All the competitors and assistants.

Me and Thomas Ravn

Before we went onboard the dive boats, we had to take a photo of one of the judges. and then another photo of a judge after the last dive of the day. So that the photos in between could only have been taken in the competition.

One of the dive boats

One of the RIBs use by the judges

FAUNA

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT WITH MODEL

OPEN TOPIC

MEDITERRANEAN WRASSE

MACRO

October 2013. Editor-in-chief Henrik Pontoppidan made an article about MIMA featuring my underwater Photos.

The organizers of the Underwater Festival MIMA in Costa Brava, Spain, 5/6 - 9/6, had decided that they wanted to invite a Danish underwater photographer this year to participate in their underwater photo competition. They asked the Danish Sportsdiving Federation about a Danish underwater photographer, and lucky for me my name came up!
With me as my Buddy/Model I had my friend Thomas Ravn, who was a great help during the competition! :-) 

I didn't finish in the top, but I had heaps of fun and learned a lot!!!
It was a splash-in competition with six categories spread over just four dives.

-fauna
-environment
-environment with model
-open topic
-mediterranean wrasse
-macro


The six first photos in the folder are my competition entries. The rest are shots that I had to deselect. And some of them are just the shots taken up to the ones I chose for the competition.

Equipment used: Nikon D300. Sea&Sea housing. Twin YS110a strobes. Lenses: Tokina 10-17mm FE & Nikon 105mm macro. Extras: SubSee +10 dioptre

Follow this link for the winning photos: http://www.facebook.com/mimamedes?fref=ts