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MACRO CATEGORY
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NAME: NAVAPAN JANJARASSKUL
COUNTRY: THAILAND
PRIZE: ATLANTIS DIVE RESORTS & LIVEABOARDS
CAPTION: Lembeh straits, Indonesia – Coconut octopus The coconut octopus happens to release its babies while i came across it. The babies look like tiny krakens from story book.
MACRO CATEGORY
2ND PRIZE
NAME : GAETANO GARGIULO
COUNTRY : ITALY
TITLE: Mommy will keep an eye on you
CAPTION :Australia – blenny guarding the eggs – Mommy will keep an eye on you Sabre tooth blenny love discarded bottles to nest. In the picture one fish was guarding the eggs laid inside an old discarded wine bottle.
WIDE ANGLE CATEGORY
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NAME: GINO SYMUS
COUNTRY: BELGIUM
TITLE: Mating toads
CAPTION: Belgium – Turnhout
During several weeks in March, lots of toads come together to mate, a unique spectacle to see
WIDE ANGLE CATEGORY
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NAME: MIGUEL RAMIREZ
COUNTRY: REUNION
TITLE: Free in my world!
CAPTION: Reunion island – St Gilles – Dolphins.
School of dolphins off Reunion island. They swim freely, in calm water that reflects their shapes.
PORTFOLIO CATEGORY
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NAME: DELBOS YANNICK
COUNTRY: FRANCE
CAPTION:
Title: “Fly on Air Turtle”
Green turtle, Mayotte island, N’Gouja beach.
Photography taken on sunset (free diving), symbiosis between a pilot fish and a turtle.
Title: “Infernal spiral”
Sardine Run, Philipina, Moalboal.
Popular Moalboal Sardine Giant Bench.
Title: “Back to the surface”
Humpback whales, Reunion island, Saint Paul
In winter, some humpback whales come to give birth around Reunion island (Indian ocean). (taken in free diving) His mother guides him in his first days of life.
Title: “The ocean’s tears”
Parrot fish, Reunion Island, Etang Salé (petit tombant)
Super macro of a parrotfish. Human face with tears on the cheek. Sadness of an ocean that empties day after day.
PORTFOLIO CATEGORY
2ND PRIZE
NAME: TRACEY JENNINGS
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
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TITLE: “Exploration”
Cathedral, Solomon Islands
Exploring the carbonate caverns of the Solomon Islands.
TITLE: “Uncommon Common”
Lionfish, Seraya Secrets, Bali
Who remembers when they first saw a lionfish? Wow what an amazing fish. My aim of my photography is to entice non-divers to dive and care about our oceans. Hence I often focus on those fish that are fascinating whether rare or common. I used a Retra LSD for this image.
TITLE: “Angel wings”
Feather duster worm, Dumaguette, Philippines
Sometimes the simple can be so beautiful I used a small depth of field to focus on the delicate nature of the worm. Not so easy as the worms tend to retract as a diver approaches. The image reminds me of an angels wings.
TITLE: “Sundancer”
Whaleshark, Papua, Indonesia
A whaleshark enjoys the beautiful blue water of West Papua. If you look carefully you can see a second shark to the extremity.
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NAME: CHONG WAN YONG
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
TITLE: Guardian in lacy palace
CAPTION: Ambon- bubble point – bryozoan goby with eggs.
The bryozoan goby is the goby which only stays inside white lacy coral and lays eggs inside, it’s easy for them to guard their eggs since it’s hard for predator to get inside.
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NAME: LOW SOOK WEI
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
PRIZE: THALASSA MANADO – FREE DIVING COURSE
TITLE: Goby Anilao
CAPTION: Goby Fish in the bottle taken in Anilao. Curiously, the Goby family is looking at the visitors of their home.
CREATIVE CATEGORY
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NAME: PIETRO CREMONE
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: Sepia Nebula
CAPTION: I imagined this cuttlefish like being an alien monster, coming out of a galaxy of stars.
