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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Paul Colley

308 Entries Found: Page 4  of  12
Egg Cowrie
A motorbike on the wreck of SS Thistlegorm. Slow shutter to capture the blue light coming through the hold hatchway.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2013
3rd place Monthly HotShots
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a common shot from this wreck but executed perfectly Paul
Schooling Bohar Snappers at Shark Reef, Ras Mohammed. 105mm lens + cropped sensor
Pyjama slug nudibranch
dreaming in red
Red Sea Anemonefish
Crocodilefish in the entrance to a cave. Taken with a compact camera fitted with a wide angle lens.
Ascension Island. A composite image that remains true to what Ascension looks like, both above and below water.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Ascension Island Tilefish.
Titan Triggerfish with cleaner wrasses
'Coral Grouper': South Atlantic grouper merged into a Red Sea hard coral.
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2013

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One of the few images of marine life that seems to look good looking down and without the eyes in view; turtle shell
Ascension Island sunset. 2 minute exposure with 10 stop ND filter.
Ascension Island juvenile Hogfish; in the transition between its bright yellow immature phase to the dark red adult.
Biomass! Thousands of Black Durgeons accompany a diver off Ascension Island to the North of St Helena.
A Marmalade Razor Fish. Only a few cm long and easily spooked, at which point it dives head first into sand and rock, vanishing from view in milliseconds.
Unknown Jelly cruising past during a decompression stop.

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Starfish in rock pool
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Ascension Island Black Durgon Triggerfish with diver near the China Wreck dive site.
Black Durgon Triggerfish under Boatswain Bird Rock off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Part photoshop manipulated to correct dome splashing and exposure differences.
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Close up of a Black Durgon. 60mm with +3 diopter
Diver with huge school of Black Durgon
Rock pool shrimp. 105mm with +3 diopter
Octopus eye
A triplet of juvenile Robust Ghost Pipefish
shortlistedShortlisted!
Juvenile Egyptian seahorse
Soapfish
308 Entries Found: Page 4  of  12