Escape to Fiji!

Join us at 7pm at on Tuesday evening, January 20, 2009 for a wonderful slide show featuring Underwater Photography from the Fiji Islands. Our presenter is Ralph "Larry" Oberlander a Dover resident whose familiarity with the marine environment was nurtured off the NH coast.

Mr. Oberlander is an award-winning photographer specializing in marine images and his native New England. His work has been recognized at numerous national and international competitions and his photos have appeared in such magazines as Skin Diver, Rodale's Scuba Diving, Underwater USA, and Islands, as well as many books and national ads.

First certified to dive in 1969 - the same year he went to Woodstock with his brother and friends - Ralph Oberlander took up underwater photography in the 70's. Those first efforts with a Nikonos camera provided the leverage that would drive him to become an accomplished underwater photographer. He has since traveled throughout the Caribbean, Red Sea, Hawaii, Fiji, Philippines, New England and Atlantic Canada in search of those places of his youthful imagination. He has discovered and photographed many of them. When not diving with the seals off the Isles of Shoals or with the tiger sharks in the Bahamas, Ralph lives in Dover NH with his wife Millie and their three children.

This library program is free to all and is sponsored by the Friends of the Dover Public Library!