By Daily Mail Reporter | on 25th November 2011 If you’re planning to go head-to-head with a sea creature, it’s probably best to start small. Only the very brave, or very stupid, would begin a headbutting competition with a 50-ton sperm whale… after all, its head is one third of its overall size. Nevertheless, here [...]

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Congratulations to our very own Mazdak Radjainia – Winner of the Wildlife category! Photographer of the Year 2011 Congratulations to all the winners of the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year 2011. Twenty-two finalists were selected from nearly 3000 entries, but there could be only one Photographer of the Year. There were nearly 3,000 entries [...]

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AUUC members have cleaned up at this year’s Underwater Festival. Mazdak Radjainia has won the Humans category (07:51) and Still Camera video category (27:01). He also came second in the Big Stuff category (07:05). Ali Perkins has achieved second in the Temperate Waters category (03:21). (The numbers in brackets correspond to times in the video [...]

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Thanks to everyone who managed to sit through my loooooonnnnggg talk on underwater photography at Wednesday’s club meeting. For those keen underwater photographers out there, here is some information you might find of interest. Most importantly, read the Underwater Photographer’s Code of Practice. This book is the bible for underwater photographers, and it’s currently on [...]

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What happens when the wildlife doesn’t turn up? Check out the sardine run from 2009 – quite a different story!

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