James Wiseman provides a show report of Seaspace 2003 in Houston, Texas.

Frequent Wetpixel contributor and professional photographer Jim Watt will be leading the first Digital Photography Seminar in Komodo National Park during the month of November, 2003. The trip dates are as follows:

November 1 - 12, 2003 (featuring Jim Watt o­nly)

November 14 - 25, 2003 (featuring Jim Watt, Berkley White and Dan Baldocchi)

November 27 - Dec 8, 2003 (featuring Jim Watt, Berkley White and Dan Baldocchi)

For more information, check out Kararu's website or e-mail Jim Watt. Be sure to use Wetpixel as a reference, if you end up going!

250,000 Unique Visitors!

Congratulations to the Wetpixel community! We surpassed 250,000 unique visitors today -- in non-forum areas o­nly. Thanks again for your support!

Aquatica has given Wetpixel permission to post some pre-production shots of their upcoming Fuji S2 Pro digital SLR housing.

Simon Rogerson, editor of Dive Magazine, talks about their first all-digital cover, shot by renowned underwater photographer Douglas David Seifert.

Aquatica has given Wetpixel permission to post some pre-production shots of their upcoming Fuji S2 Pro digital SLR housing. Keep your eyes peeled for a full review! [see the photos]

Underwater photographer Douglas David Seifert and Dive Magazine editor Simon Rogerson have notified Wetpixel that Dive Magazine has printed their first all-digital cover!

"This is our first all-digital cover, and I'm extremely proud of it. I'm especially happy that our first digital cover should be an animal as majestic as the whale shark. Douglas David Seifert is probably the best shark photographer in the world, and o­nce again was first o­n the scene when an astonishing discovery was made.

"I have noticed certain correspondents arguing that current digital photography is not appropriate for magazine use. Hopefully this cover shot - and an A3 portrait of a great hammerhead we are using in our Shark Special magazine ­ will disabuse them of that notion. Make no mistake - digital has arrived." - Simon Rogerson [read more]

1000th Forum Member!

Congratulations to Wetpixel forum user Dukgose2 (Michael McDonald), who was the lucky 1000th member to register! Dugose2 has won an Epoque DCL-20 wide conversion lens (retail value $299.95), gratiously donated by Wetpixel sponsor Marine Camera Distributors. The DCL-20 is a high quality 0.56x magnification conversion lens that fits the following underwater housings: Olympus PT-005 / 007 / 010 / 012 / 015, Epoque EHS-200 Z, EHC-1000, and EHN-4500.

Wetpixel's 1000 members have logged almost 15,000 posts since Wetpixel was conceived, and the forums are the perfect place to bounce ideas (and images!) off of fellow underwater shooters. If you are not yet a member, please join us!

Field notes and an image gallery from Rod Klein's 3 weeks on board the Bay Islands Aggressor IV with a Sea & Sea DX100-housed Nikon D100. While aboard, Rod conducted digital workshops and gave his DX100 a serious workout.

Frequent contributor Rod Klein is back from three weeks conducting digital workshops aboard the Bay Islands Aggressor IV, where he gave his Nikon D100 and Sea & Sea DX100 housing a serious workout. Wetpixel is proud to host his field notes about the DX100 and a gallery of some of the images he captured while out there. [go to field notes] [go to gallery]