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UnderwaterPhotography.com is the longest running and most visited resource for underwater photographers on the internet.

Our ultimate goal has always been to help you and fellow underwater photographers fulfill their full potential.

The Underwater Photo Contest

Our underwater photography contest is the Worlds largest - online or off! We have more u/w photos in one place than anywhere else online!

What makes our competition special?

  • We award winners in over 15 categories thus promoting young talent.
  • We choose weekly and monthly winners so photographers don't have to wait long to get acclaimed for their work.
  • Our competition is also an incredible photo database with over 100,000 entries since 1996 that can be searched by category, location and more...
  • You can enter your photo completely for free, once you are a member, you are part of the community and that entails many benefits, for example, get tips from our experts on how to improve.
  • Our Contest gets featured year after year in so many publications (examples below)

We've seen many newbies beat the pro's in the past...

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It's Free | Enter up to 30 photos per month

Plamena Mileva
Gold Medal Winner By Plamena Mileva
Plamena Mileva
Bronze Medal Winner By Plamena Mileva
Dragos Dumitrescu
Gold Medal Winner By Dragos Dumitrescu
Ellen Cuylaerts
Gold Medal Winner By Ellen Cuylaerts
Filip Staes
Bronze Medal Winner By Filip Staes
Dmitry Vinogradov
Silver Medal Winner By Dmitry Vinogradov
Jinggong Zhang
Bronze Medal Winner By Jinggong Zhang
Conor Culver
Gold Medal Winner By Conor Culver
Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Bronze Medal Winner By Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Raoul Caprez
Gold Medal Winner By Raoul Caprez

Why not upload your images too? Don't be put off by the high standards, many newbies have beaten the pro's in recent years! Enter the contest now!

Latest Contest entries
A little crab with its great orange hat photographed in the sea of Goa_ November 2023
 Canon100 1/250 f9 iso100
By Antonio Venturelli
posted 01:21 CST Today (3 hours ago)
Super macro with a wet diopter for this specimen of a little coral fish found at  10 meters deep in the sea of Nha Trang  Vietnam  February 2024.
 Canon100 1/200 f14 iso100
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Yesterday
Nudibranchia  Cyerce elegans   Alam Batu  Bali  Indonesia
By Reinhard Arndt
posted Yesterday
Goby
Gorgonian dwarf goby  Bryaninops amplus  on a shining sea pen  Pennatula phosphorea    Alam Batu  Bali  Indonesia
By Reinhard Arndt
posted (2 days ago)
Aeolid Nudibranch   Flabellina affinis with some parasites on it
By Stefanos Michael
posted (3 days ago)
Nembrotha lineolata
By Magali Marquez
posted (4 days ago)

You can get featured in major publications, this happens every year since 1996 as the press appreciate the standards and authority of our competition.

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