Search the Contest

Entries by Category
Entries by Sea
Entries by Country
or enter search text

forum forum Stats Portfolios Annual Medal Winners slide show Annual Medal Winners spam voting policy photo contest RSS feed rules

Weekly Hotshot

Monthly Winners

Monthly winners will be shown by the 10th of the following month

Upload a Photo

Our UW photo contest is the longest running and most prestigious online. If you want to make a name for yourself this is THE place to do it. See some famous publications about winning photos.

How the Contest Works?

Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Fernando Trindade

12 Entries Found
All the way down (or is it up?)
With focus, Polycera quadrilineata going down on Codium. The detail of the mantle was the goal. Out of focus, a very very small Elysia viridis, a very special uninvited guest! smile
Flabellina babai with rinophores "syndactyly"
These malformations make each specimen unique smile and rare!
Flabellina babai with rinophore's syndactyly
Detail, no crop.
Sesimbra, Portugal
Canon 450D, featuring 44mm automatic extension tubes and a Subsee +10, Ultramax UXDS-1 x 2 set at 2/4 each
Lens: Canon EF 28-80 f/3.5-5.6USM
Focal Dist: 80mm
Flabellina babai with rinophore's syndactyly
Detail, no crop.
Sesimbra, Portugal
Canon 450D, featuring 44mm automatic extension tubes and a Subsee +10, Ultramax UXDS-1 x 2 set at 2/4 each
Lens: Canon EF 28-80 f/3.5-5.6USM
Focal Dist: 67mm
...
Hypselodoris villafranca going down.
Light form side on purpose, to get colors of portuguese flag. smile
A funny Hypselodoris villafranca trying to watch what I was doing!
Hey... we're watching you!
( It's Orwell, ...!!! )
Antennae Dragon fish
At Lisbon Oceanário, an enourmous oceanic aquarium.
The idea is to show the several levels of swimming, the different areas species occupy when swimming.
Taken with a Sony Alph 350, no flash, no filter.
Sunfish (or in portuguese: Peixe-Lua, wich means "moonfish")
Mola-mola, as the latin name.
A special shot on a special day
This is a kind of crab named "Navalheira" in portuguese.
Species: Necora Puber
Family: Portunidae
This picture is an example of Depth of Field usage.
Focus is at crab's eyes.
Water Temp: 16º
Depth: 13.3 meters
Spot: Pedra do Leão - Sesimbra
A nice "linguado lunado". That's it's name in portuguese.
It was quite calm and it was possible to approach it slowly and take this shot.
It was over a rock, it had just swimmed up to it a minute ago and I spotted it.
 
 
 
12 Entries Found