This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

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The Underwater Photography Guide magazine has been holding the Ocean Art photography contest for 8 years. The most amazing pictures of underwater beauties and inhabitants of the seas and oceans are evaluated by a competent jury in 16 nominations. This year, photographers from 78 countries of the world took part in the prestigious competition. The prize fund (including sponsorship nominations) amounted to 85 thousand dollars.

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019
The winner in the main category was French photographer Greg Lecour with a picture of a seal taken in Antarctica.

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Wide angle, 1st place, Nicholas More

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Wide angle, 2nd place, Tobias Friedrich

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Wide angle, 3rd place, Adam Martin

Macro, 1st place, Stefano Cherbay

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Macro, 2nd place, Wu Jung-sen

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Macro, 3rd place, Dave Johnson

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Behavior of marine life, 1st place, Paula Vianna

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Behavior of marine life, 2nd place, Paolo Bausani

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Behavior of marine life, 3rd place, Stephen Kovac

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Portrait, 1st place, Virginia Salzedo

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Portrait, 2nd place, Davide Lombroso

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Portrait, 3rd place, Claudo Zori

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Nudibranchs, 1st place, Jenny Stock

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Nudibranchs, 2nd place, Andrea Pescarolo

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Nudibranchs, 3rd place, Andrey Savin

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Super Macro, 1st place, Paolo Isgro

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Super Macro, 2nd place, Leon Zhao

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Super Macro, 3rd place, Paolo Isgro

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Riffschaft, 1st place, Eduardo Acevedo Fernandez

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Riefschaft, 2nd place, Nicholas More

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Riffschaft, 3rd place, Enrico Shomodi

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Black water, 1st place, Fabien Target

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Black water, 2nd place, Paolo Bausani

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Black water, 3rd place, Steven Kovac

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Preservation, 1st place, Shane Gross

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Preservation, 2nd place, Alessandro Grasso

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Preservation, 3rd place, Brooke Laurie Pike

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Underwater art, 1st place, Francisco Sedano

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Underwater art, 2nd place, Enrico Shomodi

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Underwater art, 3rd place, Jenny Stock

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Wide Angle, 1st place, George Kuo-Wei Kao

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Wide Angle, 2nd place, George Kuo-Wei Kao

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Wide Angle, 3rd place, George Kuo-Wei Kao

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Macro, 1st place, Jules Casey

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Macro, 2nd place, Michael Lo

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Newcomer, Macro, 3rd place, George Kuo-Wei Kao

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact wide angle, 1 seat, Grace Waist

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact wide angle, 2nd place, Minsik Ro

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact wide angle, 3rd place, Benhur Sarinda

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact macro, 1st place, Stan Chen

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact macro, 2nd place, Stan Chen

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact macro, 3rd place, Fabien Martinazzo

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact behavior, 1st place, Ferenc Lorincz

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact behavior, 2nd place, Fabien Martinazzo

This wonderful underwater world: the best pictures from the Ocean Art Underwater photography contest 2019

Compact behavior, 3rd place, Willy Iravan

Keywords: Masters of photography | Underwater world | Prize-winners

     

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