The 7th Angkor Photo Festival will take place in Siem Reap from 19 to 26 November 2011.

Created in 2005, the Angkor Photo Festival is the first photography festival to be held in Southeast Asia. Each year the weeklong event features exhibitions and outdoor slideshows by celebrated and emerging photographers in Siem Reap.

The strong educational goals of the Angkor Photo Festival sets it apart from other photography events. At the free Angkor Photo Workshops, renowned photographers tutor emerging Asian photographers, while the festival operates its own outreach program, the Anjali Children’s Photo Workshops.

More about the festival here.

Calling filmmakers, photographers & journalists to the biggest underwater imagery festival in the Asia Pacific!

Dust off your cameras and take to the water with 5 Star IDC Centre Thalassa, located in the heart of Bunaken National Park. CTS participants get a head start in the Shoot Out competition with our special 5-day unlimited diving package. Literally dive till you drop in Bunaken, Bangka and the Lembeh Strait. With sites only 5 minutes away by boat, you can get trigger happy as and when you please. So why wait? Get your chance to win the festival’s top award along with a cash prize of USD 3500.

* Camera rinse tanks and electrical charge points onboard custom-made dive boats
* Imaging facilities for video capture and image processing
* Specialist photographic dive guides
* Boat charters

5 nights Deluxe room in Seaside Resort Santika
5 days Unlimited Diving with Thalassa, incl. use of tanks, weights, towels and lunch with the dive centre Daily breakfast + Airport transfers

Package for 2 : USD775
Package for 1 : USD1,045
Extension 1 Night + 3 Dives (for 2) : USD160
Extension 1 Night + 3 Dives (for 1) : USD190

Contact Symbiosis Custom Travel for full details

In association with the World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Le Festival Mondial de l’Image Sous-Marine – Marseille 2010, Ocean Geographic, DIVER magazine (Canada), Action Asia (HK), X Ray Mag (Scandinavia), Duiken (Holland), Tauchen (Germany), AQUA (Italy), Plongee (France), Neptune (Russia), DIVE (UK) and Scuba Diver Australia

Borneo has amazing birdlife, and the inaugural Sabah Birdwatching Festival would be a great opportunity to learn something about them.

Contact Symbiosis Expedition Planning about making a trip to attend the show next month and perhaps trekking into the forests to look for some birds yourself!

See poster below:

We have had some additional places open up on some of our tours for the 2010 Mount Hagen Cultural Festival in August this year.

This is a highly sought after Papua New Guinea experience – the famous Mount Hagen Cultural festival. A must for people interested in photographing people.

In addition to attending this colourful event, the tour also includes stays at the stunning Ambua Lodge, high up in the Southern Highlands, overlooking the Tari basin (home to the Huli Wigmen) and to Karawari Lodge, deep in the Sepik basin, plus a Sepik River cruise aboard the Sepik Spirit.

Full tour details here.