Going to the Northwest Dive and Travel show this weekend?

Wetpixel and Wetpixel Quarterly will be attending the Northwest Dive and Travel Expo at the Tacoma Convention Center in Washington state this weekend, April 25-26, 2009. Matt Segal and I were up in Seattle last year to dive with six-gill sharks, and we found the local dive community to be some of the best hosts we've ever encountered. We've heard great things about this show, and are excited to be represented there.

Wetpixel will be in booth 925. If you'd like to go to the show and are interested in volunteering to help represent Wetpixel at our booth, we'd love to have you. Please email Michaela Brockstedt if you want to go!

I too will have a booth (#805), as will several other WetPixel photo businesses. Great place to come play with new toys!

Washington State Fish & Game will be showing off a prototype the new dive site map "Beneath Emerald Seas" which I wrote, photographed and designed for them (as well as State Tourism and Island County). It lists about 46 sites for both shore and boat dives with other information for divers. The maps will be free and available in most all dive shops in the state and available online, probably in June.

Stop by and say hi!

Jack

UPDATE: Wetpixel will be in booth 925.

UPDATE: Wetpixel will be in booth 925.

I got a chance to look at the WetPixel Quarterly mag and bought a subscription. Very impressive work!

Dave

I flew up to Seattle to help out in the South Pacific Island Travel booth and really enjoyed the show. Saturday was busier than Sunday, but we had a good crowd most the time. It was fun to see a lot of old friends too. I know that Ellen will be writing up a short report of the show, but here are a few more photos to add.

Jeff from Jack's Diving Locker in Kona entertaining the girls from Wetpixel

Me, Chris Huss, Kim from South Pacific Island Travel, and Terry from Underwater Sports

Me trying on the White's Fusion dry suit...it fit perfectly and is soooo comfortable! Yes, I bought it.

Jack and Sue Drafahl in the book signing booth

Ellen from Wetpixel and Jean from Aquatica

Paty and Tim from Scuba Club Cozumel

Mt. Rainier from the plane

I flew up to Seattle to help out in the South Pacific Island Travel booth and really enjoyed the show. Saturday was busier than Sunday, but we had a good crowd most the time. It was fun to see a lot of old friends too. I know that Ellen will be writing up a short report of the show

Thanks for these images Bonnie! It was a most pleasant surprise to see you at the show!

Little did I know that working at the Wetpixel booth would be so much fun. It was a momentous event for me to use my new D300 for the very first time outside of the confines of my home. What could be better than a dive show and Wetpixel for my new D300's inaugural event?

And a big, huge thanks to Jean of Aquatica. He so very kindly offered to let me borrow his 17-35 lens to use at the show. And this in spite of the fact that I'd never met him before! Guess that Wetpixel badge convinced him that I was a soul he could trust

There should be some images and a report posted soon. Most of the images were taken with Jean's 17-35, which is one heck of a fantastic lens. Jean also joined Micheala and I for dinner that night. What a great ending to a great day.

Ellen

Just came back from the Tacoma Dive Show and had the best of time with the crowd over there, tons of Wetpixelians and muchos underwater photographer, I was actually pleasantly surprised at the per capitas of U/W photographer in this area.

Had a great time, punto!

I flew up to Seattle to help out in the South Pacific Island Travel booth and really enjoyed the show. Saturday was busier than Sunday, but we had a good crowd most the time. It was fun to see a lot of old friends too. I know that Ellen will be writing up a short report of the show, but here are a few more photos to add.

 

Jeff from Jack's Diving Locker in Kona entertaining the girls from Wetpixel

... and that lady second from the right was my dive buddy after the show on Sunday ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)