EcoWeek Costa Rica - EcoPhoto Challenge Dive Program
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May 18, 2011, 7:55:44 AM5/18/11
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EcoWeek Costa Rica - EcoPhoto Challenge
Sponsored by EcoGuide Costa Rica, XRay-Mag.com and DivePhotoGuide.com
Most everyone that goes on vacation owns a digital camera these days.
So why not combine your desire to explore Costa Rica's jungles,
mountains and oceans and challenge yourself and others to see - who
can get that perfect image?
This is a challenge with rewards. You get published, you get local
prizes like dinners, tours - cash, a new camera and maybe an all
expenses paid return vacation! This challenge is for non-professional
photographers.
Here is how it works. Plan your vacation for August the to 13th to the
20th. Take a daily excursion, scuba or snorkel dive and throughout
your day - FOCUS - your eye and your camera - on the adventures you
are experiencing!
There will be two assignment stages - Topside and Underwater. Within
each assignment there will be ten categories. TOPSIDE: Scenic, Action,
Wild Life (animals), Nature (flora and fauna) and Humor. UNDERWATER:
Scenic, Big Life, Close-up, Divers and Humor (more category details on
the registration form).
Throughout the week, internationally known professional photographer
Greg Johnston will be presenting digital and composition seminars.
This is not a challenge or assignment to take lightly as, when you
return from your excursions or dives you have to review the hundreds
of images you took and pick only your best of each category for that
day. You will do this for two consecutive days: Tuesday, August 16 and
Wednesday, August 17th. On Wednesday you turn in your best pick for
each category for judging.
Thursday is a free day – to dive or to explore. No pictures from this
day will be accepted. Thursday is judgement day! Thursday night is the
Awards Party! Not only will there be fantastic prizes, but you will be
published in three of the most distinguished, international
publications in the world and - you will be in the VIP company of the
publication editors!
About the judges:
Richard Stewart, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Ocean Realm
EcoJournal and EcoGuide Costa Rica (www.OceanRealmJournal.com -
www.EcoGuides.info).
Greg Johnston, Editor/Photographer, EcoDestination Adventures
(www.EcoDestinationAdventures.com) NEW release for fall 2011!
Peter Symes, Publisher and Editor or XRay-Mag, the international
online publication based in Copenhagen (www.XRay-Mag.com).
The EcoPhoto Challenge Packages
Underwater and Topside Images
This is an invitation for you to take your next scuba or photo
excursion vacation to the incredible Pacific coastal area of Costa
Rica – Guanacaste – while accepting the challenge of making the best
images during the four day EcoPhoto event.
Dive: Islas Murcielagos – the Bat Islands - where you will see
bridges, caverns, coral and sponges, plenty of big fish along with
Bull Sharks, Black Tips and occasionally Tigers. Another favorite area
is Isla Catalina where you see the Cortez angelfish, parrotfish, clown
shrimp, spotted eagle rays, hogfish and bull sharks.
Explore: Parque National Guanacaste, the summit Cerro Cacao (1,659m)
and Parque National Santa Rosa – one of the last areas of virgin dry
tropical forest in the world with 253 species of birds, 10,000 of
thousands of insects (including 3,200 butterfly species), 100 plus
amphibians and reptiles, and 115 mammal species like peccary, bats,
white-tailed deer, white-nosed coati, howler and capuchin monkeys; the
steamy summit of Volcan Rincon de la Vieja (1,895m) plus checking out
the fumaroles, bubbling mud pots and ashy grey mud of the national
park that shares the volcano's name.
Two EcoPhoto Challenge packages to choose from – Diver and Non-diver.
Photo excursions.
Day 1 (Saturday, Aug 13) Diver & Non-Diver – Arrive San Jose, transfer
to Crowne
Plaza, Ramada Herradura or Barcelo Palma Real (Friday and early AM
Saturday
arrival tour options available). Optional tours to the Coffee
Plantations in Naranjo,
the Lancaster Botanical Gardens and/or the Poas Volcano.
Day 2 (Sunday, Aug 14) Diver & Non-Diver – Full day of fun activities:
visit the *Green
Living Fair; tour of the Gold and Jade Museums (lunch included).
The EcoWeek's Green Living Fair is Costa Rica's first “green” event
featuring organic foods, cocoa and coffee pavilions, the wellness and
beauty pavilion, the green communities pavilion, the ecotourism
pavilion, recycle art show and environmental presentations.
Day 3 (Monday, August 15) Transfer to Guanacaste; check in at Hilton
Papagayo,
welcome cocktail and EcoPhoto event orientation.
Day 4 (Tuesday, August 16) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion day tour with
lunch
included.
Day 5 (Wednesday, August 17) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion day tour, lunch
included.
Day 6 (Thursday, August 18) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion half day tour
with lunch included (pictures from this day will not be part of the
challenge due to judging
time restrictions). Evening party and display of EcoPhoto winning
images.
Day 7 (Friday, August 19) Morning - Leisure at Hilton Papagayo,
transfer to San Jose,
overnight at any of the participating hotels: Crowne Plaza, Ramada
Herradura or
Barcelo Palma Real. Optional extended stays and tours available at
Papagayo,
Arenal and/or any other destinations.
Day 8 (Saturday, August 20) Transfers to San Jose Airport.
For more information visit www.EcoWeekCostaRica.com, or email
EcoPhoto...@EcoWeekCostaRica.com.
