DAN has announced the winners of the 2012 Ocean Views competition on their Alert Diver online site. Deano Cook took first place with his split level image of a lemon shark in the Bahamas. He says of the image:

“As the sun was setting, I wanted to capture a quiet moment with one of the lemon sharks we had been photographing that afternoon. This particular shark was just as curious as I was, and what an amazing moment I was able to capture! His eye above the surface stares back at me, as if to show me he’s watching, too. Below the surface his mouth was just slightly open, showing off his sharp teeth.”

There is a full slide show of all the winning images, as well as a “bonus gallery” of other images from the contest. Hearty congratulations to all the photographers in the results, and especially to the many Wetpixel members featured.

2011-­‐12 Ocean Views Winners.

1st Place:

Deano Cook

2nd Place:

Raimundo Fernández Diez

3rd Place:

C.J.Kale

4th Place:

George Karbus

5th Place:

Linda Drake

6th Place:

John Sylvester

7th Place:

Steve Gould

8th Place:

Richard Wylie

9th Place:

Tobias Friedrich

10th Place:

Tobias Friedrich

11th Place:

Joshua Lambus

12th Place:

Justin Hofman

Highly Honored (in alphabetical order):

Tim Aiken, Jose Alejandro Alvarez, Aaron Feinberg, Dennis Frates, Tobias Friedrich, Peter Lik, Rod Strachan, Esteban Tore, Marli Wakeling, Jeff Yonover.