Scubaverse UWP Winners Gallery: Yann Toso

Published 5 years agoon March 9, 2021

Each month we give the winner of the Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition the opportunity to show off a little more of their work in a gallery. The February winner was Yann Toso and you can see his winning image at the top of this page.

What do you love about diving & underwater photography?

I was born and raised in a little town near Udine, in the extreme North-East of Italy. Now I currently live in Ancona (Italy) because of the University, as a student in the Master of Science course in Marine Biology.

I love scuba diving and even more underwater photography because I can show to family, friends and people what I can see deep in the Oceans and then spread the awareness on this wonderful underwater world. In particular I’m focused on low-impact diving and photography, Always stressing about keeping a neutral buoyancy and having a correct behaviour during interactions with marine life: No touch, no chase, no stress, leave nothing but bubbles!

What equipment do you use?

My photography equipment is made of a Sony Alpha-68 camera body in a Gio-Sim housing and my favourite lenses are vintage ones: Minolta 100mm f/2.8 Macro and Minolta 16mm f/2.8 fisheye. For super macro pictures I also add a SubSee Magnifier +10 wet lens. Lighting is composed by Inon z-240 strobes with a ‘Snooty’ snoot for particular advanced techniques.

Where can our readers see more of your work?

Website – https://yanntoso.wixsite.com/uwphotography

Instagram – @yanntosophoto

To enter the latest Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition, with a chance to win some great prizes as well as have your own gallery published, head over to the competition page and upload up to 3 images.

Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown

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