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R British Waters Wide Angle - Winner
Divebomb by Kat Zhou
I took this photo during a trip to dive with Northern Gannets in Shetland . The experience of being amid dive-bombing gannets is both chaotic and adrenaline-fueled , and it was hard to choose where to aim my camera . I tried to photograph any bird that zoomed by , and I was pleasantly surprised when I later saw how this shot was able to depict the dynamic motion of the experience .
Q Wrecks - Runner Up
Illuminating the Past by Becky Kagan Schott
This is an image I ’ ve been trying to perfect for almost six years . I ’ ve had various conditions on the wreck of the Kyle Spangler over the years and tried to get this shot several times . Once there was too much ambient light so the lights didn ’ t punch through the water as much and it looked dull . At other times , the visibility wasn ’ t good or the thermocline came down too far , which cut the top of the 30 metre tall mast off . The wreck sits in about 60 metres of cold water in the Great Lakes , so there ’ s little time down there to shoot . This past summer we had stellar conditions and I ’ m grateful to Jesper Rydstron and Fredrik Christiansson for modelling . It was dark enough that the lights really created a ghostly image of this wooden schooner that sank in 1860 .
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