Underwater Photographer scoops BIUPC title for third time

Published 7 years agoon September 20, 2019

Trevor Rees, a prolific British underwater photographer has won the British and Irish Underwater Photography Championship for the third time. The Championship engages British and Irish photographers in a demanding on-the-day shoot out, where competitors can chose to dive anywhere in the UK or Ireland, but they have limited time to take photographs and submit them to the judges. There are strict limits on image processing.

BIUPC 2019 Champion and wide-angle winner Trevor Rees

At the announcement in London last night, the Chairman of the British Society of Underwater Photographers Paul Colley revealed that both British and Irish photographers had shared honours overall, but the judges had given top marks to Trevor’s in-camera composite of an anemone, which won the wide-angle category and overall Championship. As well as the individual trophies, Trevor retains the Peter Scoones trophy, which was created in memory of BSoUP’s most famous founding father.

Karen Ho won best newcomer and Jane Morgan took the close-up category with a striking colourful rendition of an amphipod in an anemone. The recently-established new category for mankind’s impact on the environment was won by Yo-Han Cha, chairman of the Northern Underwater Photography Group and the compact category was won by Grant McCarry.

Winner Mankind’s Impact on the Environment Yo-Han Cha

You can see the full list of winners, runners-up and commended images at this BSoUP web link.

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