3rd Place winner
Cave diving
DESCRIPTION
Cave diving is a very interesting but also very difficult sport. This photo shows a diver in the cave "Coop 1" in Yucatan, Mexico. The shape of the cave, together with the stalactites, resembles the mouth of a giant and the picture creates the illusion of a diver swimming through this huge jagged mouth. A total of five underwater flashes and other special underwater photographic equipment were used to take this photograph. AUTHOR
I have been a photographer for a long time and after I started diving in 2003, I took this hobby to the underwater world. So now I shoot both "above water" and "under water". I have visited different parts of the world, from warm southern oceans and seas, to geographically temperate places, to northern areas with very cold water. In recent years I have focused on photography in flooded cave systems in the Yucatan. This Mexican peninsula is home to the largest flooded cave systems in the world, hundreds of kilometres long. The world of flooded caves absolutely captivates me and compels me to capture this beauty in photographs and share it with others. 