Australasian Digital Download - Winning Pics

[Dave H 0]

The Australasian Digital Download was held 12-14 June 2004 in Jervis Bay - New South Wales - Australia aboard the Ocean Trek liveaboard.

 

This event was sponsored by Australian Scuba Diver Magazine, Olympus, Scubapro, Taka and Oceantrek. The competition consisted of 8 dives and at the end of the final day 5 images were submitted for Portfolio and 3 for each of the categories (Macro, Wideangle, Marine Life). There were 22 competitors whos used camera's ranging from D100's to Sony P9's.

 

I was fortunate enough to win a couple of prizes (including a trip to Walindi in PNG and new Olympus c5060 + housing). The winning pics can be viewed on my website at http://www.daveharasti.com/ and click on 'what's new' or the link on the right of the page

 

Below are some of my pics taken during the competition. All images were taken with a Nikon CP5000 in Ikelite Housing with dual Ikelite DS125 strobes.

 

Blue Devilfish - Best of Show

 

Pygmy Pipehorse (the pipehorse was only 2cm long!). I still can't believe I actually found this critter...

 

Red Indianfish (if you look carefully you can even see his footprint in the sand)

 

Additional images taken during the competition can be seen here:

http://www.daveharasti.com/photographer/di...load/index.html

 

Another competitor who frequents Wetpixel (Aengus M) also cleaned up in the competition winning the three categories (macro, wide angle and marine life). His images can be viewed here:

http://www.aengusm.com/images/Digital%20Do...ownload%202004/

[kdietz 0]

Awesome shots Dave........nice to see the cp5000 continuing to crank out great shots....of course with your eye behind it

 

BTW, I sold my 5000/Ikelite rig to a young lady in NSW Australia...she should receive it this week

 

Karl

[herbko 0]

Congrats Dave. Beautiful shots! You'll love Walindi.

[Lndr 0]

Hey Dave,

 

Congrats again on the win !

 

The Bleakers Blue Devil is a really nice shot

 

cheers

Leander

[yahsemtough 0]

Great shots Dave! From another ex-5000 user.