Underwater Photography Talk with Ocean Divers, Caterham, Surrey

So the following week took me to see the lovely club of Ocean Divers at Warlingham, Surrey, where they meet at a gorgeous Spanish Restaurant called "La Bodegita". The place was packed and there were plenty of divers in amongst them upstairs waiting for me! I was really touched, lots of compact camera users and gorgeous Spanish food which I love ... the photos will be coming very soon. We ran a photo competition and Kate won with a gorgeous photograph of a cave with rays of light shining through it. I really love giving talks to Dive Clubs and can't wait for the next scheduled talk which will be nearer my home in Sheffield with Diveworld Sheffield on 29th January! A special thank you goes to Paul Davies, Matt Wright and all the lovely members of the club for making me feel so welcome. I'll be running an underwater photography course with them on 3rd March in Caterham, so if you are interested, just let me know!

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 for the Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard, London

I was extremely touched (and very nervous) at being asked to give a talk where I used to work for the Metropolitan Police at their Headquarters in London on 7th January. There was a really great turnout and after a few hiccups with my new laptop, all ran very smoothly. It was absolutely superb to be back and made me miss my old job there :(

Many thanks to Ian, Chanon, Steve, Jane, Kim, Zoe & Ben for their help in making this event so special and a special thanks to David for the invitation to go diving with the Met down in Portland. Just need the weather to warm up first!!! :)