{"id":267,"date":"2014-08-21T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:16:20","slug":"weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-33-michael-weberberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/blog\/weekly-underwater-hot-shot-week-33-michael-weberberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Underwater Hot Shot &#8211; Week 33 by Michael Weberberger"},"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=37863\">Michael Weberberger<\/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\/102942.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>great encounter on the Silver Banks<\/p>\n<p>Judged by stew smith who says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Great subject with different composition than we usually see of whales. Great to have something else within the frame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"hr-bar\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"member-pic\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/Upload\/Members\/37863.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"member-details\"><strong>Michael Weberberger <\/strong><br \/>\nMichael Weberberger, born 1968 in Leoben.<br \/>\nI had my first diving experiences in 1990 in Thailand. After a longer break due to starting a family, I decided to pick it up again in 2002 and took the diving license on Elba, Italy. Further courses were pursued up to the title of a Rescue Diver.I started to photograph in 2005, equipped with an Olympus c5050 purely to capture holiday impressions. After a tiger shark expedition in 2009 I decided to purchase a DSLR camera and since then I am heavily involved in underwater photography.<\/div>\n<p>My biggest passion is (cage-) free shark diving<a href=\"http:\/\/www.underwaterphotography.com\/Members\/Member-Profile.aspx?ID=37863\"><br \/>\nFull Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-bar\"><\/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":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[24,7,4],"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 33 by Michael Weberberger - 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-33-michael-weberberger\/\" \/>\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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