CREATIVE CATEGORY
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NAME: THERESA GUISE
COUNTRY: USA
TITLE: Seahorse with the golden mane
CAPTION: Lembeh Island: Seahorse
The seahorse was backlit with a yellow light and imaged using slow shutter speed to give the illusion of a flowing yellow mane.
FREEDIVING CATEGORY
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NAME: YEN WEN CHIH
COUNTRY: TAIWAN
TITLE: Free Diver
CAPTION: Philipine-Moalboal
The free diver control her breath and swimming with the fishes. You can see the divers and fishes are free in the ocean.
FREEDIVING CATEGORY
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NAME: ANDREW TSZ ON LAU
COUNTRY: HONG KONG
TITLE: Dance with Manta
CAPTION: Manta – Maldives
Manta swam toward the light at surface in Maldives during night dive.
VIDEO CATEGORY
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NAME: SIMONE PICCOLI
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: Whale Totem
CAPTION: Tonga-Vava’u-Humpback whales
Every year, around the small island of Tonga, hundreds of humpback whales come to give birth to their culfs, and to teach them how to grow before the big trip back to the Antarctic. The relationship between mother and culfs, their songs, frame an exhilarating adventure with profound meanings …
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NAME: ROS SYAFIQAH ROSLAN
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
TITLE: Artificial Reef: Art Of the Sea
CAPTION: Artificial reefs are similar in structure to the sea bed specially made for increasing fish populations and coral propagation in some areas. Artificial reefs experienced a continuous innovation process. From only thatch, bamboo, branches of mangrove trees to “advance ceramic technology”. Originally it purposely for the fishes, currently it also serving coral reefs restoration. Various types and shapes can also be seen. Each has its own advantages.
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NAME: LEONARD LIM
COUNTRY: SINGAPORE
TITLE: Sea Goddess
CAPTION: Bali , Tulemben , Model
It was a team effort to make this shot happen especially with our talented model, safety divers and a lot of planning. It was such a great experience and challenge that we overcame.
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NAME: PETER DE MAAGT
COUNTRY: NETHERLANDS
TITLE: Goby
CAPTION: Bonaire, Bari reef
Fluorescence diving allows seeing a familiar reef in a new light. You will see something entirely different, the colours and formations can be overwhelming. It allows capturing some special images. This transparent goby is being backlit by the fluorescence glow of the coral.
HONOURABLE MENTION
NAME: ROSNI HUSSIN
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
TITLE: Salvador Dali
CAPTION: Gorontalo, Sulawesi – Jinn Caves
The Salvador Dali Guard.
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NAME: KANG QIU JIAN
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
TITLE: Giant Frogfish
CAPTION: Borneo, Mataking House Reef
A cute giant frogfish was spotted at Mataking house reef. They are the master of camouflage.
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MACRO CATEGORY
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NAME: BAUSANI PAOLO
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: MAGIC MIROR
CAPTION: Male of cardinalfish carrying eggs in the mouth. Image taken in Lembeh (Indonesia)
MACRO CATEGORY
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NAME : DAMIR ZURUB
COUNTRY : CROATIA
TITLE: DISCO SEA HORSE
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This Seahorse photography is taken in Vrsar (Croatia) in front of the house reef of diving center “Ugor”. On this house reef live 2 species of seahorse. The photography is taken with a background “bokeh” effect on a depth of 8 meter.
WIDE ANGLE CATEGORY
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NAME: CEDRIC PENEAU
COUNTRY: REUNION
TITE: Reflections
CAPTION: Reunion Island – Saint Paul – Humpback Whale and Calf. Humpback whales come to breed and mate in our coastal waters during the austral winter.
WIDE ANGLE CATEGORY
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NAME: Marchione Giacomo
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: The spaceship
CAPTION:
From the deep blue emerges a great whale shark, completely enveloped by hesitations, it slowly moves in search of plankton. Its majesty and its charm are unique thanks, too, to the traveling companions who follow it.
