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Please join us for the NCUPS October 12, 2012 meeting. Meetings are held in Millbrae, California. For directions or more information about NCUPS visit our website at: http://www.ncups.org

Doors open: 7:00PM

Pre-meeting Presentation: Photo Sharing Sites by Brad Brown
Minicomp Subject: Creative; Anything goes! Have fun. Digital editing is allowed and encouraged!

FEATURE PRESENTER (starts at 8PM): Lynn Funkhouser

THE PHILIPPINES - More Critters, More Fun, Less Hassle.

Lynn will share photos from four of her favorite areas of the Philippines.

• Tubbataha - the 1st UNESCO World Heritage Marine Park Site with huge schools of fish, turtles, sharks, mantas, etc..

• Dumaguete - where you can dive Apo Island which is the model marine sanctuary to the world as well as the inspiration for the $49 million Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium

• Anilao - a hotbed of evolution & the model for the Philippine exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences;

• Puerto Galera which was a port to the Spanish Galleons in the 1400's and is now a diving mecca.

Biography:
Lynn Funkhouser was inducted into the inaugural Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF). She is an internationally published photographer, author, lecturer, environmentalist, adventuress, and leader in dive travel. She specializes in underwater, nature, travel, and environmental images.

In 2008, Lynn was inducted into the Society of Women Geographers. SWG members are women who love adventure and have added to the world's knowledge. Members include Amelia Earhart, Eugenie Clark,
Sylvia Earle, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, and Pearl Buck.

She has been diving & photographing in the Philippines for two-months each year since 1976, and has visited and dived over 250 islands. Lynn was a consultant to the John G. Shedd Aquarium of Chicago's spectacular Wild Reef exhibit, a $49 million, 15,000 new sq. ft., eight-years in the planning, permanent exhibit on Apo Island in the
Philippines. Visit Lynn's website www.lynnfunkhouser.com for more information on Lynn and her travels to the Philippines.

As an environmentalist, Lynn is committed to making a difference on this planet through her images and lectures.

For more information on Lynn Funkhouser visit her website at: http://www.lynnfunkhouser.com/

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Lynn Funkhouser, who was originally scheduled to present The Philippines tomorrow night (10/12), has been forced to cancel her appearance and in her place Chuck Tribolet will share some fantastic images from the Sea of Cortez.

Tribolet, was born and raised in the Arizona desert, Chuck is an avid diver and long-time NCUPS member. Past presentations have included the realities of rebreathers and his Ph.D. (Push here Dummy) underwater photography education series. Active in the local dive community, Chuck maintains a web page providing weather and dive conditions for the Monterey region, and is a moderator of the ba_diving e-mail list. Active in all sorts of nature photography, Chuck also belongs to the Bay Area Bird Photographers, Wildlife Photographers of Silicon Valley, and Monterey Peninsula Underwater Photographers. He supports his Nikon habit working in Silicon Valley as a software engineer. Though best known for diving Monterey over a hundred times a year, Chuck often makes a trip to warm water, traveling to Fiji, Cocos, Australia, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Hawaii, and Tahiti.

Last year, Chuck returned to his desert roots, diving aboard Rocio del Mar, a liveaboard dive boat operating in the Sea of Cortez. It mostly dives the Midriff Islands about in the middle of the length of the Sea. It picks up in Puerto Penasco at the north end, only about an hour and a half into Mexico. Tropical diving you can drive to, no TSA, no luggage limits. Chuck and life buddy Linda Reisinger loved it. The photo subjects are mostly macro, but divers occasionally get to snorkel with Sperm Whales and almost always with Whale Sharks. Chuck will present his images from the trip.