World Shootout 2020 – Pictures of your life

Published 6 years agoon August 25, 2020

This year, due to the many challenges and restrictions introduced by the Coronavirus worldwide, World Shootout decided to hold their competition in a liberating concept – Pictures of Your Life. Photographers were invited to submit their underwater images captured anywhere and anytime in the world to 13 different categories.

682 photographers from 64 countries around the world have submitted thousands of images and videos to the competition this year. Here are the winners:

Best Picture of 2020

World Shootout / Jeff Milisen: Best of 2020

Best 5 Images

World Shootout / Eduardo Acevedo: Best 5

Amateurs

Wide Angle

Macro

UW Fashion

Blackwater

Video

World Shootout / Leandro Blanco, Spain with the clip: For a Good Times

Championship

The Austrian team took the honours: Marco Steiner, Anita Kainrath & Martin Aigner

Humoristic

Environmental & Conservation

Wrecks of the World

Sharks of the World

To see all those placed in the World Shootout Pictures of your Life competition visit their website by clicking here.

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