Scubaverse UWP Winners Gallery: Giacomo Rossi

Published 5 years agoon September 13, 2021

Each month we give the winner of the Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition the opportunity to show off a little more of their work in a gallery. The August winner was Giacomo Rossi and you can see his winning image at the top of this page.

What do you love about diving & underwater photography?

Underwater photography for me is my way to freeze with an image the emotion that I feel, with the purpose to transmit the same emotion to the person that views my image. My passion for the ocean and his inhabitants is growing day after day, and now, in our specific time as civilization on planet Earth, where the nature is challenging with major environmental changes induced by mankind, I feel the responsibility to transmit my love for the ocean with the hope to help the protection of this incredible blue planet. This is also the mission of my company Baja Underwater Expeditions, which offers personalized eco-tourism around the peninsula to experience all of its most exciting residents and visitors up close and personal. My work is available on my web site www.behindthedome.com or on my Instagram profile @baja_underwater_expeditions.

What equipment do you use?

I use a Sony mirrorless A6300 with Nauticam housing and his accessories. Recently I change my Sea&Sea strobes for the new Scuba Lamp D-MAX that offer me the right quality of illumination. I normally shot with a fisheye lens (16mm+adapter) behind a ZEN dome. Or a 19mm Sigma with the Nauticam WWL-1, that offers the best image quality over all the others combinations. For macro I use the Sony 90mm plus Subsea +10 close up lens with the amazing Blackwater Mini Flash with Snoot.

To enter the latest Scubaverse Underwater Photography competition, with a chance to win some great prizes as well as have your own gallery published, head over to the competition page and upload up to three images.

Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown

Nick and Caroline (Frogfish Photography) are a married couple of conservation driven underwater photo-journalists and authors. Both have honours degrees from Manchester University, in Environmental Biology and Biology respectively, with Nick being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a former high school science teacher with a DipEd in Teaching Studies. Caroline has an MSc in Animal Behaviour specializing in Caribbean Ecology. They are multiple award-winning photographers and along with 4 published books, feature regularly in the diving, wildlife and international press They are the Underwater Photography and Deputy Editors at Scubaverse and Dive Travel Adventures. Winners of the Caribbean Tourism Organization Photo-journalist of the Year for a feature on Shark Diving in The Bahamas, and they have been placed in every year they have entered. Nick and Caroline regularly use their free time to visit schools, both in the UK and on their travels, to discuss the important issues of marine conservation, sharks and plastic pollution. They are ambassadors for Sharks4Kids and founders of SeaStraw. They are Dive Ambassadors for The Islands of The Bahamas and are supported by Mares, Paralenz, Nauticam and Olympus. To find out more visit www.frogfishphotography.com