Australasian Digital Download - Winning Pics
The Australasian Digital Download was held 12-14 June 2004 in Jervis Bay - New South Wales - Australia aboard the Ocean Trek liveaboard.
This event was sponsored by Australian Scuba Diver Magazine, Olympus, Scubapro, Taka and Oceantrek. The competition consisted of 8 dives and at the end of the final day 5 images were submitted for Portfolio and 3 for each of the categories (Macro, Wideangle, Marine Life). There were 22 competitors whos used camera's ranging from D100's to Sony P9's.
I was fortunate enough to win a couple of prizes (including a trip to Walindi in PNG and new Olympus c5060 + housing). 
The winning pics can be viewed on my website at http://www.daveharasti.com/ and click on 'what's new' or the link on the right of the page
Below are some of my pics taken during the competition. All images were taken with a Nikon CP5000 in Ikelite Housing with dual Ikelite DS125 strobes.
Blue Devilfish - Best of Show
Pygmy Pipehorse (the pipehorse was only 2cm long!). I still can't believe I actually found this critter...
Red Indianfish (if you look carefully you can even see his footprint in the sand)
Additional images taken during the competition can be seen here:
http://www.daveharasti.com/photographer/di...load/index.html
Another competitor who frequents Wetpixel (Aengus M) also cleaned up in the competition winning the three categories (macro, wide angle and marine life). His images can be viewed here:
http://www.aengusm.com/images/Digital%20Do...ownload%202004/
