2024 Ocean Art underwater photo competition announced

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The 13th annual Ocean Art underwater photo competition 2024 is accepting entries from today until 30 November 2024


The Underwater Photography Guide has announced it has begun accepting entries for the 2024 edition of the annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition – now in its 13th year.

The competition attracts both professional and amateur photographers from around the world, with the largest prize fund for any internationally recognised competition.

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Fourteen categories provide a fair playing field all types of camera and photo disciplines, and more than 50 winning images go on to create a portfolio of the best underwater photos of the year.

This year’s competition features more than $60,000 in prizes provided by some of the world’s top scuba diving resorts, liveaboard dive yachts, and underwater photo gear manufacturers.

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2023 Best in Show and Portrait Category winner ‘Aquatic Primate’ by Suliman Alatiqi (Photo: Suliman Alatiqi/Ocean Art 2023/UPG)

Grand prizes include a wide range of strobes, snoots, and accessories from Marelux, a 7 night dive package in Roatan with Anthony’s Key Resort, a 10 night liveaboard dive trip in Papua New Guinea with Walindi Plantation Resort; an 8 day, 16 dive adventure for two in Raja Ampat with Meridian Adventure; a 7 night liveaboard dive trip with Bilikiki Cruises in the Solomon Islands; a 10 day dive trip with Mermaid Liveaboards in Raja Ampat or Komodo; a 7 night dive trip in Indonesia aboard the Coralia Liveaboard; a 14 night dive trip to Ambon Indonesia with Spice Island Divers; an 8 day dive trip to the Galapagos with Andean Travel Company; an Ikelite DS 230 Strobe with a modeling light; and a variety of gift certificates from Bluewater Photo and Bluewater Travel.

Premium travel prizes are provided by El Galleon/Asia Divers (Philippines), Atmosphere Resorts & Spa (Dumaguete, Philippines), Aiyanar Beach & Dive Resort (Anilao, Philippines), All 4 Diving & Akaya Bali (Bali, Indonesia), Sea Saba (Saba, Caribbean), and Ultralight Camera Solutions.

Ocean Art 2024 consists of 14 categories in total, with the top categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Marine Life Behavior and three corresponding compact camera categories, giving underwater photographers of all levels a chance to win the top prizes.

Unique categories include Black & White, Marine Life Portrait, Cold/Temperate Water, Blackwater, Underwater Conservation, and Nudibranchs.

The Underwater Fashion and Underwater Digital Art categories provide two very different and unique art forms their own categories – with complete freedom in post-processing.

Winners from each category can rank the prizes they would like to receive, making it more likely that each winner will receive a prize they desire.

To enter the competition, head to www.uwphotographyguide.com/ocean-art. Photos must be submitted before the deadline of 23:59 PST on November 30, 2024.

For more information, visit www.uwphotographyguide.com or follow along on Facebook, Instagram) and Twitter.

Filed under: Briefing, Underwater Photography
Tagged with: Ocean Art, Photo Competitions


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