Announcement

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:13 PM

Blending in

Beth Watson's photo of an anemone shrimp in the waters off Puerto Galera in the Philippines won first place in the "Macro" category of the Underwater Photography Contest.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:14 PM

Three amigos

An emperor shrimp (Periclimenes imperator) straddles two nudibranches (Risbecia tryoni) at Dinah's Beach in Papua New Guinea. The picture by Pennsylvania photographer Douglas Good earned second place in the "Macro" category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:15 PM

Not too crabby

Italy's Frederica Bambi won third place in the "Macro" category for this picture of a porcelain crab (Neopetrolisthes maculatus) on an anemone at Pescador Island in the Philippines.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:16 PM

Night dive

A juvenile lionfish is captured on camera during a night dive in Roatan, Honduras. Florida photographer Steven Kovacs' picture won first place in the "Fish or Marine Life Portrait" category of the Underwater Photography Contest.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:17 PM

Polka-dot octopus

Italy's Marcello DiFrancesco won second place in the "Fish or Marine Life Portrait" category for this picture of a greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) near Malapascua Island in the Philippines.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:18 PM

Mouthful of eggs

A male banded jawfish shows off his clutch of eggs at the Blue Heron Bridge in Riviera Beach, Fla. The picture by Florida's Judy Townsend won third place in the "Fish or Marine Life Portrait" category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:19 PM

1st Place Wide Angle

A lionfish floats past the Thistlegorm wreck in the Red Sea while schools of other fish swarm nearby. British photographer Alex Tattersall's photo of the scene won first place in the "Wide Angle" category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:20 PM

Dolphins' delight

Dolphins swim in a small inlet off Hawaii's Kona Coast. The image by New York photographer Joseph Tepper won second place in the "Wide Angle" category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:21 PM

Under the sea

Raccoon butterfly fish and angelfish swim around a reef in the Red Sea, near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The picture by Italy's Pietro Cremone won third place in the "Wide Angle" category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:22 PM

The giant emerges

A Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) makes its presence known during the annual spawning event in Jupiter, Fla. The picture won Florida's Laura Rock first place in the student photography category.

**Sush02** · 01-09-2013, 02:23 PM

Catching a shark

Florida's Austin Gallagher won third place in the Underwater Photography Contest's student category for this picture of an oceanic white tip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) near Cat Island in the Bahamas.