The Place Our Seas Foundation is reminding underwater shutterbugs that the Marine Conservation Photographer of the twelve months opponents opens for entries on November 1st and closes on January seventh, 2023.
The conservation share of the opponents is backed by the Place Our Seas Foundation and is phase of the total Underwater Photographer of the twelve months opponents. The conservation contest is free to enter and affords money prizes for the principle, 2nd and third placed photos.
The Marine Conservation Photographer of the twelve months contest is initiate to every above-water and underwater photos. Photos must highlight a marine conservation sage or theme, with every sure and detrimental tales inspired. Freshwater themed conservation photos are also current.
Based on judges chair Alex Mustard:
“Noteworthy photos are ready to swap hearts, minds and attitudes. Conservation imagery is particularly significant from the oceans, which faces many threats from our actions. Nonetheless, these factors mostly happen unwitnessed, out of look of land or below the skin. This contest affords these precious photos a astronomical public platform.”
While Dr. James Lea, CEO of the Place Our Seas Foundation, mentioned:
“Photos possess a profound capability to affect how of us gape the field, and at SOSF we’re all about encouraging sure swap in how of us gape and work alongside with the marine environment. As such we’re pleased to accomplice with the Marine Conservation Photographer of the twelve months award, which is uniquely placed to focus on factors our oceans are going via and inspire swap.”
Earlier editions of the competition possess attracted entries from photographers around the field, gripping to scheme consideration to conservation factors, campaigns and success tales significant to them. The award was once most recently obtained by Thien Nguyen Ngoc from Vietnam, alongside with his aerial characterize “Big Scuttle for food.” The characterize shows boats straining the waters for anchovies within the Phu Yen province of his nation.
To post an entry for the opponents — be it Marine Conservation or anyone of the other categories — gallop to www.underwaterphotographeroftheyear.com.
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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving computer virus while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the set apart he earned his PADI Start Water Diver certification within the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Flee of Costa Rica, and other places together with a pool in Las Vegas helping to spoil the field document for the very most spicy underwater press conference.
