The outcomes of the 2021 Underbathwater Photographer of the Year competition were announced, with winning entries shot in lavatories across the arena from Basingstoke to Jakarta.
The competition, speed by UK dive equipment company Fourth Part, used to be conceived in 2020 right by the major coronavirus lockdown to give underwater shutterbugs an opportunity to withhold their pictures abilities honed and likewise to support the creativity of many who’re unable to fetch out of their homes to pursue their engrossing passions.
In retaining with Jim Standing, co-founding father of Fourth Element and originator of the premise for the competition:
“What started as a crazy idea, has swiftly grown to turn into something that has inspired some noteworthy creativity and in truth created queer photos shot right by a in point of fact sharp duration. The photos are unattainable and notify so many tales themselves, on the different hand it has been in particular rewarding to us to be taught most fascinating how important other folks loved having a distraction from these intervals of enforced isolation.”
The winning photos in the expert and amateur classes showcase diversified techniques and extremely diversified outcomes.
The winning amateur image shot by Barry McGill (above) is a grittier illustration of an underwater scene which vividly captures the pleasure and experience of diving in UK waters, while bringing a component of stress-free attributable to the usage of Lego toys.
The whimsical image shot by Mikko Paasi in the bathroom of a hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia right by quarantine facets young other folks’s modelling clay, hotel towels and the methodology of spinning the image by 180 degrees so that the outside of the water is re-imagined as the outside from above.
The competition had a total bunch of entries in classes that had COVID-themed requirements: Self (isolation) Portrait, Lockdown Lego, Zoom In (Macro – shut-up) alongside with Indoor Animal Conduct and Obvious/Negative (black and white).
The photos were judged by Alex Mustard, the organizer of the prestigious Underwater Photographer of the Year competition; Saeed Rashid, an award-winning photographer and lecturer in Digital Publishing at Bournemouth College; and Jim Standing.
Mustard, who shall be a winner of the prestigious Natural world Photographer of the Year award, talked about:
“All of us wanted some retailers right by the coronavirus pandemic. This competition gave some underwater photographers the opportunity to unleash their creativity, work on their abilities, in all likelihood familiarise themselves with fresh equipment, or merely maintain stress-free.”
The competition used to be organized by Fourth Part and supported by underwater imaging company Underwater Visions and digicam producer Paralenz.
Test out the total winners’ frosty photos here.