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The NUPG / GNDS Underwater Photography Print Competition Results

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The Northern Underwater Photography Group held their second annual print competition at The Great Northern Dive Show held at Event City in Manchester over the weekend of the 8th & 9th April 2017. It was another successful year, with high quality images being displayed for the public to select their favourites in four categories: British & Irish Macro; British & Irish Wide Angle; Overseas Macro & Overseas Wide Angle.

An Imperial Stormtrooper casting his vote

Over the 2 days of the show, over 300 show attendees cast their votes, including a few Stormtroopers and Princess Leia! The voting was tough, with many excellent images on show in each category. There were images of marine life from tiny shrimps to large sharks, wrecks, reef scenes, divers & caves. Members of the NUPG were on hand all weekend to help those voting and to chat about the club which meets in Manchester each month to discuss all things underwater photography.

In addition to the public vote, representatives of the competition sponsors, Fleet Dive and Safari Diving Lanzarote, also had to select their favourite images to award the Overall Category Winners. Gary from Fleet Dive selected his favourite image from the two British & Irish categories. Fleet Dive, based in the Costa Brava, have kindly awarded the winner a diving & accommodation package to enjoy some of the best diving this area has to offer. The Overall Overseas winner was selected by Wendy from Safari Diving Lanzarote who has also donated a diving package prize for the winner. Photo pro, Paul “Duxy” Duxfield kindly assisted both Gary and Wendy as they made their final decisions on who should take away the main prizes.

Simon Temple’s highly commended UK Macro shot

Each category winner will receive a shark sponsorship pack from The Shark Trust, donated by the NUPG. The winners can select to support Great White Sharks, Basking Sharks, Whaleshark or a No Limits? Shark.

So here are the results:

British Macro

Winner – Trevor Rees, nudibranch (coryphella lineata) grazing on hydroids, Loch Carron May 16, Nikon D600 + Nikon 60mm

Runner-Up – John Spencer, pair of hermit crabs, Loch Sunart, Nikon D7000 + 60mm

Highly Commended – Simon Temple, snakelocks anemone shrimp, Babbacombe Devon, Nikon D90

Trevor Rees’ winning UK Macro shot

British Wide Angle

Winner – Caroline Robertson-Brown, Grey Seal Nose, Farne Islands, Nikon D7100, Tokina 10-17mm lens

Runner-Up – Trevor Rees, Blue Shark, 10 miles off shore from Penzance, Oct 16, Nikon D600 + Sigma 15mm

Highly Commended – Simon Temple, Snorkelling with a young grey seal, Eastern Isles, Isles of Scilly, Nikon D90

Trevor Rees’ runner-up shot in the British Wide Angle category

Overseas Macro

Winner – John Spencer, Anemonefish, night dive, Lembeh Indonesia, D7000 + 60mm

Runner-Up – Lisa Collins, Beauty and the Beast, hairy goby and porcelain crab, Anilao, Philippines, Canon EOS6D + 100mm + x2 teleconverter

Highly Commended – John Spencer, Anemonefish, Lembeh Indonesia, D7000 + 60mm

Lisa Collins’ runner-up shot in the Overseas Macro category

Overseas Wide Angle

Caroline Robertson-Brown’s winning shot in the Overall Overseas Winner category

Winner – Justin Beevor Snapper v Snappers, Bohar Snapper at Ras Mohammed, Sony a6300 + 16mm with fisheye converter

Runner-Up – Justin Beevor Wreck of the Giannis D, Sha’ab Abu Nuhas, Sony a6300 + 16mm with fisheye converter

Highly Commended – Lisa Collins, Reaching for the Sun, diver in Chasmal Cenote Tulum, Canon EOS6D + 8-15mm

Overall British & Irish Champion is John Spencer with his shot of a pair of hermit crabs from Loch Sunart, who wins the diving package with Fleet Dive.

Overall Overseas Champion is Caroline Robertson-Brown with her shot of a playful Cape Fur Seal taken in South Africa who wins the diving package with Safari Diving Lanzarote.

John Spencer’s winning shot in the Overall British and Irish Category (this shot was also Runner-Up in the UK Macro category)

The NUPG would like to thank all those who entered the competition, all those who voted, everyone who helped out over the weekend and to our sponsors, Fleet Dive and Safari Diving Lanzarote. It is always a pleasure to share the beauty of our underwater world with a wider public, including loads of children, at this event.

Wendy from Safari Diving Lanzarote awarding Caroline as the Overall Overseas Champion

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Nick and Caroline (Frogfish Photography) are a married couple of conservation driven underwater photo-journalists and authors. Both have honours degrees from Manchester University, in Environmental Biology and Biology respectively, with Nick being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a former high school science teacher with a DipEd in Teaching Studies. Caroline has an MSc in Animal Behaviour specializing in Caribbean Ecology. They are multiple award-winning photographers and along with 4 published books, feature regularly in the diving, wildlife and international press They are the Underwater Photography and Deputy Editors at Scubaverse and Dive Travel Adventures. Winners of the Caribbean Tourism Organization Photo-journalist of the Year for a feature on Shark Diving in The Bahamas, and they have been placed in every year they have entered. Nick and Caroline regularly use their free time to visit schools, both in the UK and on their travels, to discuss the important issues of marine conservation, sharks and plastic pollution. They are ambassadors for Sharks4Kids and founders of SeaStraw. They are Dive Ambassadors for The Islands of The Bahamas and are supported by Mares, Paralenz, Nauticam and Olympus. To find out more visit www.frogfishphotography.com

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