The Underwater Photography Guide is now accepting entries for the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition – now in its 13th year.
The world’s most prestigious underwater photo contest with the largest endowment, this year’s competition features over $60,000 in prizes!
Fabulous Prizes
Some of the world’s top scuba diving resorts, liveaboard dive boats and underwater photo gear manufacturers are providing the prizes. They include
- a wide range of strobes, snoots and accessories from Marelux,
- a 7 night dive package in Roatan with Anthony’s Key Resort,
- a 10 night liveaboard dive trip in Papua New Guinea with Walindi Plantation Resort,
- an 8 day, 16 dive adventure for two in Raja Ampat with Meridian Adventure,
- a 7 night liveaboard dive trip with Bilikiki Cruises in the Solomon Islands,
- a 10 day dive trip with Mermaid Liveaboards in Raja Ampat or Komodo,
- a 7 night dive trip in Indonesia aboard the Coralia Liveaboard,
- a 14 night dive trip to Ambon Indonesia with Spice Island Divers,
- an 8 day dive trip to the Galapagos with Andean Travel Company,
- an Ikelite DS 230 Strobe with a modeling light
- and a variety of gift certificates from Bluewater Photo and Bluewater Travel.
14 Categories for Professional and Amateur Underwater Photographers
Ocean Art 2024 consists of 14 categories total, with the top categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Marine Life Behaviour and 3 corresponding compact camera categories, giving underwater hotographers of all levels a chance to win a great prize.
Unique categories include Black & White, Marine Life Portrait, Cold/Temperate Water, Blackwater, Underwater Conservation and Nudibranchs.
The Underwater Fashion and Underwater Digital Art categories provide two very different and unique art forms their own categories – with complete freedom in post-processing.
Winners from each category will be able to rank the prizes they would like to receive, making it more likely that each winner will receive a prize they desire.
The Judges
This year new judge arrives, Ipah Uid Lynn. Ipah is a rising star Malaysian underwater photographer who brings a new perspective to our competition, in a field that can benefit from increased female representation.
Returning judges include world-renowned underwater photographers Tony Wu, Marty Snyderman, and Mark Strickland.
Marty Snyderman is an Emmy winner with work appearing in top publications like National Geographic.T Tony Wu is a renowned underwater photographer and author of Silent Symphony. Mark Strickland is a published author, award winning underwater photographer, and photo specialist at Bluewater Photo. The
competition is organized by Nirupam Nigam of Bluewater Photo, Bluewater Travel and the Underwater Photography Guide.
How to Enter
Photos must be submitted before the deadline of 23:59 PST on November 30, 2024. Register at the Underwater Photography Guide and then upload your photos. It costs $10 per photo to enter. Enter 10 and get the 11th free. Good Luck!