British Wildlife Photography Awards

I flew back to the UK yesterday, from photographing seahorses in the S. of France, to attend the award ceremony of the BWPA in London, where I was fortunate to win the "Coast and Marine" category with this portrait of a grey seal lounging in seaweeds. This is a competition aimed at celebrating the wildlife found in the UK, so most of the entries were from British photographers. I was pleased to do well in this competition and see my photo alongside many of the UK's best wildlife photographers, particularly because I am relatively new to diving in the UK.

Settings:

Nikon D700, Subal housing, Sigma 15mm FE, 2x Inon Z240 strobes. 1/160th @ f/13, ISO 800.

Other underwater photographers featured in the exhibition are Mark Thomas and Jane Morgan, and I also have a close up portrait of a tompot blenny featured too.

For those in the UK, a selection of the winning images are in many of today's newspapers (e.g. Times (not permanent link), Mail).

Alex

Congratulations man!

Really well deserved. Love those photos.

And thanks for sharing the technical details of your images as well. It really helps beginners like me understand a whole lot more.

great stuff - I really love Tompot shots! i can never find the buggers though.

Great Pics!

How do you get so close to the seal?? In Denmark they are really shy.

Gongrats Alex!!! Really nice job!

Thanks all.

They have posted a gallery of the winning images:

http://www.bwpawards.co.uk/winners/2009/

Alex

Congrats Alex...pass the Cheetos

Congratulations Alex - well deserved mate!

well deserved Alex...or "well done" as you Brits like to say!

Kudos Alex.

Rand ... I thought you were the Cheetos guy?

Kudos! And, you started drinking wine finally too.

Congrats Alex!!

Jolly good show Alex!

Good to see the D700 is on it's way to matching the masterpieces you created with the D2X.

And also great to see the benefit of the high ISO ability of the D700.

Incredible like always! Stay the best