"Great Courses,
Easy-to-Understand, Fantastic Results."
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Do you struggle with really blue underwater scenes,
blurry out-of-focus fish and blame it on your compact
camera? Do you think that great photos are only obtainable
by big, heavy underwater photographic equipment that
will cost you heaps in excess baggage charges?
Think again! Come and join us on an unforgettable
day at a spectacular venue on one of our special one
day underwater photography or photoshop courses with
the genuine personal touch or our special trips abroad
and let our experience, expertise and knowledge help
you take great photos with your compact camera that
will leave you amazed. These are based either in the
breathtaking setting of a thousand views of Eynsham
Hall, Oxford, at the London School of Diving in Chiswick,
or at our very own classroom in Bromley, Kent.
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We also run specialised beginners photography workshops
for divers with compact cameras who are keen to get great
results fast in a friendly, easy-to-understand environment
with accessories on board to try out. These are truly unique
and guests' photographs have improved beyond belief in less
than 2 days.
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Before and After
Shots.
Can you name them:
Turtle Looking Rather Blue!
Turtle with Lots of Colours!
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Maria set up Ocean Visions to help divers
with compact cameras realise that they can take amazing
photographs underwater, which has been an amazing success.
She set off round the world in 2001 following her love of
whales, dolphins and sharks with a Sony Cybershot and later
an Olympus 5050 with filters and strobes on hand to record
her underwater memories. She is a self-taught photographer
using a range of Canon SLR Cameras both above and underwater
too and has visited over 30 countries in total and loves
nothing more than sharing her hard-won tips and techniques
learnt to help her guests take beautiful photographs.
Her career background has including working
for the Metropolitan Police, First Choice Holidays as an
Overseas Representative as well as designing English Courses
in Spain for Ikea, Palma Airport, the Police, Hotels as
well as Financial Institutions in Majorca whilst living
there. She has also worked at Jessops and PC World since
returning to the UK accumulating more camera knowledge which
is eagerly shared with guests. She has experience in using
Sony, Sea & Sea, Olympus, Fuji and Canon Cameras with
both Epoque, Ikelite and Inon accessories.
Speaking both Spanish, Portuguese and bits
of Japanese and Polish, she is fiercely passionate on Ocean
Conservation Issues and spent 2004 initiating a project
with the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, based
in Florida, setting up their first Field Station in Latin
America which was on the pacific side of Mexico in Puerto
Vallarta.In 2006 she pioneered and led four successful underwater
photography trips exclusively for beginners which were the
first of their kind excusively for divers with digital compact
cameras and have been a huge success. She also helps The
Scuba Trust, a charity set up to help divers with disabilities
based in Kent.
Her work has been featured in the UK's Professional
Photographer, Mexico, Costa Rica, the front cover of the
Royal Photographic Society, the Traveller's Handbook, Sport
Diver UK, H2O magazine, Women's Magazine Real, Outdoor Enthusiast,
Wanderlust as well as a forthcoming issue of Diver Magazine.
She has also launched shark conservation campaigns with
the late Peter Benchley as well as John Prescott and has
been voted as Extraordinary Person by her local paper, the
Kentish Times in Bromley, Kent. She is a member and sponsor
of the British Society of Underwater Photographers. She
is currently applying for her licentiateship with the Royal
Photographic Society.
Thank you for taking the time to read this,
I do hope that you enjoy the photographs as much as I enjoyed
taking them and I look forward to hearing about your very
own photographic adventures very soon.
A very special thank you goes to Cathy Church
and Jack & Sue Drafahl for their help and inspiration
during the past couple of years. A big thank you goes to
all of my guests and friends who I have met along the journey
and kept me smiling - it really has been an amazing couple
of years. Thank you!
Very Best Fishes,
Maria
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