Critter Features

  1. Jake Wilton - Underwater Tour Awards 2022 - Grand GURU Winner

    The Underwater Tour Awards 2022 - Winners Announced!!

    Contributed By : Underwater Operator

    The Underwater Tour Awards 2022 - Winners Announced!!

    Contributed By : Underwater Operator

    Underwater Tour Awards 2022

    The winners of the Third Annual Underwater Tour Awards have been announced. The prestigious annual international competition encourages and inspires passion for photography, exploration and discovery from behind the lens and helps raise awareness of the world’s incredible, fragile marine and aquatic inhabitants and their environments. For the first time the Underwater Tour Awards partnered with environmental education and action organisation, Take 3, and introduced a new novice category, The Take 3 for the Sea Contest. Proceeds from registration fees and additional donations were given to Take 3.

    Led by Convenor Darren Jew, Canon Master and six-time winner of the AIPP’s Professional Nature Photographer of the Year, the international judging panel: Amanda Blanksby, William Tan, Dr Richard Smith, Russell Ord and Brett Lobwein

  2. Amanda Blanksby - Underwater Tour Awards 2021 - Grand GURU Winner

    The Underwater Tour Awards 2021 - Winners Announced!!

    Contributed By : Underwater Operator

    The Underwater Tour Awards 2021 - Winners Announced!!

    Contributed By : Underwater Operator

    Underwater Tour Awards 2021

    The organisers of the Underwater Tour Awards have announced the winners of its second annual, prestigious international competition in the livestreamed Underwater Tour Show broadcast.

    The annual competition encourages and inspires passion for photography, exploration and discovery from behind the lens and helps raise awareness of the world’s incredible, fragile marine and aquatic inhabitants and their environments.

     

    The Guru Awards – Photographic Competition

    The only international photography competition of its kind to incorporate a systematic Ethical Review for images submitted, the Underwater Tour Awards Team is committed to ensuring the natural world is depicted both creatively and honestly, with due regard shown to the welfare of all marine life and habitats.   All images

  3. Pineapple Fish (Cleidopus gloriamaris) - The Story behind 'Pineapple Swirl' by Louise Nott. Winner of the Aquatic Abstracts, underwater Tour 2020

    Story Behind the Shot “Pineapple Swirl”

    Contributed By : Louise Nott Nott

    Story Behind the Shot “Pineapple Swirl”

    Contributed By : Louise Nott Nott
    Louise Nott shares the story behind her Underwater Tour Awards 2020 Aquatic Abstract winning image “Pineapple Swirl"
  4. Mother and Calf Humpback at Tonga. Shot by John Thorogood

    Swimming with Whales – a True Bucket-list Experience (to be repeated as frequently as you can afford)

    Contributed By : John Thorogood Thorogood

    Swimming with Whales – a True Bucket-list Experience (to be repeated as frequently as you can afford)

    Contributed By : John Thorogood Thorogood

    The humpback whale is one of conservation’s great success stories. Hunted to a few thousand animals prior to a global ban in only 1985, populations of humpbacks around the world are on the rise . Spending time in the water with these awesome creatures is …. well awesome.

  5. Leafy Seadragon - the male Leafy Seadragon carries the pink egg mass until the babies hatch

    The Infamous Leafy Seadragon

    Contributed By : Daryll Rivett Rivett

    The Infamous Leafy Seadragon

    Contributed By : Daryll Rivett Rivett
    The Leafy Sea Dragon is one of the most ornate and camouflaged marine creatures in our oceans, amongst many other's - hence making it a highly sought-after photography subject and sight to witness.....
  6. Cowries and Ovulids

    Cowries and Ovulids

    Contributed By : Erika Antoniazzo Antoniazzo

    Cowries and Ovulids

    Contributed By : Erika Antoniazzo Antoniazzo
    Long prized by primitive people for their shape and attractive colors, Cowrie shells were widely used for money in ancient times.
  7. 11 Sharks You Should Know About This Summer

    11 Sharks You Should Know About This Summer

    11 Sharks You Should Know About This Summer

    Sharks have long been feared by people. Monsters that appear from the depths of the sea and take life after life, sentiments that have been enhanced by movies such as 'Jaws'.
  8. Shark Attacks in Perspective

    Shark Attacks in Perspective

    Shark Attacks in Perspective

    It turned out a pod of dolphins was cruising past and we were over the moon about having such a close encounter with these amazing mammals!
  9. Whyalla - Cuttlefish Mating Mecca and More

    Whyalla - Cuttlefish Mating Mecca and More

    Contributed By : Seanna Cronin Cronin

    Whyalla - Cuttlefish Mating Mecca and More

    Contributed By : Seanna Cronin Cronin
    A four-hour drive west of Adelaide, Whyalla is a seaside mining town known as the place “where the outback meets the sea”.
  10. When Titan's Attack - What Every Underwater Photographer Should Know

    When Titan's Attack - What Every Underwater Photographer Should Know

    Contributed By : JasonH H

    When Titan's Attack - What Every Underwater Photographer Should Know

    Contributed By : JasonH H
    Most underwater photographers who have spent any time in the Indo Pacific have come across the very photogenic Titan Triggerfish.
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