Diver call-up for Ocean Art 2025

The 2025 version of the Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition, now in its 14th 12 months, has opened for entries.

Offering greater than US $60,000 in prizes, the annual contest is organised by on-line useful resource the Underwater Photography Guide and geared toward everybody from newbie to skilled photographers world wide.

Entries might be made into any of 14 classes. Regarded as the highest brackets are Wide Angle, Macro and Marine Life Behaviour, every of which has a corresponding Compact Camera class. This 12 months an innovation sees smartphones and action-cameras included with compacts.

Other sections embody Black & White, Marine Life Portrait, Cold/Temperate Water, Blackwater, Underwater Conservation and Nudibranchs. 

The Underwater Fashion and Underwater Digital Art classes differ from the others in that they permit full freedom in post-processing. 

The prizes encompass scuba-diving holidays supplied by resorts and liveaboards, and underwater photo-gear producers. Winners from every class can rank the prizes they would like to obtain, making it extra probably that they’ll obtain a reward they need.

The judging panel consists of Tony Wu, Marty Snyderman, Mark Strickland and Ipah Uid Lynn, and the competitors is organised by Nirupam Nigam, editor-in-chief of Underwater Photography Guide, the place the 50+ successful photos will seem, Bluewater Photo and Bluewater Travel.

Entry payment is US $10 (£7.50) per {photograph} (or 11 for $100) they usually must be submitted by 11 December, 2025. Divernet will report on the winners in January.