Photo Competition 2008-09

The 2008-09 competition runs from July 08 until June 09. Send us your entries NOW!

underwater.com.au is very excited to announce our 5th annual Photo Competition that gives underwater australasia members the opportunity to win some fantastic prizes and have their images judged by an experienced panel. This year we have over $15,000 worth in prizes to give away!

Check out the winners of the last four competitions so far.

Prizes and Categories

There are two categories:

Novice Category

Taking underwater photos for one year or less

Open Category

Everybody else

Total beginners can decide to enter in the Open category, but once you submit photos in Open you can't go back to Novice.

Monthly winners will receive T-Shirt Prizes. Main prize winners will be chosen from monthly winners in July 2009.

Prizes Open Category:

Two week dive holiday in Yap and Palau, Mirconesia courtesy of Traders' Ridge Resort and Fish 'n Fins

Win an Apollo Edge Dry Suit. The new 4mm Microcell neoprene offers warmth and flexibility without bulk, adjustable neoprene seals, strong nylon jersey material inside and out.

6 Days/5 Nights Cocotinos Dive Package for One Diver in Manado, Sulawesi

Prizes Novice Category:

3 nights / 12 dives on the Great Barrier Reef; world famous Cod Hole and pristine Ribbon Reefs with Mike Ball Expeditions. *Reef tax, fuel surcharge and Lizard Island flight $245 (if applicable) are not included.

The S-Sun 1800 Candlepower dive light. Thanks to Apollo.

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How to enter

By entering this competition you must have read and agreed to the terms and conditions outlined below.

The email link to send your images to is available to logged in members on the members welcome page. Non-members need to join for free before being able to access that page.

Terms and Conditions

• This competition is open to amateurs, people who derive no taxable income from their photography. If you have won a competition before, you can still enter, but if you have sold any of your photos and paid tax on that sale, you no longer qualify as an amateur with regards to this contest.
• Entry is open to members of underwater.com.au (site membership is FREE) as well as underwater card holders.
• Entry to this competition is FREE
• Entries can be posted electronically after logging into the website, and agreeing to these terms and conditions.
• Only images taken underwater (over-under shots are permitted) and in countries covered by underwater.com.au can be entered (Australia, Cambodia, East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Polynesia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam) Entries submitted must not have won any other photographic competition, either locally or internationally and not been submitted to the underwater.com.au gallery before.
• Submissions can only be digital, but scanned slides or photographs are permitted. Please submit images as best possible quality JPG or TIFF files (unzipped). Files over 15 megabyte must be burned onto CD and posted to PO Box 1753, Byron Bay, NSW 2481.
• Submissions must include photographers full name, a title and a short description including the place and date (month/year) where each photo was taken as well as the equipment used.
• Maximum number of images entered per photographer per month is 5 - but feel free to submit more of your images to our underwater.com.au gallery.
• Underwater.com.au retains the right to publish any submitted photo in our underwater.com.au gallery, in electronic and printed promotional material for underwater.com.au (like the underwater.com.au Guide to Underwater Australia, the underwater.com.au postcards etc) as well as exhibition spaces such as dive shows and in those cases there will be no payment for the use of the copyright. We will not sell or give away the rights to use your photographs to any third party without seeking prior consent.
• Monthly entries will be judged by the underwater.com.au team. No correspondence will be entered into.
• Overall winners will be selected from monthly winners (July 2008 - June 2009 for the new comp) by the underwater.com.au team, Richard Vevers from Underwater Australia as well as internationally reknowned underwater photography legend Michael Aw
• Prize winners will be announced on the website as well as in our monthly underwater eNEWS and occasionally in DiveLog, Scuba Diver Australasia, X-Ray Mag and other publications - winners will also be notified via email after judging has taken place.
• All decisions of the judges are final, and not subject to review.
• Final Winners will be announced in July/August 2009