The Underwater Photography Guide has announced that it is accepting entries for the 2024 edition of the annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.
Ocean Art 2024 consists of 14 categories total, with the top categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Marine Life Behavior and three corresponding compact camera categories.
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.
This year’s competition features over US$60,000 (~€54,330) in prizes.
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.
Among the grand prizes are:
- 7-night dive package in Roatan with Anthony’s Key Resort;
- 10-night liveaboard dive trip in Papua New Guinea with Walindi Plantation Resort;
- 8-day, 16-dive adventure for two in Raja Ampat with Meridian Adventure;
- 7-night liveaboard dive trip with Bilikiki Cruises in the Solomon Islands;
- 10-day dive trip with Mermaid Liveaboards in Raja Ampat or Komodo;
- 7-night dive trip in Indonesia aboard the Coralia Liveaboard;
- 14-night dive trip to Ambon Indonesia with Spice Island Divers;
- 8-day dive trip to the Galapagos with Andean Travel Company.
In addition to new judge Ipah Uid Lynn from Malaysia, the returning judges will include Tony Wu, Marty Snyderman and Mark Strickland.
Photos must be submitted before the deadline of 23:59 PST on November 30, 2024.
More information can be found on the Ocean Art Photo Competition page.
