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Randall Benton wins Wetpixel Picture of the Year 2009
Last Update: 12 February 2010 09:57 PM
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Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
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Wetpixel's Picture of the Year 2009, by Randall Benton
Congratulations to Randall Benton (bentoni) for winning Wetpixel’s Picture of the Year 2009 with his image of photographer Doug Perrine below a large manta ray at the famous Kona night manta dive. Benton’s image beat out 43 other fantastic images during 30 days of public voting.
For his winning image, Benton scores a one-week trip aboard the M/V Solmar V, a liveaboard dive vessel that runs dive trips to Socorro, the Sea of Cortez, and to Guadalupe for great white sharks. Jose Luis of Solmar V writes:
“Congratulations from the Solmar V on a fantastic image! We are especially partial to giant manta shots. We truly look forward to introducing you to the gianta mantas of socorro where you will have great photo ops - up close and personal - with these amazing creatures.”
Be sure to enter our Picture of the Week contest. At the end of 2010, you’ll all have a shot at winning the next picture of the year. Special thanks to our POTW sponsors, Ikelite and Solmar V.
Awesome photo. Congrats Randall on the well deserved award!
Posted by Kari Post on 02/12 at 09:58 PMYes a great shot and a well deserved winner.
Stew
Posted by stewsmith on 02/13 at 11:31 AMI did not recognize Doug without his sun protection on. Congrats!
Posted by Cornforth Images on 02/13 at 08:33 PMJob well done and Congrads!
Posted by Arthur Koch on 02/14 at 05:26 AMThank you all who voted, and for all the generous comments here, as well. With so many spectacular photos competing in this group, any one of them could have (perhaps should have) won. So I am thrilled to have won, but at the same time humbled by the competition. Congratulations to all the POTW winners!
Posted by bentoni on 02/14 at 10:57 AMcongrats!!!
Posted by mk-3 on 02/16 at 01:19 AM