Underwater Photography Courses 2013

Phew, once again I can't believe where the time has gone to, so here I am - finally with a laptop - and finally able to summarise what has been happening over the past 3 months. January was a lovely month for teaching, first I helped a lovely couple, Simon and his wife to get to grips with their compact cameras. Simon was upgrading from an Olympus MJU to a Canon S100 with a pair of lovely strobes and a wide angle lens, whilst his wife had a Sony Cybershot. Both of them left feeling confident that there would be no more blue photos in the family album and a great day was had. A couple of weeks' later, again at Jean's lovely Glebe Guest House in Frome, it was time to welcome a lovely group of 9 budding compact camera champions from BSAC in Luton. Again, another great day was had, there was a lot of information to be covered with a huge range of different compacts, from those who had a simple camera in just it's housing to one with the 'Full Monty' kit of wide angle, macro lenses as well a strobe. Camera makes were Sea & Sea, Fuji, Canon and Panasonic. All of them left with big smiles on their faces, astounded that they had spent a day learning underwater photography in an easy, relaxed manner, having lots of fun and using the great facilities and a comfy, welcoming venue that the Glebe House Guesthouse offers. They left to practice their skills at Vobster the next day to make a real special weekend of it all. February was time to head up to Liverpool and give a talk to over 20 underwater photography fans at Aquaventures. A great time was had, with again a whole host of camera options covered and everyone left incredibly happy by the skills that they found. March was time to welcome Valerie Scotto and to help her master the art of her Canon G12 before her trip to Gulen in Norway. Yes, the winter has definitely got to me as I have been living in my van during the winter and the winds have been fierce down in Swanage, but have really had a nice few months teaching.