Talk for DAGSAC, BSAC Club in Dagenham

And so last week it was off to Dagenham to reunite with a couple of course guests, Rob and Richie and to meet their club members to give a talk on "Creating Magic Photos with Your Compact". It was brilliant to see everyone there and even the non-divers really enjoyed the talk. £100 was raised for the RNLI which was fantastic and left there feeling really happy :) and I was given flowers, aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh ......

Talk at East Midlands Underwater Photography Group

Busy, busy, busy and it was time to escape London and head up to Stoney Cove where I was kindly invited by Robb Cuss of the East Midlands Underwater Photography Group. Sam and Mike were absolutely fab in taking me around some beautiful countryside, filled me up with a lovely dinner at Nemo's Bar, before nearly passing out at the turnout there for people to come and listen to the talk. A special thank you to all who came and sorry that I didn't have time to talk to anyone and had to rush off home. Thanks too to Sam and Mike for looking after me. It was really, really awesome and was touched to say that it was the best turnout that Rob had had this year - until I realised that it was still only January!!!

Smallest Person Ever on my Course!

What a busy, busy couple of weeks it has been! Since Alison and Mike graced their way back to sunny Scotland, I have met so many amazing guests during the past few weeks. Howard and Catherine came to spend a day with me to learn about their Canon Powershot and Canon Ixus with Inon Set-Up. They also brought along the smallest student that I have ever had on my course - in fact she is of course a memory stick :) They had a fantastic day as did John Brodie with his Fuji the following day pictured here with Lisa and struggled to get him out of the pool. He made this smashing portfolio and spent the next morning honing his photoshop techniques to make a cracking portfolio. We were all chuffed to bits with it and Lisa really extra chuffed with the retail therapy that she had in nearby Bluewater Shopping Centre whilst John was busy studying the course! Two more PADI Digital Underwater Photo Students passed with flying colours - hurrah!!!! :)