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Scubaverse UWP Winners Gallery: Charly Clerisse
Each month we give the winner of the Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition the opportunity to show off a little more of their work in a gallery. The June winner was Charly Clerisse and you can see his winning image at the top of this page.
What do you love about diving & underwater photography?
Ever since I was a kid, I have always been passionate about the ocean and its inhabitants, but I didn’t try scuba diving until I was 22 while studying in Tenerife (Canary Islands) and instantly fell in love with it. About a year after I did my Divemaster course in Utila, Honduras, about a year after did my Instructor Course in Koh Tao, Thailand and I have been working in the diving industry since then, travelling and diving in many different places, meeting loads of people and being able to take pictures.
I started underwater photography almost at the same time as diving: I started with a little GoPro Hero, recording pictures and videos for my non-diving friends and relatives, to share the beauty of the underwater world for those who can not see it by themselves. Later on I upgraded for an Olympus Tg5 and moved to Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, and there I truly started to practise underwater photography, falling in love with all these crazy nudibranch you can find over there. After that, I started working in South Ari Atoll, Maldives where I used to take pictures of the Mantas passing in the area, collaborating with Manta Trust to record and identify the different individuals to study them. I love the underwater world, and by sharing my pictures I hope to create awareness about this beautiful yet fragile ecosystem.
What equipment do you use?
I use a Sony a6500 with a 16-50mm lens in a Fantasea a6500 housing. I use wet lenses: for the wide angle pictures, I use a Fantasea line UWL-400Q and for macro shots mainly the Fantasea UCL-06LF +12. As per strobes, I use a Sea&Sea YS-D2 and a Sea&Sea YS-03 Solis.
Where can our readers see more of your work?
My instagram account: https://www.
My website: charlyclerisse.com
To enter the latest Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition, with a chance to win some great prizes as well as have your own gallery published, head over to the competition page and upload up to 3 images.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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