{"id":297,"date":"2014-10-02T13:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-10-02T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:43:22","slug":"weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-39-volker-lonz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-39-volker-lonz\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Underwater Hot Shot – Week 39 by Volker Lonz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, a weekly winner is chosen by one of our judges and is displayed throughout the whole week at the top of the contest page. The judges take turns weekly and have the freedom to choose any entry to be the weekly winner.<\/em>For a chance to feature as a weekly winner upload your best photos here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Volker Lonz<\/a> for achieving a weekly hotshot status with his recent competition entry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Stargazer<\/p>\n

Judged by Iyad Suleyman who says:<\/p>\n

Despite Stargazer fish look pretty scary, you’ve captured great portrait, Volker!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Volker Lonz <\/strong>
\nVolker\u2019s motto is: “Diving is my life, the rest is waiting”.
\nWith his camera as his third eye, he tries to crop a small part of the big, wonderful underwater world. He wants to exhibit the creativity of the grandest artist, our mother nature.
\nVolker started in 2000, diving in Mauritius and ever since then he has become a compressed air junkie. After his initial introduction to scuba diving he travelled the world performing his new found passion.
\nHe first began with photography in 2003-2004 with a small sony cybershot – a camera he says allowed him to decide on whether or not he would be interested in continuing with photography. He quickly realized that underwater photography was something he loved, but became limited by his equipment, which is when he decided to invest in a Fuji S2 Pro and later in a Nikon D300 with seacam protective housing cover and a couple of underwater Inon Z220 and Inon Z240 strobes. He also invested in a variety of lenses.
\nFull Profile<\/a><\/div>\n

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