Jules Terrado-Acosta
For Jules, the most fulfilling dives are
those when she has captured with her camera the vibrant and exciting life
underwater as seen with her own eyes--it has always been extremely satisfying
for her to be able to share and make her viewers wonder in awe that there could
be such beauty at the bottom of the sea.
She began diving in late 2006 when she met
PADI dive instructor and now husband Jan Acosta. She continued her training through the years
and is now a PADI dive master.
Jules almost immediately got hooked with
underwater photography, starting with a Canon point and shoot camera. In 2009, she switched to a Canon dSLR camera
on Hugyfot housing with Inon strobes. She’s into macro photography and she loves
using a snoot in her shots. Lately,
she’s been trying her hand on wide angle photography which proves to be very
challenging for her. Some of her photos
have already been featured in exhibits and used in advertising and tourism
campaigns.
Along with other underwater photographer
friends, she co-founded in the Philippines the Network of Underwater Digital
Imagers Inc. (NUDI), a non-stock non-profit corporation that aims to promote
underwater photography and videography in support of environmental
consciousness and conservation. She is
currently sits at the Board of Trustees and is the organization’s Corporate
Secretary.
Jules also recently joined friends and
hubby to open Studio H20 that offers to anyone adventurous enough an underwater
canvass in creating unique works.
She may be busy lawyering for an energy
company in Manila, but she manages to get her feet wet whenever she can, may it
be in nearby Anilao and Puerto Galera, or farther south in Cebu, Bohol, Dauin,
and Tubbataha. And when she’s lucky to
get a long break, she’d find herself packing her dive and camera gear heading
for dive sites around the Asia-Pacific Region and Caribbean Islands.
