Just back from a great week diving in Grand Cayman. Whilst there might not be big schools of fish to photograph there was still plenty of interest… and the visibility underwater was the best I’ve ever experienced. I’ll be processing the images and video over the next few months but in the meantime here’s one of the southern stingrays I photographed.
The good old diving gannets appeared in the Times yesterday :-)
Just heard that Diving Gannets took the Gold medal in the Nature Wildlife category in the World Photographic Cup - full results here.
The WPC is the only Olympics style event in the world for Photography. WPC Chief Executive Officer Giuseppe Scozzi, who led the ceremony, said “Over the past ten years the competition has grown and with it the standard of entries. WPC truly showcases the best in photography from across the world. Those who do succeed can truly claim to have created the best photography in the world and WPC is the vehicle for showcasing this work.”
In 2019 it was voted best image in the world at the FIAP World Cup, so this is the second time it has taken the honour.
Thank you to the gannets of Shetland!
Diving Gannets, Shetland
I rarely enter photographic competitions these days but I do make the odd exception and in the last week I’ve had two successes with those exceptions.
The first was at the N&EMPF Inter-Club Projected Digital Image Championship 2023 where I was awarded Best Image with one of my high board divers “Reverse Pike”
The second was the Royal Photographic Society Nature Group’s Annual Exhibition where "Harlequin Shrimps, Indonesia" was awarded a Gold medal.
Happy days :-)
Harlequin Shrimps, Indonesia
Reverse Pike
Bunaken Island in Indonesia is a top dive location. The resort (Bunaken Oasis) is superb and the diving features lots of two of my favourite species - turtles & clownfish. What's not to like?
Here’s a video from the trip and a few images below.
Back in November I was told that my Diving Gannets image had been selected as one of twenty-four images to represent the UK in the World Photographic Cup. Thirty-two countries competed this year and yesterday the Finalists and “Best of Nation” Awards were announced at Imaging USA 2023.
Today I was told my image has been chosen as the UK’s “Best of Nation” image;
In addition I’ve been selected as one of the 10 finalists in the Nature / Wildlife category:
The WPC Awards Ceremony is in Singapore on March 17, 2023. I doubt I’ll attend - but I’d be lying to say I’m not excited :-)
Diving Gannets, Shetland
