{"id":240,"date":"2014-07-15T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:43:16","slug":"weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-28-ken-kiefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-28-ken-kiefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Underwater Hot Shot – Week 28 by Ken Kiefer"},"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 Ken Kiefer<\/a> for achieving a weekly hotshot status with his recent competition entry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Oceanic Whitetip Shark with pilotfish over a mid ocean seamount. Sunrays dancing over her body.<\/p>\n

Judged by Kristin Anderson who says:<\/p>\n

It’s all about the stripes – that sunlight is awsome and the complementary lines on the fish, streaking through the blue and on the bottom all work for me. Well done!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ken Kiefer <\/strong>
\nKen Kiefer has always had a love for the water and it\u2019s residents. He grew up surfing and loving nature. This progressed to lifeguarding to stay near the water as much as possible. While lifeguarding he was introduced to scuba diving in 1992 and it was love at first breath. He quickly progressed through the dive ranks to become a PADI instructor by 1994.
\nHe wanted to share all of the beauty that he was experiencing underwater with his friends and family, so he tried both still photography and video to bring a small part of the underwater realm home to them. Starting with a tiny point and shoot Sealife and working through a Nikonos and various small video formats, Ken found his passion when DSLRs came onto the scene. Digital media allowed him to better express the creativity that he wanted to show.<\/div>\n

Ken honed his photojournalistic style by shooting in the swift currents of Cozumel and with speedy swim teams. He had to learn to compose shots in seconds, because many times …
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