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Lawson Wood offers photo tips at GO Diving Show

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Renowned underwater photographer Lawson Wood will be offering some sage advice on starting out as an underwater shooter at the GO Diving Show in March.

Lawson will be on the Inspiration / Photo Stage from 2.30pm-3.15pm on Saturday 4 March, discussing beginner options, including when you should start to think about editing images.

Lawson Wood is from Eyemouth in Scotland and has been scuba diving since 1965. Now with over 16,000 dives logged in all of the world’s oceans, he is the author and co-author of over 50 books, mainly on our underwater world.

He made photographic history by becoming a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the British Institute of Professional Photographers solely for underwater photography. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Lawson is the founder of the first marine reserve in Scotland and a co-founder of the Marine Conservation Society (Member #6).

Lawson Wood
Lawson Wood has logged over 16,000 dives around the world

Inspiration / Photo Stage speakers

Saturday 4 March

10.30am-11.15am – PHOTO Byron Conroy – Underwater photography in Iceland – it’s not just Silfra!

11.30am-12.15pm – INSPIRATION Madison Bowden-Parry – Society and the sea

12.30pm-1.15pm – PHOTO Stuart Philpott – Underwater photography in the Maldives

1.30pm-2.15pm – INSPIRATION Tiffany Geer – Grenada, wreck-diving capital of the Caribbean

2.30pm-3.15pm – PHOTO Lawson Wood – Starting out – and when should I edit?

3.30pm-4.15pm – INSPIRATION Nick Lyon – The Hannah Brookes Lecture – Celebrating the fun in diving

Sunday 5 March

10.30am-11.15am – INSPIRATION Steve Lewis – What to look for in a dive centre

11.30am-12.15pm – PHOTO Anne and Phil Medcalf – The Peaks and Pitfalls of Learning Underwater Photography

12.30pm-1.15pm – INSPIRATION Jake Davies – Sharks off the Welsh coast

1.30pm-2.15pm – PHOTO Stuart Philpott – Shooting wrecks in Cyprus

2.30pm-3.15pm – INSPIRATION Grace Westgarth and Rada Pandeva – World Ocean Day

GO Diving Show – tickets now available!

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The GO Diving Show in 2023 is partnered with Seiko Prospex

Tickets are now available for the GO Diving Show, partnered with Seiko Prospex, which is on 4-5 March 2023 and is once again taking place at the NAEC Stoneleigh, on Stoneleigh Park, slap-bang in the middle of England. Tickets are £15 per person, and group discounts are available, so rustle up your dive club or dive centre members and plan a great day out to kickstart the UK season. Remember, complimentary parking is included in your ticket price!

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Scuba Diver's Editorial Director Mark Evans has been in the diving industry for nearly 25 years, and has been diving since he was just 12 years old. nearly 40-odd years later and he is still addicted to the underwater world.
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