The 2025 iteration of the Underwater Awards Australasia – an underwater pictures competitors centered on the Australasia area is now open and accepting entries.
The competitors, a three-way collaboration between Underwater Australasia, underwater pictures and videography useful resource DivePhotoGuide, and underwater imaging tools and dive gear distributor UW Pictures, will culminate in an exhibition at Go Diving Present ANZ in September 2025.
The judging panel this 12 months contains internationally famend underwater photographers Tobias Friedrich, Jayne Jenkins, Matty Smith, Tanya Houppermans, Scott Portelli and William Tan; and video judges Philip Hamilton and Ross Lengthy.
The prizes, value greater than AU$70,000 in whole, embrace dive journeys with the world’s prime resorts and liveaboards, in addition to the newest underwater photograph and video gear—even an underwater pictures drone and an underwater scooter with photographic platform.
Entrants compete for prizes in 9 classes, together with Sharks, Sydney, Conservation, Australian, Worldwide, Robust GH, Portfolio and Smartphone/Motion Cam.
Videographers can enter the competitors’s distinctive ‘Reels Showcase’ video class by creating an Instagram Reel of 90 seconds or much less, not less than 50 per cent of which should. The highest picture or video among the many class winners receives the excellence of Better of Present.
The competitors requires passionate underwater photographers from around the globe to submit their most charming pictures and movies from the Australasian area.
Winners will likely be revealed on UnderwaterCompetition.com and revealed by supporting media companions worldwide shortly thereafter. There’s a US$10 entry charge per picture or video entered.
For extra particulars and to submit your pictures and movies, head to the Underwater Awards Australasia 2025 entry web page.
