LAUPS: The Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society

Judy shoots an Olympus 5050 in an Olympus housing, with an Ikelite DS125 strobe on a manual slave controller, after using a collection of Nikonos cameras.

Roger Carlson
Your humble webmaster, my day job is building a telescope.

I mainly shoot an Olympus 5050 in an Olympus housing, with dual Ikelite DS125 strobes on manual EV controllers, after using a collection of Nikonos cameras and an Olympus 3040 in an L&M Tetra housing. I also shoot an Olympus E1, but only housed it temporarily.

Scott Gietler
Scott moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2003, got certified, as has done 2-3 dives a week ever since. His favorite places to dive are Bali, La Bufadora and Malibu. He will be getting married in Singapore in 2007 to his favorite dive buddy Penny, and works for a hedge fund when he's not underwater. Scott also runs the web site www.ladiving.org.

Scott shoots with a Fuji F-10 and a Fantasea Strobe.

Randy Harwood
Randy Harwood has been SCUBA diving since 1975 and has been photographing the marine environment for over 20 years. Diving all over the world, he has visited Mexico and Latin American, many of the islands in the Caribbean , Hawaii, Fiji, Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Republic of the Maldives, French Polynesia, the Phillipines, Africa and Australia. He regularly dives in California and still considers the kelp forests of California a favorite dive destination.

Active in the Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society for over 20 years, he has served as the Society President for almost 8 years.

Randy’s “Underwater World” calendar has been in continuous publication since 1986. He has contributed numerous photographs and articles to books, advertising media and magazines, including “Outdoor Photographer”, “SCUBA World”, Rodales “SCUBA Diving”, “Outdoor California” and many more. Randy's day job is as a dentist in the South Bay.

Randy shoots a Nikon D200 in a Nexus housing, and formerly used a Nikonos RS.

Jim Lyle
Jim is a retired chemistry professor, can ID any fish, and has the lowest air consumption of any known mammal.

Jim shoots an Olympus E-330 in an Ikelite housing, with dual Ikelite DS125 strobes, after having taken an Olympus 5050 and an Ikelite Aquashot on hundreds of dives and around the world. Jim has the Olympus 7-14mm, 14-54mm, and Sigma 100mm macro lenses.

Walter Marti
I'm pretty sure Walter shoots video, because the pictures at that link move.

Matt Segal
Matt is a student at USC, but can teach us all something about underwater photography.

Matt shoots a Canon 20D in an Ikelite eTTL2 housing, with Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, 60mm, 10-22mm, and 18-55mm lenses, and two Ikelite DS-125 strobes.

Frank M. Virga
Frank is a veterinarian and PADI certified Assistant instructor who has been diving the waters of the channel islands since 1969. Frank began underwater imaging with video photography and then moved exclusivley to still photography with the acquisition of a Light and Motion Tetra housing for the Olympus 3030 camera.

Currently Frank's equipment consists of a Light and Motion Titan housing, Nikon D100 Digital SLR and dual Sea & Sea YS90DX strobes. Lenses for the Nikon D100 include Nikkor 60mm Micro, Nikkor 12-24mm wide angle, Sigma 28-80mm, Sigma 80-300mm.

Carol Yin
Carol & Bruiser strive to violate airline carry-on luggage weight restrictions around the world. Bruiser is a Canon 5D in a Sea & Sea housing, with dual Ikelite DS -125 strobes on 2 x 2 x 12" ULCS super buoyancy arms. Carol is a consultant, helping electric utilities evaluate their energy efficiency programs.