First Place Collective Portfolio Award.
Photo: Nadia Aly - Ocean Photography AwardsFor its inaugural contest, the Ocean Photography Awards has honored photographers across six categories covering a cross-section of amazing undersea photography dealing with conservation, adventure, exploration and the extraordinary beauty of the sea.
The overall winner, declared Ocean Photographer of the Year, is the Canadian photographer Nadia Aly with her fluid image (below) of a congregation of mobula rays in the clear waters off Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The award includes £5,000, among other prizers.
The Ocean Photography Awards, presented by Oceanographic Magazine is “a celebration of our blue planet and a platform to shine a light on the threats facing the ocean,” explain the organizers.
“Nadia Aly’s winning photograph mesmerized all seven of our judges, and it’s easy to see why – it’s a beautiful image that captures the vibrancy of life in the ocean,” said Will Harrison, editor of Oceanographic Magazine. “These Awards are about the ocean at large, whether seen through the lens of a scuba-diving conservationist, an adventurous surfer or a free-diving explorer.”
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Overall Winner: An aggregation of mobula rays in clear waters off Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Photo: Nadia Aly - Ocean Photography AwardsAly is an award-winning wildlife photographer, with a focus on underwater marine life. Her primary goal is to educate people about the diverse populations of sea creatures in the ocean.
“Mobula rays are incredibly sensitive to movement and sound,” the photographer explains. “So I took this image while free-diving.”
Runner-up: Between two realms. A surfer seemingly waves to the world below as he surfs a wave at Log ... [+]
Photo: Sacha Specker - Ocean Photography AwardsFirst Place, Collective Portfolio Award.
Nadia Aly - Ocean Photography AwardsSecond Place Winner Collective Portfolio Category.
Photo: Henley Spiers - Ocean Photography AwardsHenley Spiers is an award-winning photographer who has featured regularly in the international press, including The Sunday Times and Der Spiegel, as well as on multiple magazine covers.
Winner Second Place Collective Portfolio Awards.
Photo Henley Spiers - Ocean Photography AwardsWinner Second Place Collective Portfolio
Photo: Henley Spiers - Ocean Photography AwardsMore than 3,000 images were submitted by professional and amateur photographers from around the world, including some well-known names in the world of oceanographic photography.
Prizes and commendations, including £1,000 awards, were handed out in categories covering conservation, exploration, adventure, young photographers, community choice and collective portfolio.
The awards are organized in partnership with SeaLegacy, a collective of photographers focused on ocean conservation that offers a year-long residency to the photographer winning the Collective Portfolio Award.
Winner Collective Portfolio Award
Photo: Nadia Aly - Ocean Photography AwardsThird Place, Collective Portfolio Award
Photo: Shane Gross - Ocean Photography AwardsShane Gross is a Canadian marine conservation photojournalist and Emerging League member of the International League of Conservation Photographers. He is currently based in The Bahamas working to conserve queen conch, Nassau grouper, seagrass and mangrove habitats, among others.
Winner Ocean Conservation Photographer Of The Year: A hermit crab crawls atop a pile of plastic in a ... [+]
Photo: Mark Sharp - Ocean Photography AwardsThird Place, Ocean Conservation: A diver’s regulator holder cuts into the flesh of an oceanic ... [+]
Photo: Joe Daniels - Ocean Photography AwardsWinner Community Choice Award: Two penguins look out across the water, Melbourne’s lights in the ... [+]
Photo: Tobias Baumgaertner - Ocean Photography AwardsTwo widowed penguins seemingly comfort one another as they gaze upon Melbourne's lights. "The photo is one of those photos that you couldn't have planned if you tried, the photographer said. “I went there to take images of the penguin colony and intended to capture a photograph which shows the pressures that human settlement/infrastructure can have on wild animal populations."
“This image is so much more. It communicates togetherness and love and I am very happy that it has reached many hearts around the world."
A Steller sea lion inquisitively peers into the photographer’s dome port. Hornby Island, British ... [+]
Photo: Celia Kujala - Ocean Photography AwardsA Steller sea lion inquisitively peers into the photographer’s dome port on Hornby Island in Canada’s British Columbia.
Steller sea lions are listed as ‘near threatened.’
Finalist Ocean Conservation: A starving polar bear looks out to sea, waiting for ice to return in ... [+]
Photo: Martin Berg - Ocean Photography AwardsWinner Exploration Photographer: Penguins march through heavy snowfall and strong winds in St ... [+]
Photo: Ben Cranke - Ocean Photography AwardsWinner Young Ocean Photographer. The silky tentacles of a brightly colored Magnificent Anemone sway ... [+]
Photo: Cruz S Erdmann - Ocean Photography AwardsThe silky tentacles of a brightly-colored Magnificent Anemone sway in surging water, exposing Maldivian anemone fish in the Laamu Atoll of the South Maldives.
Highly Commended Adventure category: Paddle boarders float above a reef in Vava’u, Tonga.
Photo: Grant Thomas - Ocean Photography AwardsPaddle boarders float above a reef at sunset. “This image is one of a series of images aimed at demonstrating the innate bond humans have with the ocean, whether we are physically in it or just floating on the surface,” says photographer Grant Thomas. “In creating this picture, timing was everything; I had to shoot exactly at low tide to be close enough to the reef, while simultaneously capturing the sun as it hit the horizon.”
Highly Commended Adventure Category: Swimmer and environmental activist Lewis Pugh swimming off ... [+]
Photo: Olle Nordell - Ocean Photography AwardsWinner Adventure Category
Photo: Jason Gulley - Ocean Photography AwardsA free-diving instructor waits for his student to return from a dive below Cenote Angelita’s microbial cloud in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
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