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| SEPTEMBER 2017 |
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Travel Photographer of the Year
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Travel Photographer of the Year
Closing Date: 25th September 2017
This year's awards are open for entries with new categories and themes. The judging panel welcomes back award winning photographer, Eamonn McCabe, Travel Editor of Vanity Fair, Michelle Jana Chan, and our first Asian-based.
Last year's winners can be seen in the 2016 winners' gallery and the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 is Portuguese photographer, Joel Santos. The Young Travel Photographer of the Year is 14 year old Darpan Basak from India.
Photographers from 20 countries featured amongst the winners and the already high standard of entries rose further that year. |
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OCTOBER 2017 |
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San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
This is a “Call for Entry” for the 2017 San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (SDUFEX) that will take place Friday and Saturday evenings, October 6th and 7th, 2017 at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, California.
This is your opportunity to see your work projected in a High Definition format in a state of the art venue on a 30’ screen. An independent panel of distinguished judges will select the approximately 30 films to be shown during the two-night event. There is no entry fee! Filmmakers whose films are selected are encouraged to come to the show and introduce their film(s) in person on the night of the exhibition.
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San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
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| The top three films as selected by an audience vote each night will be awarded prizes. The films with the highest number of votes each night will be awarded cash prizes of $500, $250, and $100 respectively for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. |
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| MARCH 2018 |
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Celebrate the Sea 2018
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Celebrate the Sea Festival
Manado Sulewesi
31 March 2018 - 5 April 2018
Ocean Geographic is pleased to announce the 13th Celebrate the Sea Festival in Manado, North Sulawesi from 31 March - 5 April 2018. Previously staged in association with the World Festival of Underwater Pictures (Le Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous-Marine – Marseille) from 2002 to 2013, Celebrate the Sea is regarded as one of the most significant underwater photographic events in the world outside Europe. The 2018 festival in Manado will take place in conjunction with the 5th annual ‘Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year’ competition.
The principal highlight of the 2018 festival is the international underwater shoot-out competition. With cash and holiday prize monies valued at around USD 50,000 spread across five categories and the 'Master of the Competition' award. |
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| JUNE 2018 |
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Lembeh vs Gulen Shootout 2018
The SHOOTOUT, which will be held from 15 to 23 June 2018, will again pitch two teams head to head in a live underwater photography contest. A team from the beautiful Gulen Dive Resort (www.gulendiveresort.com) in Norway will be competing with their opposing team at the equally beautiful Lembeh Resort (www.lembehresort.com) in Indonesia. The first contest, in 2016, resulted in the narrowest of last-minute victories for the team from Lembeh. |
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| The 2018 event is proud to announce that captaining the Lembeh team will be the world-renown professional underwater photographer, Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and in the corner for Gulen will be another big hitter of the underwater imaging world, Keri Wilk. (www.keriwilk.com). |
