The Digital Images Competition is now in its 5th year and hardly anyone uses anything other than digital cameras nowadays to shoot underwater. We may need to think of a new name for the future!
This year's competition was held at Len and Pat as usual and our guest of honour and judge this year was Dive Magazine Editor Simon Rogerson. Simon is also a very talented underwater photographer himself so his selection of images was not solely based on editorial potential!
This year's winner was Len Deeley with a shot taken at dawn under the jetty in Gangga. In second place, Anthony Holley's blue spotted ray with 2 cleaner wrasse drew a lot of attention. Bert Lee's scorpionfish looked extremely cuddly and was awarded third place.
The winners and commended images can be seen below. The slideshow of all images in competition can be viewed here.
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| Winner - Len Deeley | 2nd - Anthony Holley | 3rd - Bert Lee |
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Due to bad weather during the original competition days, it was decided that images taken the weekend of the British Splash-In Championship (12-13 July 2008) would be eligible.
This year's competition was judged by Graham Laughton Hon.PAGB, Chairman of the Croxley Camera Club which is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain.
This year's winner was Gillian Marsh, ahead of Mike Maloney and Maria Kjellen. Their images can be seen below, as well as the 5 Highly Commended entries.
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| Winner - Gillian Marsh | 2nd - Mike Maloney | 3rd - Maria Kjellen |
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This year, the 17th annual dinner was held at the Alton House Hotel on 23 Februry 2008. We were very proud to welcome our guests of honour Peter Scoones and Georgette Douwma who judged the competition.
A total of 88 digital images were projected in the Blue Water, Blue Water Advanced and Green Water Advanced categories. Unfortunately, no entries were submitted for the Green Water category.
For the first time this year, no slide images were received and it is predicted that the competition will only include digital images in the future.
To make the evening run more smoothly and prevent any issues with projection, judging was organised ahead of the evening.
The Blue Water category was won by Jan Maloney. JP Trenque took the Blue Water advanced category while Bob Soames scooped the truphy for Green Water Advanced. In the prints coompetition, Len Deeley's grouper was chosen as the winning image.
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| Winner - Jan Maloney | 2nd Wendy Eve | 3rd Jan Maloney |
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| Winner - JP Trenque | 2nd Len Deeley | 3rd Anthony Holley |
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| Winner - Bob Soames | 2nd Mike Maloney | 3rd Neil Lilly |