Your questions answered:
 Why Andy Belcher?
You won’t often find award winning photographer and photojournalist Andy Belcher without a camera in hand - and two or three spares in his suitcase. As one of the world’s top underwater and adventure photographers he travels far and wide to collect his stunning images.
His schedule has included dive trips to South Pacific destinations, adventurous jaunts around New Zealand, a steamy journey into the Malaysian jungle and close encounters with over-active volcanoes. Andy is a Qualified PADI Dive Instructor and was awarded the SSI Pro 5000 award for services to diving.
To get dramatic results he is prepared to go where others fear to tread and loves the challenges of his job. “I constantly strive for images that are artistic and different…and that are better than anything I’ve done before.”
Some people have a flair for teaching. They can take the most complex subjects and explain them with such clarity they are easy to grasp. Such a teacher is Andy Belcher. He brings the rare combination of an artists mind with a proven creative flair to his underwater photography and the way he passes on his skills and experience to others. One of his favorite subjects is explaining how to take close-focus, wide-angle pictures - a difficult technique to master - but he is also a master of all the other disciplines necessary to make a good underwater photographer. In particular, he is one of the few who can talk lucidly about composition - another topic which most people find difficult to explain.
Why The Poor Knights?
The Poor Knights is possibly the world's best destination for learning underwater photography! Is that an idle boast or is it really true? Well, we have numerous islands in the Poor Knights, 70 dive sites in day-range, many species of coral and around 3,000 marine species! You can see everything here from tiny nudibranches, and shrimp to sting rays and sharks! Our diving is warm-water (average 22C during summer), with great visibility (average 25m) and generally excellent surface conditions. The Poor Knights deep walls provide many wide-angle possibilities, while Nursery Cove and the rock gardens offer endless macro opportunities. The night diving is among the richest to be found on earth and there's even 2 wrecks in the bay to give you a chance to try out new angles and lighting. Most importantly, the Poor Knights is not a crowded destination, where another diver gets in the way, just as a Toadstool Grouper is opening his mouth for your perfectly positioned camera!
Who should come?
You should be serious about underwater photography. The course aims to improve the photographs of those of you who have some experience in underwater photography and help you refine your skills. Equipment will be covered in greater detail than on other basic courses, close-up photography will be covered, and you will gain a greater understanding of the choices available to you when planning to take photographs underwater.
Enquire about departure dates and pricing here.
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