Pac NW/Cold Water photos and videos for education?

[JTilling]

Greetings all-- I'm an instructor on a mission. You know how the open water books and presentations have hundreds of pictures of nice happy divers in their bathing suits getting ready to jump off of their tropical dive boat? I hate that. I'm changing my NAUI O/W class to better reflect diving around here, so I'm looking for photos and videos of Pacific Northwest/general cold water diving to include in the shows.

I'm afraid that I can't pay for them, but would any of you accomplished photographers and videographers be willing to have your art included in an Open Water class for the joy of new divers everywhere? I will of course give you full art credit whenever your stuff is displayed.

Thanks to all--
Jeff

 

[Ben_ca]

I'm sure some of those PNW DIR guys can show you some nifty OOA drills....

 

[Rogue_Diver]

We have cold water diving in California.

 

[Monkey Knife-fight]

I've got some diver shots from Monterey in my gallery. And some more i haven't put up yet.

More here: http://chrissyt.smugmug.com/Monterey
Diver shots are mixed in with all the others.

Not sure what you're after but if you want to use any in my gallery just let me know.

Chris

 

[fpoole]

Hmm... I could probably spend all day looking for stuff.
but you might find something over here:
http://www.psdivers.com/photopost/
and
http://www.poolesdive.com/pages/sites.html
or gallerys...
it's a mixed bag of above and UW PNW diving
Hope that helps, please let me know if you are looking for a particular shot..
good luck eh??

 

[BurBunny]

There's an extremely accomplished photographer and artist over on Digital Diver (www.digitaldiver.net) by the name of Honza who does gorgeous combination photos/artwork depicting the critter life. You might want to contact him and see if he would be interested. Even if he's not, his work is worth a trip over there. Just go to Show Off forum and search down for any post started by him.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Clinton Bauder (metridium.com) just posted his images from British Columbia a couple days ago. They make me wish I was there now.
http://www.baue.org/images/galleries/album64