Greg Lecouer snapped his successful photograph, titled Frozen Cellular House, after touring to Antarctica on a small yacht to report ocean existence round icebergs.
© Greg Lecouer/UPY2020of crabeater seals swirling round an iceberg gained French photographer Greg Lecoeur the name of Underwater Photographer of the Yr for 2020 in an annual UK-based festival. Lecoeur took the photograph, titled Frozen Cellular House, within the waters off Antarctica. He’d traveled there to photograph marine existence in and round icebergs, which he dubbed “cellular properties.”
“Icebergs fertilize the oceans via sporting vitamins from land that spark blooms of marine existence and likewise supply properties for higher animals, like those crabeater seals,” Lecoeur, of Great, France, stated in a observation.
Lecoeur’s symbol was once tops some of the five,500 pictures submitted via underwater photographers from 70 nations.
Pasquale Vassallo was once named Marine Conservation Photographer of the Yr in the similar contest for his photograph Final Daybreak, Final Gasp, appearing a tuna being hauled right into a fishing boat within the Mediterranean Sea, close to his homeland of Naples, Italy.
A tuna’s remaining moments had been captured within the symbol Final Daybreak, Final Gasp, taken via Pasquale Vassallo.
© Pasquale Vassallo/UPY2020“The sea faces many threats, together with local weather exchange, overfishing and plastic air pollution,” Alexander Mustard, chair of the contest, stated in a observation. “The conservation segment of the Underwater Photographer of the Yr offers a platform for the photographers, who’re our eyes in and at the ocean seeing those problems first-hand.”
Austrian photographer Anita Kainrath was once named Up & Coming Underwater Photographer of the Yr for Shark Nursery, which displays child lemon sharks swimming in a mangrove within the Bahamas.
“I used to be status in knee-high water, looking to grasp my digital camera nonetheless, looking forward to the sharks, whilst mosquitoes and sand-flies had been feasting on me!” Kainrath stated in a observation. “After about an hour, the lemon shark doggies in any case got here into photographic vary and I used to be ready to make this symbol.”
Greater than 100 of the successful pictures will also be seen on the contest website.
