DIVE’s Large Shot Residing Collectively – THE WINNERS!

Try the profitable and extremely counseled pictures from our Large Shot Residing Collectively underwater images competitors – as featured in our Summer season ’25 print journal

There are as many desirable relationships within the underwater atmosphere as there are fascinating creatures that inhabit it.

However fairly often, it’s solely while you decelerate and look actually carefully that you simply get a way of them, from the predatory to the pushy, and from the symbiotic to the sociable.

Images offers us extraordinary entry to those interactions, whether or not it’s the playfulness of dolphins, as captured by this difficulty’s Large Pictures winner, Stephanie Doniger, or mutually advantageous preparations resembling Harun Dumanli’s extremely counseled eel and shrimp.

Stephanie wins an Aggressor Adventures’ liveaboard journey in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. The extremely counseled every obtain a 12 months’s print and digital subscription to DIVE Journal, whereas the opposite entries revealed obtain a digital subscription alone.

Thanks all for getting into!

For our subsequent difficulty, the theme is Patterns and Textures. We need to see pictures that discover all features of marine and freshwater life.

That may imply the fragile construction of coral, the bizarre play of daylight on the floor up above or an extravagantly patterned cephalopod – let your creativeness be your information.

The winner, chosen by DIVE’s editorial workers, will obtain a visit on an Aggressor Adventures liveaboard within the Purple Sea, value £1,993.

Enter DIVE’s Large Shot Patterns and Textures right here

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WINNER – DIVE’s Large Shot Residing Collectively

‘Playtime’ by Stephanie Doniger

Snorkelling with a pod of dolphins at Sataya Reef, Egypt. It was fairly the work out to maintain up with them!

Shot with: Sony A7RV, Nauticam FCP, 28-60mm lens, Nauticam housing; f8, 1/500, ISO 640

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‘Open Large’, by Harun Dumanli

Taken at a cleansing station in Tulamben, Bali. I first watched for a very long time to create a bond between us.

Shot with: OM-1 M.ZUIKO, 30mm f/3.5 macro lens, AOI OM-1 housing, Marelux Apollo III strobe, Undervision vast angle snoot; f/8, 1/160, ISO 100

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‘Mobula Cloud’, by Vanessa Mignon

Monumental numbers of mobula rays migrate and congregate in Baja California twice a 12 months, the biggest mobula migration on the planet.

Shot with: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 8-15 mm fisheye lens, Nauticam housing, pure gentle; f4, 1/500, ISO 500

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‘True Love’, by Jules Casey

A synthetic reef designed to draw octopus to the world proved an prompt success, with the pipes a secure place for them to breed. I discovered these two pale octopus (Octopus pallidus) getting ready to mate.

Shot with: Olympus EM1 mark 2, Isotta housing, Kraken Sports activities KRS-02 strobes, 8mm fisheye lens; f9, 1/250, ISO 200

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‘Desk for Two’, by Theresa Guise

A hawksbill turtle and a wrasse share a meal within the Southern Purple Sea. The turtle was feeding on coral and the wrasse adopted to choose up the scraps.

Shot with: Nikon Z8, Nikkor z 25-50mm, Nauticam housing, WACP, RetraPromax strobes

‘Star High quality’, by Fabi Fregonesi

A fascinating second of interplay amongst sea lions of their pure habitat at Los Islotes, Mexico. The one within the foreground seems to be inviting us into their starfish sport.

Shot with: Canon 5D, Aquatica housing, EF15mm f/2.8 fisheye; f9, 1/250, ISO 250

‘Decide Me’, by Jules Casey

These male big-belly seahorses have been making an attempt to realize the eye of a close-by feminine underneath Rye Pier, Port Phillip Bay, Australia.

Shot with: Olympus EM1 Mk 2, Isotta housing, Kraken Sports activities KRS-02 strobes, 12-40 mm lens; f13, 1 /250, ISO 200

‘Straightforward Rider’, by Kirsty Andrews

This picture was taken in just one metre of water, in a bay in north-west Scotland.

Shot with: Nikon D500, Nauticam housing, Retra Flash professional strobes, Retra reflectors; f20, 1/250, ISO 250

‘Mom and Child’, by Nur Tucker

Sea lions at a protected colony on Los Islotes, Mexico. Pups come out of their nurseries at round two to 3 months outdated and are very playful and interactive with divers.

Shot with: Nikon D500, Subal ND500 housing, Inon Z240 strobes, Tokina 10- 17 mm fisheye lens; f11, 1/200, ISO 400

‘Symphony of Stripes’, by Shinto Okay Anto

A decent formation of striped eel catfish shifting in good unison in Anilao, Philippines; f22, 1/200, ISO 250

‘Mellow Yellow’ by Michael Gallagher,

Garbage is a large drawback for our oceans however these gobies discover shelter of their discarded beer bottle dwelling in Anilao, the Philippines.

Shot with: Canon 5D3, Hugyfot housing, Inon Z240 strobes; f16, 1/200, ISO 400

‘Good Match’, by Lawrence G Watkins

This whip coral goby is completely nestled among the many coral, taken within the Maldives.

Shot with: Nikon Z8, Nikkor 24- 50mm lens, Nauticam WWL-C, Nauticam housing, Backscatter HF-1 strobes; f/29, 1/200, ISO 100

‘Infants on Board’, by Marcia Riederer

Male weedy seadragons carry their shiny pink eggs fastidiously hooked up to a brood patch underneath their tails. These have been photographed beneath Portsea Pier, Australia.

Shot with: Sony A7RV, 14mm, Isotta housing, Inon strobes; f/9, 1/250, ISO 400

‘Besties’, by Lureen Ferretti

As ocean water temperatures fall, manatees retreat to the hotter water flowing from the Florida Springs. This lovable pair remained side-by-side throughout my whole encounter with them.

Shot with: Canon 70D, Nauticam housing, Tokina 10-17 fisheye lens; f8, 1/125, ISO 800

‘Curly Wurly’, by Valerie Cornet

Euphyllia coral gives each shelter and meals supply for this tiny orangutan crab in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Shot with: Nikon D810, Nikon AF Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 D macro lens, Sea & Sea housing, Ikelite DS160 strobes; f/20, 1/250, ISO 64

‘Pimp my Experience’, by Miguel Ramirez

These emperor shrimp profit from the safety of their poisonous nudibranch host, in Tulamben, Indonesia.

Shot with: Nikon D500, Hugyfot housing, 85mm lens, Nikon Z330 strobes; f29, 1/250, ISO 100

‘Purple Patch’, by Michael Gallagher

A comfy spot for this blackfoot anemonefish at Raa Atoll within the Maldives.

Shot with: Canon 20D, 17-40mm zoom lens, Ikelite housing, Ikelite DS-125 strobes; f4.5, 1/80, ISO 200

‘Simbiosis’, by Vanessa Mignon

Hearth urchins don’t appear to profit from Coleman shrimp, which feed on their tentacles.

Shot with: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 50mm, Nauticam housing, Inon strobes; f20, 1/200, ISO 200

‘All Dolled Up’, by Peter McGee

This crab – noticed in Sydney Harbour – is utilizing anemones as safety in opposition to predators.

Shot with: Sony NEX7 digicam, Sony 30mm macro lens, Backscatter Mini Flash; f13, 1/100, ISO 200

‘Rising Up’, by Vanessa Mignon

The bond between mom and calf is powerful, however these humpback whales will solely keep collectively for a 12 months.

Shot with: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 16-35 mm f4, Nauticam housing; f4, 1/400, ISO 200

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