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Underwater Photo Contest | Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)

2701 Entries Found: Page 1  of  101
Shots that have been digitally edited outside of the camera for creative reasons (not brightness/contrast etc.) in a program like PhotoShop
New Diver exploring for the first time the jet engine powered Russian Destroyer M.V. Keith Tibbetts sunk by Jean-Michel Cousteau's team in 1996
shortlistedShortlisted!
CREVETTE ARLEQUIN Hymenocera picta 2022.01.18-148b
CREVETTE ARLEQUIN Hymenocera picta
REUNION 2022
MURENE TACHES JAUNES - Gymnothorax flavimarginatus
2022
Samarangersee
Autumn mood in the lake
shortlistedShortlisted!
Sexy Red
TITAN
"Hammer Forest" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. The nails are to create a kind of "forest" for the shark to swim through.
"Grass Famine" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work. Image is referencing the disappearance of manatee's food source in Florida.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2022

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A large and vibrantly red Slate Pencil Urchin. This is a single image, and urchin is 100% natural coloring in image. The only manipulation was a desaturated background.
Our days may be black or white, but our gaze of color gives us hope.
Softcoral Ghostgoby
ANEMON
CRAB
I wanted to create the illusion with this photo that this slug is crawling through a hoop...
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Hymenocera picta. Inspired by the work of Stefano Scortegagna (the boxer crab and anemon fish with twirling light)
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2022

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We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
- Anaïs Nin
Wonderland #2
Photographed in Maui, Hawaii
Sugar Plum Fairy
"Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.”
- Elbert Hubbard
"In Bloom #3," Photographed in Maui, HI.
Dancer: @Her.Stillness.Dances
Nikon D2x, Tokina 10-17mm, Subal housing
Coral Reef Expectations V3
Coral Reef Expectations V2
Reef Dream Worlds
Apples
South end of a North facing Angle fish. Just fading into the water as it swims away. Taken at Butler Bay, St. Croix.
closeup anemone
In the mirror
...
Jawfish was taken in the Lembeh Strait (Indonesia). Reflectios in the water are real and were photographed in the swimming pool before sunset (Rubik´s cube)
Swimming pool
Crocodile fish on great barrier reef
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