{"id":1153,"date":"2017-06-27T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:04:17","slug":"weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-25-filip-staes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-25-filip-staes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Underwater Hot Shot &#8211; Week 25 by Filip Staes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>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><em style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;\">For a chance to feature as a weekly winner upload your best photos <a title=\"Enter Photo Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/photo-contest\/How-To-Enter.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/Members\/Member-Profile.aspx?ID=44642\">Filip Staes<\/a> for achieving a weekly hotshot status with his recent competition entry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img class=\"post-weekly-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/\/Upload\/UP\/Competition\/Previews\/127835.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barrel jellyfish, Zeeland, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Judged by Kjeld Friis who says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a classic composition for a jellyfish shot. But I just love the colours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"hr-bar\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"member-pic\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/Upload\/Members\/44642.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"member-details\"><strong>Filip Staes <\/strong><br \/>\nI started diving in 1992 and photography became a part of my life around 1997. I made my first underwaterphotos in Sharm El Sheikh with a rented Nikonos. In 2000 I began competing in underwater photography contests. After 25 years in the water I&#8217;m still addicted to the underwaterworld. I photograph with a Nikon D7100 in a Hugyfot housing. I hope you enjoy my photos as much as I do \ud83d\ude09<a href=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/Members\/Member-Profile.aspx?ID=44642\"><br \/>\nFull Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-bar\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-floats\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, a weekly winner is chosen by one of our judges and is displayed throughout the whole week at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[75,7,4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Weekly Underwater Hot Shot - Week 25 by Filip Staes - UnderwaterPhotography.com Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-25-filip-staes\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekly Underwater Hot Shot - 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