Monthly Meetings

Join us at the Gurkha Grill for a curry beforehand or for the meeting starting at 8pm Speakers – Alex Tasker and Olivier Van Overbeek Topic – Two talks on Scapa Flow Competition Theme – Crustaceans

The June NUPG meeting saw Wendy Northway give a talk on the vital work of Seasearch. Seasearch is a volunteer led national project for divers to collect information to be used for marine conservation. It started some 30 years ago as an initiative started by the Marine Conservation Society. There […]

Join us at the Gurkha Grill for a curry beforehand or for the meeting starting at 8pm. Speaker – Wendy Northway   Topic – Seasearch    Competition Theme – Spots

The May meeting saw the NUPG hold their AGM and the first point of order was to thank the outgoing committee members for all their hard work over the past 12 months that saw new members joining the club, great talks and popular underwater photography events. The new committee was […]

The first part of the meeting will be our AGM. We would welcome new volunteers for the committee, if you’d like to know more please contact one of the current committee members. To keep the evening fun, once the AGM dicussions are complete, we have a short talk from Roisin […]

This month Alex Tasker gave us an insight into photogrammetry and his journey so far using this technique underwater. Our usual focus at NUPG is capturing the beautiful scenes we see underwater in 2D, so turning these images into something in 3d so you can move around an object or […]

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Competition Theme – Cephalopods

A wet windy night did not deter people arriving to be entertained by Jason Gregory this month and his very informative presentation on the planning behind his shot of a Phosphorescent sea pen (Pennatula phosphorea) for the BSoUP Splash-In 2017 competition. He succeeded in getting a well-deserved runner-up spot out […]

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February saw the NUPG welcoming Nick & Caroline Robertson-Brown of Frogfish Photography who entertained us with a presentation entitled “Telling Tales” which was all about the type of underwater images required by diving magazines, newspapers, online media and other organisations. Nick is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and […]

On the day ‘Splash-In’ underwater photography competitions; Random or plan? – I went plan. This month Jason Gregory is coming to tell us how he produced his beautiful image of a “Sea Pen” which succeeded in him nabbing the runner-up close up shot in The British and Irish Underwater Photography […]