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Beneath the Sea 2009 is pleased to invite Photographers and Videographers from around the world to enter the Beneath the Sea International Imaging competition.

Prizes include

• Trip aboard the renowned liveaboard Nai’a diving the amazing reefs of Fiji
• Surprise prizes
• Grandmaster recognition
  • Underwater Photographers will compete for the coveted David Doubilet award for excellence in underwater photography.
  • Underwater Videographers will compete for the distinguished Stan Waterman award for excellence in underwater video.
  • Underwater Photographic Artists compete for the celebrated Jim Church award for excellence increative underwater photography.

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The International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade is a will be held, like every year, during the beginning of December, from 12th to 16th 2008. We will be honored to present your film or films to our audience. Films for the contest would have to be 2007. or 2008. production, with at least 30% underwater shots.

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Looking for unwatermarked high resolution images? If you have a hard time finding one then try to search for wallpapers. Recently, I found many wallpaper galleries offering free use of their images. These images do not have watermark or copyright notices imprinted on them and are free to use.

Searching for the term “wallpapers”, Google yield 171,000,000 results. The first 2 results alone include the term “free wallpapers” and ‘wallpaper free download”. Like any other subject, topic or images, wallpapers are sorted into different categories: Absract, Nature, Sexy, Celebrities, Sports, Technology, Business, Cartoons, Sceneries, Flowers and Animals.

Available wallpapers do not only come as static images. Some of them are offered in dynamic or animated forms and used as screensavers. With such big number and variety to choose from, you will surely find that high resolution images appropriate for your project.

Just a note though, be sure to check the terms of usage for the wallpaper that you like. Although there are many free wallpapers, some of them have conditions before they can be use.

I just added some photos at the Photo Gallery so do check it out and feel free to leave some comments.

The photo below was taken in one of the souvenir shops in Japan while we were looking for some souvenirs to take home. The artist was busy and so engrossed with his work that he didn’t seem to notice the people who were watching him.

My SP500UZ Olympus camera default setting is at 2816 x 2112 pixels. Most of the time, the pictures are taken from events and seminars. I can take hundreds of random pictures as long as my 2 sets of batteries permit. But then, I find it time consuming to resize the pictures to be suitable for emailing or posting on blogs for others to see.

Another issue and very time-consuming when managing the images is renaming to be easily identifiable. (I was renaming my files before through a DOS program REN or RENAME). So, I just digitally archive the images unretouched and unedited.

Naturally, I searched for program to simplify such tedious work but maybe, I was searching for the wrong term. Some of the programs I encountered can do batch resizing but can only resize a maximum of 100 x 100 pixels. Then, renaming should be done manually.

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