RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Together, PADI® and Scuba Diving® journal have introduced the winners of their 18th annual Through Your Lens photograph contest, which drew in almost 2,600 entries from world wide.
“The submissions for our 2022 Through Your Lens photo contest have exceeded our expectations,” says Andy Leisner, Chief Consumer Officer of PADI Worldwide, the writer of Scuba Diving journal. “The imagery in this annual collection of underwater photography is outstanding, unique, and captures what a very small portion of the global population has had the opportunity to experience: the other stunning 70% of our watery planet.”
This 12 months’s grand prize winner is Boz Johnson, whose placing nighttime picture of a flying fish gliding slightly below the floor highlights the magic of the underwater world and the wonder value defending. Through Your Lens is the primary photograph Johnson ever entered, and he took dwelling $1,000 from Scuba Diving journal and a liveaboard journey aboard the BVI Aggressor from Aggressor Adventures.
The prize-winning pictures within the 4 contest classes—macro, wide-angle, habits, and compact digicam—embody: ice-diving a whale carcass, a perch consuming one other perch, a moray eel opening its mouth for a enamel cleansing from a bluestreak wrasse, a diver exploring the shallows of a Mexican cenote on a sunny day, a whale shark at night time, an octopus mom tending her eggs, and a black and white shrimp.
The first-place winner for every of the required classes additionally acquired the week-long Aggressor Adventures liveaboard journey, the second-place winners a SCUBAPRO regulator, and the third-place winners a SeaLife mild or underwater smartphone housing accent. Select winners may also be given the chance to have their pictures featured on PADI certification playing cards.
“We are on a mission to encourage more people to experience, explore and protect our shared blue planet, with the 2022 Through Your Lens images playing a powerful role in sparking positive ocean change,” continues Leisner.
To take a look at this 12 months’s assortment of successful pictures, go to scubadiving.com/worlds-best-underwater-photos. To inquire about reproducing successful pictures, please contact [email protected].
About PADI
PADI® (Professional Association of Diving Instructors®) is the biggest purpose-driven diving group with a worldwide group of 6,600 dive facilities and resorts, 128,000 skilled members and greater than 29 million licensed divers thus far. Committed to our blue planet, PADI makes the marvel of the underwater world accessible to all, empowering folks world wide to expertise, discover and take significant motion, as Ocean Torchbearers™, to guard the world beneath the floor. For over 50 years, PADI is undeniably The Way the World Learns to Dive®, setting the usual for the best high quality dive coaching, underwater security and conservation initiatives whereas evolving the game of diving right into a passionate way of life. For divers by divers, PADI is obsessive about reworking lives and, with its world basis, PADI AWARE™, creating optimistic ocean change. Seek Adventure. Save the Ocean. SM www.padi.com
About Scuba Diving Magazine
Scuba Diving® journal, the official publication of PADI Club™, serves as a discussion board by which all divers, no matter ability stage, geographic location, age, intercourse or race, see themselves represented. As the preeminent supply for all issues dive, the journal displays the conversations and pursuits of on a regular basis divers, showcasing world-class pictures, unbiased product opinions and inspirational tales. Scuba Diving digs into what we love in regards to the sport and provides new divers experiences to succeed in for, and veteran divers concepts of the place to go subsequent. scubadiving.com
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