Sponsored by EcoGuide Costa Rica, XRay-Mag.com and DivePhotoGuide.com
Most everyone that goes on vacation owns a digital camera these days.
So why not combine your desire to explore Costa Rica's jungles,
mountains and oceans and challenge yourself and others to see - who
can get that perfect image?
This is a challenge with rewards. You get published, you get local
prizes like dinners, tours - cash, a new camera and maybe an all
expenses paid return vacation! This challenge is for non-professional
photographers.
Here is how it works. Plan your vacation for August the to 13th to the
20th. Take a daily excursion, scuba or snorkel dive and throughout
your day - FOCUS - your eye and your camera - on the adventures you
are experiencing!
There will be two assignment stages - Topside and Underwater. Within
each assignment there will be ten categories. TOPSIDE: Scenic, Action,
Wild Life (animals), Nature (flora and fauna) and Humor. UNDERWATER:
Scenic, Big Life, Close-up, Divers and Humor (more category details on
the registration form).
Throughout the week, internationally known professional photographer
Greg Johnston will be presenting digital and composition seminars.
This is not a challenge or assignment to take lightly as, when you
return from your excursions or dives you have to review the hundreds
of images you took and pick only your best of each category for that
day. You will do this for two consecutive days: Tuesday, August 16 and
Wednesday, August 17th. On Wednesday you turn in your best pick for
each category for judging.
Thursday is a free day – to dive or to explore. No pictures from this
day will be accepted. Thursday is judgement day! Thursday night is the
Awards Party! Not only will there be fantastic prizes, but you will be
published in three of the most distinguished, international
publications in the world and - you will be in the VIP company of the
publication editors!
About the judges:
Richard Stewart, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Ocean Realm
EcoJournal and EcoGuide Costa Rica (www.OceanRealmJournal.com -
www.EcoGuides.info).
Greg Johnston, Editor/Photographer, EcoDestination Adventures
(www.EcoDestinationAdventures.com) NEW release for fall 2011!
Peter Symes, Publisher and Editor or XRay-Mag, the international
online publication based in Copenhagen (www.XRay-Mag.com).
The EcoPhoto Challenge Packages
Underwater and Topside Images
This is an invitation for you to take your next scuba or photo
excursion vacation to the incredible Pacific coastal area of Costa
Rica – Guanacaste – while accepting the challenge of making the best
images during the four day EcoPhoto event.
Dive: Islas Murcielagos – the Bat Islands - where you will see
bridges, caverns, coral and sponges, plenty of big fish along with
Bull Sharks, Black Tips and occasionally Tigers. Another favorite area
is Isla Catalina where you see the Cortez angelfish, parrotfish, clown
shrimp, spotted eagle rays, hogfish and bull sharks.
Explore: Parque National Guanacaste, the summit Cerro Cacao (1,659m)
and Parque National Santa Rosa – one of the last areas of virgin dry
tropical forest in the world with 253 species of birds, 10,000 of
thousands of insects (including 3,200 butterfly species), 100 plus
amphibians and reptiles, and 115 mammal species like peccary, bats,
white-tailed deer, white-nosed coati, howler and capuchin monkeys; the
steamy summit of Volcan Rincon de la Vieja (1,895m) plus checking out
the fumaroles, bubbling mud pots and ashy grey mud of the national
park that shares the volcano's name.
Two EcoPhoto Challenge packages to choose from – Diver and Non-diver.
Photo excursions.
Day 1 (Saturday, Aug 13) Diver & Non-Diver – Arrive San Jose, transfer
to Crowne
Plaza, Ramada Herradura or Barcelo Palma Real (Friday and early AM
Saturday
arrival tour options available). Optional tours to the Coffee
Plantations in Naranjo,
the Lancaster Botanical Gardens and/or the Poas Volcano.
Day 2 (Sunday, Aug 14) Diver & Non-Diver – Full day of fun activities:
visit the *Green
Living Fair; tour of the Gold and Jade Museums (lunch included).
The EcoWeek's Green Living Fair is Costa Rica's first “green” event
featuring organic foods, cocoa and coffee pavilions, the wellness and
beauty pavilion, the green communities pavilion, the ecotourism
pavilion, recycle art show and environmental presentations.
Day 3 (Monday, August 15) Transfer to Guanacaste; check in at Hilton
Papagayo,
welcome cocktail and EcoPhoto event orientation.
Day 4 (Tuesday, August 16) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion day tour with
lunch
included.
Day 5 (Wednesday, August 17) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion day tour, lunch
included.
Day 6 (Thursday, August 18) Divers: Morning, two tank dive departs
boats, (afternoon
photo excursion optional). Non-Diver: Photo Excursion half day tour
with lunch included (pictures from this day will not be part of the
challenge due to judging
time restrictions). Evening party and display of EcoPhoto winning
images.
Day 7 (Friday, August 19) Morning - Leisure at Hilton Papagayo,
transfer to San Jose,
overnight at any of the participating hotels: Crowne Plaza, Ramada
Herradura or
Barcelo Palma Real. Optional extended stays and tours available at
Papagayo,
Arenal and/or any other destinations.
Day 8 (Saturday, August 20) Transfers to San Jose Airport.
For more information visit www.EcoWeekCostaRica.com, or email
EcoPhoto...@EcoWeekCostaRica.com.
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