Congrats to NCUPS Winners

Hi Folks,

Some of us have known for a while, but the results are now public on the NCUPS website:

http://www.ncups.org/sea03/Sea2003winners.html

In the order in which they appear:

Intermediate Macro Digital

1st Herb Ko

"Squid Close-Up"

Novice Wide/Normal Digital

1st Rand McMeins

"C-52"

And "Wetpixellers" SWEEP the intermediate WA digital category with:

Intermediate Wide/Normal Digital

1st Eric Cheng

" Night Dolphin"

2nd Herb Ko

" Fish Trail"

3rd Eric Cheng

" Mixed Dolphin Pod"

HW Kasey Canton

"Green Turtle"

HM Eric Cheng

" Great White Shark"

And a HUGE congratulations to Eric for his "Best of Show" digital shot "Night Dolphin"

Way to go gang! I'm glad that NCUPS has put together a contest where film and digital shooters can both compete.

Cheers

James

Thanks.

Kasey also got 3rd in Intermediate Print.

Thanks Herb - gosh, the print category just totally slipped my mind ;o)

Cheers

James

Congratulations for all of you!

It’s great to see the folks we know here in the top of U/W photo world.

Congratulations too! Fantastic news.

Well done all.

Outstanding!

Ahem, if I may be so bold as to toot my own horn, I also

had winning entries in the latest NCUPS competition.

I took first, second, and third place (a clean sweep!) in

the Novice Digital Macro category.

These photos were taken with my very first underwater

photography rig, and it had many problems that I overcame

with field repairs. I wouldn't have taken more than a handful

of pictures on that trip if it weren't for duct tape, superglue,

and rubber bands - no joke!

I won a week-long liveaboard cruise in the Bahamas

on the Aquacat. It wouldn't have been my first choice

in destinations, but somehow getting it for free has

provided tremendous leverage in convincing my wife

to take another vacation this winter

Hi Bobeson,

Congratulations for sure on the sweep. I had entered several "Can't miss" LOL! pics in the Macro Novice and you knocked them all out with some great shots.

Where were the pics taken? And what are you shooting with?

Rand

Congratulations to all (and again to Kasey for the shots in the other competion in the thread down below).

I took those shots with a Nikon D100 in a Subal D10 housing.

I don't recall what lighting I was using on each of the different

shots, but I alternated between using dual YS90-DX strobes

and a housed SB80DX. I was most likely using one YS90-DX

with a sync cord and one in slave mode for those shots,

since the SB80DX housing was giving me so much grief.

I believe that all three of the winning shots were taken in

Indonesia, near Komodo, but I would have to search through

my archives to be certain. They were taken on a two-month

trip through Sipidan (Malaysia), Papua New Guinea, Bali/Komodo,

Manado (Indonesia), and the Lembeh Straits. I came home

with almost 5,000 digital pictures, and selected over 300 keepers.

Despite this, I had a tough time picking shots to enter, as the

ones I liked the most usually had lighting problems because of

the equipment issues I was having. I'm surprised that the

anemone fish shot took first place, because it's such a cliche

subject, but I suppose the picture is a good one.

Well done the Wetpixellers are wellpixelling more and more..

Just for curiosity: is it a local contest, where you have to live in cali?

I wish we had such nice socities here in Germany too.

The contest is open to everyone. They had entries and winners from Europe.

SHH don't tell them. hahaha