Learn Beginner to Intermediate Underwater Photography at Diamond Diving with INON UK’s Steve Warren

INON UK’s Steve Warren, co-designer of the INON UK Level One Underwater Photography Course, will be teaching the program exclusively at Diamond Diving on the Cote D’Azur in May. Steve will be running two courses, the first on 2^nd and 3^rd of May and the second on the 4^th and 5^th. Running the course over two days keeps it laid back and allows plenty of individual attention.

The INON UK Level One Underwater Photography Course is designed to fast track divers with limited experience of photography on land or underwater to early success.  The course provides the knowledge, practical skills and hands – on experience to remove the element of luck from underwater photography and help the diver consistently achieve pleasing pictures. The INON UK Level One Underwater Photography Course recognises that underwater photography is not a diving specialty, but a photographic one. Over six theory sessions, four photo dives and extensive debriefs of each students achievements, Steve will demystify taking pictures under the water. Students will learn wide – angle and close up techniques, how to use flash to achieve even and backscatter free images and a few creative lighting skills as well.

The INON UK Level One Underwater Beginners to Intermediate Underwater Photography Course is the first to be endorsed by a leading manufacturer of underwater camera equipment. This is how Gavin Parsons desribed the course for   “Diver Magazine.’ I’VE BEEN A PHOTOGRAPHER since I was 11 and a professional photographer both on land and under water since 1994. 
I have seen quite a few underwater photography courses for compact camera users, and while I would hate this review to end up sounding like an ad, I believe this is the most professional, intelligent and well thought-out I have come across so far”.

Steve rarely runs Level One Courses himself these days, so this is a rare opportunity to learn from the co-designer. With extensive media credits gained since 1994, including filming underwater for BBC and ITV shows, an extensive back catalogue of magazine articles and project managing a number of dive books, Steve is well regarded in underwater photography circles.  He is a contributing author to Martin Edge’s  ‘The Underwater Photographer’, considered the best manual for underwater photographers and co – founded the “Visions in the Sea’ underwater photography conferences. Steve will be teaching underwater using his trademark radiophones to ensure each student gets plenty of personal coaching during the photo dives. Maximum class size is four.

For more details, please contact Alex Diamond.

We had a great write up in the February issue of Sport Diver magazine in the UK.  For those of you considering doing a course or some fun diving with us, this really gives a good and faithful insight into the diving with us on the Cote d’Azur.  The article was the second in a series of articles called « Wining & Diving » was put together by Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown, and the latest installment, just out, talks about California with a great cover photo by Nick of Caroline in one of the famous kelp forests.

Wining & Diving France Sport Diver Feb 2014

To see more of the great work that Nick and Caroline do please click here to visit their excellent website.

What a season, first year as a 5*IDC Resort….

So, mid October, and despite the continuing outstanding diving conditions, the season is almost done.  This has been a great year for Diamond Diving and we’d like to pass on a big thank you to all of our clients for their loyalty and passion for diving that contribute to enabling the business to grow and develop.  And of course a massive credit to Romain and a number of dedicated interns (Joanne, Katie, Nicolas, Jonathan & Neil) for helping make 2013 such a success.

The ProShop has been a good introduction and we urge all of you to consider the series of offers we have put together for Christmas, some great deals on excellent quality dive gear from one of the world’s most prestigious equipment manufacturers : Aqualung. Everything must go!

We’re not done yet…another PADI Instructor course for late October and early November, and a fabulous weekend to La Londe Les Maures to dive the awesome Parc National de Port Cros.

Plus as some of you are aware we are in the early stages of putting together a liveaboard trip to the Maldives in Winter 2015.  This one is going to be very very special, so if you’d like more details please let us know.

2014 promises more interesting developments with your favourite South of France PADI Instructor Development dive centre…keep an eye on our Facebook page for more news…

All the best for now,

Alex, Nono & the team.

Lots going on at Diamond Diving at the moment.

On the 7th May we have a full Open Water Course starting for which there remains one place.

On the 12th May we have a Project Aware underwater cleanup at one of our most frequently used confined water training sites off the Cap d’Antibes.  This is nearly full but there is a standby list in case anyone drops out so please let us know if you are interested. We highly recommend all divers to create their own My Ocean account on the Project Aware website at www.projectaware.org.  Here you can also download for free the excellent book Our World, Our Water which has a wealth of information on the world’s seas and oceans.

There is an Open Water Referral (for those who have already completed theory and confined water training elsewhere) running on the 15th and 16th of May and we have two spaces left.    

Two places are still up for grabs for the Discover REBREATHERS day we are running in conjunction with Jean-Francois Andre of HippoConsulting.  For €80 you get one of the best known techincal diving instructors in France supervising and guiding an introductory experience at a 2:1 ratio with roughly 25 minutes in the water.  Let us know if you would like to participate.

On the Instructor Development side of things we have an IDC running from 27th May to 7th June with the exam in Cannes on the 8th and 9th of June. We have a couple of places still, so let us know if you are interested,

We also have a full 10 day intensive DiveMaster course running from 25th May to 4th June.

We are also really pleased to annouce that are Aqualung ProShop is now open for business so we can help you with all of your equipment purchase needs.

The water is warming up nicely and the great weather is on it’s way so we look forwards to seeing you in the South of France soon.