The Finalist Images Of The Second Edition Of The Annual Ocean Photography Competition Were Announced In Six Different Categories.
Finalists for the 2021 Ocean Photo Contest were announced in six categories: Portfolio, Young Photographer of the Year, and Conservation.
The public voting to determine the winners continued until recently, and now the final winners have been announced. But seeing the exciting and thought-provoking pictures of the finalists is not without pleasure.
Commenting on ocean photography and this year’s event, Marc Hayek, CEO of Blancpain and one of the competition’s partners, says:
As a diver and underwater photographer, I appreciate photographers’ passion, skill, and dedication in this field to capture great ocean images. The finalists in the second annual Ocean Photography Contest have showcased these three elements well in their photos.
This year’s images show the ocean as it is, or at least as it should be, a place full of life, color, and wonder.
Also, these images remind us of the injustices we do to the ocean and its inhabitants.
Photographer’s name: Grace Horatio
An excellent lemon shark swimming in the waters of Florida.
Photographer’s name: Matty Smith
A colorful sea raider under an apocalyptic red sky.
Photographer’s name: Stephen Christman
Male emperor penguins huddle together to stay warm as a group during an arctic night.
Photographer’s name: Steven Kovacs
The crab larva carries the cold worm’s larvae, its food source.
Photographer’s name: Phil de Glanville
Jack Robinson is riding one of the famous waves in Wright, A place with some of the world’s heaviest waves.
Photographer’s name: Fabrice Greene
A sea lion is trying to catch spotted fish off Baja California, Gulf of Mexico coast.
Photographer’s name: Hana Lello
A newborn green sea turtle cautiously surfaces to escape the beaks of hungry birds on Heron Island, Australia.
Photographer’s name: Martin Bruen
The long shadows of the cave rocks in cenote Dos Pisos in Mexico.
Photographer name: Nicholas Samaras
A seahorse in Stratoni, Greece, clings to a respirator abandoned in the ocean.
Illustrator Name: Campbell Chan
An endangered yellow-eyed penguin under the starry sky of Corio Bay in New Zealand.
Photographer’s name: Sebastian Pontaviso
A free diver is photographing a humpback whale.
Photographer’s name: Henley Spiers
The body of a dead white goose hangs from a nest it made for itself with a piece of discarded fishing gear.
Photographer’s name: Tanya Hoppermans
At dusk, an American alligator emerges from the water in Queen’s Gardens (a Cuban marine reserve).
Photographer’s name: Rodrigo Tome
Community of Sarchekshi sharks.
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