THE OCEAN ART UNDERWATER FOTO COMPETITION is organised each year by the influential online. Onderwater Fotografie Guide en de onlangs aangekondigde winnaars van 2015 vertegenwoordigen inzendingen uit meer dan 50 landen.
OCEAAN KUNST reckons it may offer the biggest “prize purse” of any single underwater foto competition, with more than $70,000-worth of prizes awarded to 75 photographers competing in 15 categories, the outright winners of which are all shown here.
Duizenden inzendingen werden bekeken door de jury van vooraanstaande fotografen – de Britse Martin Edge, Marty Snyderman, Tony Wu en Onderwater Fotografie Guide’s Scott Gietler – voordat de laatste set werd uitgeroepen tot “enkele van de beste onderwaterfoto’s ter wereld”.
Best of Show was a foto of a larval-stage eel photographed at night off the Hawaiian coast. “I was on a blackwater dive with a member of the Roddenberry family (of Star Trek fame) watching a parade of underwater aliens drift past when this larval cusk eel swam by,” said photographer Jeff Milisen.
“De uitwendige maag helpt de zich ontwikkelende vis zo snel mogelijk te groeien door elke maaltijd tot het laatste beetje voeding te onttrekken.
“Van de vier duikers onder water hadden we meer dan 1000 zwartwaterduiken achter de rug en niemand van ons had ooit zoiets gezien, of het nu op aarde was of ergens anders naartoe ging!”
De Onderwater Fotografie Guide is based in Californië. Find more about the back-stories to these and other pictures, the prizes and how to enter the 2016 competition at Website met gids voor onderwaterfotografie.
1: MACRO & BEST OF SHOW
Jeff Milisen, Feeling Exposed (Cusk eel, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii). Canon T1i, Canon 60mm lens, Ikelite housing, dual Ikelite DS-51 substrobes, f13, 1/125, ISO 200.
2: GROOTHOEK
Francesco Visintin, The Satellite (Rhizostoma pulmo jellyfish, Forte dei Marmi, Tuscany, Italy). Nikon D7000, Tokina 10-17 lens @10mm (1/320s f 18 100 ISO) Isotta housing, two Ikelite SS200 strobes.
3: KOUD WATER
Lill Haugen, Anemone Light (Bolocera tuediae anemone & Spirontocarus liljeborgi red shrimps, Oslo Fjord, Norway). Nikon D300, Nikon fisheye 10.5mm lens, Ikelite DS160 strobe, Triggerfish remote slave sensor connected to Inon Z240 strobe.
4: NOVICE DSLR
Irene Middleton, Panic Puffer School (Arothron firmamentum starry toado pufferfish, Maroro Bay, Poor Knights Island Marine Reserve, Northland New Zealand). Nikon D300, Sealux housing, Tokina 10-17mm fisheye lens, Ikelite D125 strobe & DS50 on slave.
5: PORTRET
Greg LeCoeur, Grindwalvissen (Nice, Frankrijk). Nikon D7000, Tokina 10-17 mm visoog.
6: GEDRAG VAN HET MARIENE LEVEN
Steven Kovacs, Egg Release (Striated frogfish, Blue Heron Bridge, Lake Worth Lagoon, Riviera Beach, Florida, USA). Nikon D7000, Nikon 105mm lens, Ikelite housing, two Ikelite DS160 strobes, 1/250 sec at f/18.
7: COMPACTE MACRO
Alessandro Raho, The Fluorescent Cerianthus (Noli, Italy). Canon G16, Isotta housing, two YS-D1 strobes. Yellow filter on, taken during daytime.
8: COMPACT GEDRAG VOOR HET MARIENE LEVEN
Jack Berthomier, snelle aanval van een Tylosorus crocodilus op een juveniele Kyphosus vaigiensis (Ouemo Bay, Noumea, Nieuw-Caledonië). Sony RX100, Nauticam-behuizing, interne flitser. f 7.1, 1/1000, ISO 200.
9: COMPACTE GROOTHOEK
Brian Christiansen, Cetaceclipse (Dolfijn, Deshaies, Guadeloupe). OlympusTG-3.
10: SUPERMACRO
So Yat Wai, Skeleton Shrimp (Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia). Canon 5D MkIII, Sea & Sea housing, Canon 100mm macro lens, SMC, dual Inon z240 strobes, Light & Motion Foto 800 focus light.
11: NUDIBRANCHS
Roland Bach, Sunny Day (Felimare picta, Punta den Siulet, Menorca). Nikon D300, 10.5mm fisheye 1.4x TC, Sealux housing, Nikon SB900 strobe.
12: ZWEMBADCONCEPTUEEL
Francesco Pacienza, The Painter of the Sea (Santa Maria al Bagno, Salento, Apulia, Italy). Nikon D7100, Tokina 10-17 fisheye lens, Easydive LEO3 housing, two Sea & Sea D1 strobes, Nikonos SB105 with Bank diffuser.
13: SPIEGELLOOS GEDRAG
Walter Bassi, Dad and Her Eggs (Seahorse, Capo Noli, Liguria Sea, Italy). Olympus EP1 mirrorless, Olympus EPT 01-60 housing, Olympus macro lens, two Sea & Sea YS-110 Alpha strobes.
14: SPIEGELLOZE MACRO
Simon Chiu, Shyness (Filefish, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines). Panasonic GF1, Panasonic 45mm lens, two Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes, FIT(10), FIT(5).
15: SPIEGELLOZE GROOTHOEK
Matthew Sullivan, Wood Turtle (Bridge Waterfall, Pennsylvania, USA) Sony A6000, Nauticam housing, Zeiss 12mm lens, dual Sea & Sea YS-01 strobes.
