Best photos underwater photography contest Bashny.Net

We bring you the pictures of photographs taken under water and nomirovavshiesya for the award «Underwater Photography Contest - 2011". Very fascinating footage turned out.

University of Miami, school-based atmospheric and marine research, "Rosenstiel" holds the competition annually. In 2011, the competition was attended by about 600 photos that submitted by participants from 20 countries. The absolute winner of the competition was the German Tobias Friedrich, photographed in Egypt two transparent gobies.





Briton Michael Gallagher took the first place in the category of macro photography. To this end, the photographer shot closeup well camouflaged pygmy seahorse. You see it?



Nudibranchs Clam photographed Spaniard Jordi Benitez brought the last second in macrocategories. The frame is made in the Spanish Catalonia.



Mantis shrimp and shellfish, nudibranchs sit comfortably side by side in the waters near the island of Bali. The picture is made malaziykoy Erica Antonyatstsi. She is third in the category "Macro".



Picture taken at the mouth of the Eastern Scheldt (Netherlands water area). Luc Ruman from Belgium captured the courtship of two cuttlefish (in the foreground). But he is not alone was a spectator :) First place in the category "Pictures taken with a wide angle lens."



Spaniard David Barrio Kolones was second in the same category. In the photo - Cardinals minor (name of the species of fish) swim about stingrays near the Canary Islands.



The third in the same category was an Irishman Jackie Campbell, who shot shoal of barracuda in the Red Sea.



The winner of the category "Portraits of sea creatures" - Steven Kovacs and jellyfish in the Gulf of Lake Worth, Florida, USA.



Susan Mears, a frame with a fish-urchin, was second in the category "Portraits of marine life." The work is done in the same place and the winner.



The third "portrait" became the Belgian Luc Ruman (his work has already been mentioned). In the photo - frog from the Belgian lakes.



Among the students, all three places have got a very promising student of the University of Miami - Laura Rock. The first - a triggerfish from the islands of Fiji.



Second - the whale shark to the Western Australian Ningaloo Reef.



Third - Cleaner wrasse, from the islands of Fiji.