AIM Meeting Info Our meetings are normally held at 7:00PM (social time 6:30) the 4th Wednesday of the month. This month is an exception due to our Annual AIM Film Festival. There is No General Meeting this month. This month at AIM August August 26, 2012 AIM Calendar August is FILM FESTIVAL time at AIM and this one was a BLAST!!!! Read all about it on pages 4 6. Plus; see page 7 to get a mini-recap of the whale of a good time that was had on the Isla Mujares trip. Much more info to come on that trip. Business Meeting September 6 Announcements. General Meeting September 26 General Meeting October 24 Get out those magic markers and mark your calendars for December 8!! That s the date of the AIM Christmas Party. Some AIM members are scouting location possibilities. If you have a suggestion for a location..please let us know! Christmas Party December 8 Inside this issue: See you in September!! Don t forget the next AIM Business Meeting is Thursday, September 6 at Round Table Pizza. AIM Film Festival Recap 2 AIM Film Festival photo collages 3-6 September's General meeting is on Wednesday, September 26. AIM members have taken some incredible trips recently. One or two of those trips will be the subject of our September presentation. Plus.this is our first chance to check out the newly-redecorated meeting room!! Isla Mujares recap 7
AIM Festival Calendar Winners are: EVERYONE!! All 28 Images will be seen in AIM s 2013 Calendar TOP 3 Honors.. based on popular votes of those attending the event: Mike Johnson: Pygmy Seahorse From Dumaguete, Philippines Cover Honors to Mike Congrats! Dennis Wade s Anemone fish from Palau brought in the 2 nd highest votes Carol Herrlie s Coconut Octopus from Lembeh Straits, Indonesia with 3 rd highest votes All images will soon be on the website and will be shown at the September meeting and. will be in the 2013 Calendar sooner vs later Hoping to have.. a 15 month calendar ready by October Be prepared at the September meeting to order (hopefully pick up) your fresh off the press calendars. Price: to be determined. Other LARGE image honors go to: 4. Allen Geoffroy: cardinal fish, Indonesia 5. Mike Johnson: wonderpus, Dumaguete, PI 6. Holger Fuerst : juvenile garibaldi, Catalina, CA 7. Carol Herrlie: man s shrimp, Raja Ampat, Indo. 8. Art Hasel ne: lingcod, Dillon rock, BC, Canada 9. Dave Roper: ornate ghost pipefish, Dumaguete 10. Jan Casey: cu lefish, Philippines 11. Allen Geoffroy: black saddled toby, Bohol, PI 12 ( ed) Dennis Wade: white p shark, Roca Par ta, Revillagigedos Archipelago, Mexico and Tom Moorse: chromadoris nudibranchs, Palau, Micronesia 13. Dave Roper: juvenile frogfish, Dumaguete, PI 14. Ruth Chrofre : shrimp on bryosoan, Monterey 15. Kathy Moorse: manta ray, San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedos Archipelago, Mexico 16. Kenneth Mar n: octopus, Gulf of California 17. Marvin Zaske: lion fish, Cozumel, Mexico 18. Tom Moorse: hermit crab, Belize 19. Ruth Chofre : Ba ish Trio, Balayan Bay, PI 20. Lyn Schratz, splendid toadfish, Cozumel 21. Joe Herrlie: queen triggerfish, Bahamas 22. Marvin Zaske: hawksbill turtle, Cozumel 23. Ken Mar n: jawfish, Gulf of California 24. Jan Casey: crab, Philippines Honorable men ons: Holger Fuerst: anemone, Catalina Island Joe Herrlie: black grouper at cleaning sta on, Bahamas and Lyn Schratz, Angelfish, Cozumel 2
AIM s 10th Annual Film Festival Worker-bees are organizing, setting-up, slicing & dicing!! How Big????? 3
Guests are arriving and enjoying the ambiance! 4
Voting, raffle and video programs were great fun!! Let s see...blue Ticket... 5
Some of the winners. ~~~AIM Festival Photos courtesy of David Whiteside, Dennis Wade and Kathy Moorse 6
Had a Great time & Birthday in Isla Mujeres snorkeling with Whalesharks. On the first morning boat ride out, we came upon 6-8 Whalesharks having an early morning 'feeding' and blue open water. We were all let into the water at once and started our photographing and filming with them. There were so many at times together that you felt like you were going to be 'rammed' by one, or you couldn't get your camera ready fast enough for the others. Sometimes you couldn't avoid a little contact with one, especially when the huge tail fin was coming at you with its gentle swaying motion after passing just inches by. The next day we had larger swells, blue water and 3-4 Whalesharks, it was a little more difficult to spot them in the swells. We had some wonderful 'live' music entertainment and a fire dancer show one night, relaxing 'mediating' music for our morning breakfast (1hr to get toast and coffee, no bacon!, no potatoes!!) and we had to stop for 'the coldest beer in town, that it will hurt your teeth'! (NOT!) and a golf cart adventure of the island that was really something to experience and feel!! A GREAT time, with GREAT food GREAT adventures and GREAT pictures... THANKS Carol for putting the trip together!! Dave Roper Recaps Isla Mujeres Dave Whaleshark encounters.. incredible on Isla Mujere s outing...image by Joe Herrlie Carol captures video (right) as Duncan (left) takes wide-angle image as Art (center) is about to be sucked into the mouth of.. Jonah. Close encounters were.many. This one did a tail standing-like behavior for quite a while allowing all of us to circle the gentle giant from all angles. Our sightings were.many close interactions unavoidable and the number of images.. to follow. LOTS of great images to share. 7