Renee Capozzola from the United States has been named the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the one year.
Capozzola’s a hit image (witness above) featured blacktip reef sharks cruising under sea gulls at sunset in French Polynesia. She is the first female photographer to be named overall winner of the present world pictures contest.
Higher than 4500 underwater pictures were entered by underwater photographers from 68 countries across the arena.
To shoot “Sharks’ Skylight,” Capozzola travelled from her dwelling in California, out across the Pacific Ocean, to the diminutive island of Moorea in August 2020. She outlined:
“French Polynesia strongly protects its sharks, it’s my favourite living to photo them. I dedicated several evenings to photographing within the shallows at sunset, and I became once at final rewarded with this scene: glass-aloof water, a properly off sunset, sharks and even birds.”
Chair of the competitors judges, Dr Alexander Mustard MBE, talked about of the a hit image:
“Right here is a photo of hope, a undercover agent of how the ocean might well also be when we give it of enterprise, thriving with spectacular existence both below and above the bottom. The photographer no longer finest persevered till this serendipitous scene unfolded, but more importantly Renee had the flexibility to take this true moment. The elegant lighting is sympathetic, however the image is made by the class of the composition as sharks, sunset and seabirds fleetingly converge. Judging this one year’s competitors became once a pleasure, a mighty-wanted ruin out into the underwater world, I am hoping all people enjoys immersing themselves in these unbelievable pictures.”
The Underwater Photographer of the one year contest is essentially based entirely mostly within the UK, and Impress Kirkland from Glasgow, Scotland became once named as British Underwater Photographer of the one year 2021 for his interior-city natural world imaginative and prescient “While You Are Drowsing” taken cease to his dwelling, in early March 2020.
Kirkland talked about:
“This little muddy pond is an no longer seemingly haven for natural world, squeezed between a housing estate, supermarket and factory. However for about a nights once a year, while the city sleeps, it comes alive with frogs. This frame became once the fruits of 25 hours over 4 iciness nights of lying stationary in darkness. Used to be it time properly spent? Fully!”
Mustard commented on Kirkland’s describe:
“This unparalleled image shows that even within the centre of the city of Glasgow, frogs and world class underwater pictures can thrive.”
Karim Iliya from the United States became once named Marine Conservation Photographer of the one year 2021 for his graphic describe “Crowded Island” representing over-population and the flexibility it exerts on the sea, with an aerial look of a little island in Panama. This category is delivery to both underwater and above water pictures highlighting conservation disorders within the ocean, this is the first time an above water describe has triumphed.
In step with Iliya:
“This densely inhabited village is a visual microcosm, a reminder of how people across the planet are over-racy dwelling. Our relationship with nature and the importance of protecting it becomes very apparent can comprise to you stare at our species from above and witness how we monopolize dwelling, forcing nature out.”
The Underwater Photographer of the one year competitors additionally aims to promote original photographic skill. SJ Alice Bennett, from the UK, but living in Mexico, became once named as Up & Coming Underwater Photographer of the one year 2021 for a cultured describe of divers exploring a cave. Her image “Tying In” has a up to the moment if truth be told feel and depends on both evolved scuba diving and photographic ways.
Bennett talked about:
“This describe became once shot became once taken at some stage in cave coaching. The 2 divers are followed closely by lighting assistants rising the reasonably halo outcomes that protect them out from the darkness.”
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