Organizers of the 11th annual Ocean Art Underwater Characterize Competition have equipped they are now accepting entries thru November 30, 2022.
This yr’s competition facets over US$100,000 (~€102,710) in prizes. The competition attracts newbie to pro photographers all the strategy thru the globe. Fourteen classes, including a brand contemporary cell telephone category, impact obvious all photograph disciplines and cameras compete moderately, whereas the 50+ winning photos form a portfolio of the most tantalizing underwater photos of the yr.
Big prizes embody:
Liveaboard dive cruise on the M.Y. Oceanic in Komodo, Flores, Alor, or the Banda Sea;
Liveaboard dive cruise on the S.M.Y. Ondina in Raja Ampat, North Banda Sea, Triton Bay, Halmahera, or Cenderawasih Bay;
Sequence of 7 or 8 nights for 2 aboard the Coralia in Raja Ampat or Komodo;
14-evening dive package deal on the contemporary White Sands Beach Resort in Lembeh with Eco Divers;
A day out on any Indonesian Damai liveaboard with Dive Damai;
A day out to Malpelo aboard the Ferox liveaboard with Colombia Dive Adventures;
A 7-evening dwell for 2 in Papua Fresh Guinea with Wilindi Plantation Resort;
A 7-day, 16-dive adventure in Raja Ampat with Meridian Adventure;
Per week-lengthy liveaboard day out to Cuba with Avalon Birth air;
A dive day out for 2 on the Carpe Novo within the Maldives with Carpe Diem Cruises;
An 8-evening, all-inclusive dive package deal in Bohol, Philippines with Magic Oceans Dive Resort;
A 14 evening dive package deal in Raja Ampat, Indonesia at Kri Eco resort with Papua Diving Inns;
A 9-day day out to the Socorro Islands aboard Pelagic Mercurial’s Solmar V Liveaboard; and
A diversity of reward certificates from Bluewater Characterize and Bluewater Lumber.
There are furthermore a total bunch of Top payment Lumber to boot as Gear prizes to be won.
Essentially the most in vogue category is for cellphones, in maintaining with competition organizers:
“Most in vogue traits in smartphone abilities and affordable smartphone housings have enabled a bigger share of most of the oldsters to capture astonishing underwater art.”
The tip classes embody Vast Perspective, Macro, Marine Lifestyles Habits and three corresponding compact digicam classes, giving underwater photographers of all ranges of venture to capture a prize. Spellbinding classes embody Sunless & White, Marine Lifestyles Portrait, Frosty/Temperate Water, Blackwater, Underwater Conservation and Nudibranchs. The Underwater Art category encourages creativity in put up-processing.
Winners from every category will probably be in a location to defective the prizes they’d esteem to receive, making it extra probably that every winner will receive a prize they desire.
Judges embody world-well-known underwater photographers Tony Wu, Marty Snyderman, Mark Strickland and Scott Gietler.
Photos needs to be submitted earlier than the cut-off date of 23: 59pm US Pacific Time on November 30, 2022.
More recordsdata might per chance also be learned on the Ocean Art Characterize Competition page at uwphotographyguide.com/ocean-art.
