The Club welcomed Arthur Kingdon who gave a fascinating talk on a very passionate subject to him. Arthur took up diving in 1968 and was able to combine this with his love of photography. He firstly outlined the specialist equipment he used (primarily a Nikon D500 housed in a highly engineered and watertight aluminium housing) which also served as his first line of defence in the event of a marine animal becoming too inquisitive.  This was complimented by a fish eye lens and macro lens along with the vitally important flashguns to provide both illumination and help correct the colour balance due to the preferential red light absorption by the water which increased with diving depth.

He then shared an amazing collection of images taken at a number of locations around the globe spanning from Indonesia to the west coast of Canada with many diving sites in between. His images showed the amazing diversity of marine life ranging in size from minute coral polyps to massive sharks, along with highly coloured nudibranchs, expertly camouflaged marine life and intriguing and downright unusual fish.  After showing the marine life at a number of exotic locations, Arthur finished his talk with a series of images taken in UK waters to demonstrate that if you know what you are looking for then many photogenic examples can be found on our doorsteps (not literally!)

His work has been recognised with various awards and magazine front covers and his enthusiasm and encyclopaedic knowledge of marine life contributed to a first class presentation.