (BSoUP) holds the British Underwater Photography Championship. This year the event was held as usual at Mount Batten, Plymouth, Devon on Saturday 14th July. Underwater Photographers from all over the UK were invited to participate. On the Friday evening before the event 38 photographers registered to compete by photographing a registration sheet with a unique number and their name on the first frame of their camera’s memory card. They had from midnight until 6.00pm. on Saturday to capture images underwater before selecting one image to enter in each of three main categories Marine Life, Mankind in the Sea and this year’s Theme Crustaceans. They could, if they chos…