Underwater shutterbugs who want to submit photography for the Ocean Pictures Awards will must lumber — the slash-off date for submissions is July 31st, 2021.
It’s time to glean sorting by these laborious drives and grasp your entries for this yr’s awards. And undergo in solutions, photos don’t relish to be original, they actual can’t relish received another award. That’s ethical – your pre-pandemic photos are eligible.
The Ocean Pictures Awards relish a uncomplicated mission: to shine a steady on the fantastic thing about the ocean and the threats it faces, all while raising money for its security.
The awards are an opportunity for all ocean photographers – divers, surfers and sailors alike – to part their art with the realm. In 2020, a success photos had been shared with greater than 500 million of us.
This yr’s submissions will as soon as extra be judged by a panel of one of the realm’s leading ocean photographers, in conjunction with Global Pictures Corridor of Reputation inductee Paul Nicklen, Cristina Mittermeier and Emmy Award-a success cinematographer Shawn Heinrichs.
Six categories will be judged, with the winner of every and each category awarded a preference of prizes. Loads of profession-changing opportunities are also on offer, in conjunction with a one-yr residency of the SeaLegacy Collective. The prizes on offer are valued at greater than £500,000/~US$691,200/~€585,555.
There is also a utterly different award this yr: the Female Fifty Fathoms Awards. Which female ocean photographer most inspires you? Nominate her for the FFF Award!
Winners, in conjunction with the overall winner, will be announced in September. A London exhibition will observe, where all a success photography will be acquire on public point to. The exhibition will be free to keep in touch over with.
For extra knowledge, lag to www.oceanographicmagazine.com/opa.
(Featured listing credit rating: 2020 Ocean Adventure Photographer of the Year finalist Sean Scott)
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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first purchased the diving worm while in Excessive College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Commence Water Diver certification within the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Drift of Costa Rica, and utterly different locations in conjunction with a pool in Las Vegas serving to to damage the realm file for the ideal underwater press conference.