PORTFOLIO CATEGORY
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NAME: ADRIANO MORETTIN
COUNTRY: ITALY
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Title: “Kissed by the sun”
The seahorse Hyppocampus guttulatus photographed with the snoot applied on flash and the technique of double exposure.
Title: “Towards the castle”
This shot depicts the jellyfish Rhyzostoma pulmo under the Miramare Castle in the Marine Protected Area of Miramare and was taken with the special fisheye lens 8-15 mm. Nikon used at 8 mm.
Title: “John Dory’s sun”
This juvenile John Dory (Zeus faber) was very small, only three centimeters long, so I could photograph it with the snoot applied on flash and the technique of double exposure.
Title: “In motion”
The seahorse Hyppocampus guttulatus photographed with the snoot applied on flash and the technique of panning.
PORTFOLIO CATEGORY
2ND PRIZE
NAME: TRACEY JENNINGS
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
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TITLE: Not another Sunset
Arborek Jetty, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. I spent 6 hours under the jetty from lunchtime to sunset.
TITLE: Living Wall
Sardines, Moalboal, Philippines. In the shallows of Moalboal, Philippines a living wall of sardines can be found.
TITLE: Halloween
A snake eel in Seraya Secrets Bali, Indonesia. I used a Retra LSD to highlight the face of the snake eel.
TITLE: Nemo in orange
Anemone Fish, Dumaguette, Philippines. I used a junk-shop filter to create the motion effect.
COMPACT CATEGORY
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NAME: PIETRO CREMONE
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: The Bats
CAPTION:
Maldives – Hanifaru Gaa – Pinnatus batfish
A beautiful school of batfishes found in Maldives
COMPACT CATEGORY
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NAME: JIE ZOU
COUNTRY: CHINA
TITLE: Coralgoby
CAPTION:
The coralgoby covered with white spots. They are usually found among branches of Pocillopora.
CREATIVE CATEGORY
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NAME: IPAH UID
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
Title: Aurora
CAPTION: Commonly known as the Two Toned Pygmy squid.
Found usually during night dive and hunts small critters such as shrimp.
CREATIVE CATEGORY
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NAME: THERESA GUISE
COUNTRY: US
CAPTION:
TITLE: QUEEN ANGLE EYE
Creative: Bonaire, Den Laman House Reef. The eye of a queen angelfish as viewed through a tube.
FREEDIVING CATEGORY
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NAME: CAO YANG
COUNTRY: CHINA
TITLE:
CAPTION: CORON FREEDIVING
Philippines ,palawan coron.Barracuda Lake,freediving. A student has just passed her freediving course assessment.
FREEDIVING CATEGORY
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NAME: DAVIDE LOPRESTI
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: Stefano
CAPTION:
Irrationality is to see the world upside down, idiocy is to sit upside down to go back to see it as before.
VIDEO CATEGORY
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NAME: FAN PING
COUNTRY: CHINA
TITLE: FIND YOURSELF
CAPTION:
Life is a journey, embrace the ocean in the beautiful Saipan with Chinese freediver Jessea Lu.
VIDEO CATEGORY
2ND PRIZE
NAME: TOM VIERUS
COUNTRY: GERMANY
TITLE: Fiji’s Sharks – Diving the Shark Reef Marine Reserve
CAPTION:
Up to eight species of sharks can be observed in Fiji’s Shark Reef Marine Reserve, though the dive is most famous for its bull sharks. Shark populations are declining around the world and sustainable, safe and science supporting sharkdiving can be a valuable tool in shark conservation and public awareness.
BEST OF SHOW
NAME: Norhayati Ahmad
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
TITLE: Mangrove Raja Ampat
CAPTION: Mangroves hold a certain fascination for most of us, for the rich bounty in the form of timber, fish, shellfish, and seafood. At Raja Ampat, much pleasure is derived by the tranquility, abundance and the beauty of the mangrove habitat, that seems to come out as alive and exciting.
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