Congratulations to all the winners in our 2008 Photo Competition!! Look out for our 2009 Photo Competition!

Bunaken

FIRST PRIZE - LYNETT ROBIN, Fish and Crab
Lynett wins a 5-day holiday with us in Bunaken.
Judge's comment - "the timing of the fish's positioning, the angle and specifically the depth of field are all spot on"

SECOND PRIZE - ADI, frog - sunset
Adi wins the new Debelius book on Nudibranchs.
Judge's comment - "the brightness of the sun has been used to its full effect and the subject filled with just the right amount of light"

THIRD PRIZE - HERBERT, nudi-love
Herbert wins one of our newly designed Two Fish mask straps.
Judge's comment - "good use of light highlighting all the most important components of the overall image"

Lembeh

FIRST PRIZE - ANNE CLEAR, elysia ornata eating
Anne wins a 5-day holiday with us in Lembeh.
Judge's comment - "great composition! The subject fits nicely into the image and is very well lit, showing off all it glorious markings and colours"

SECOND PRIZE - HUGO VET, hermit-crab
Hugo wins the new Debelius book on Nudibranchs.
Judge's comment - "super composition with a great use of depth and light"

THIRD PRIZE - KRISTELLE GOEL, gobie (small red triplefin on coral)
Kristelle wins one of our newly designed Two Fish mask straps.
Judge's comment - "although this is a commonly seen image, this is an excellent example"

Thanks to all our customers for sending in their entries. The entries were of a very high standard, and the judging was tough - you can view all the entries from Bunaken and from Lembeh on Two FIsh Flickr.

Thanks also to our judge, Paul Lees, who has kindly offered to judge our 2009 Photo Competition as well.

More on Paul - British born writer and photographer, Paul Lees, has travelled extensively throughout Asia, gaining first-hand insight and absorbing local perspective along the way. With the qualification of Master Instructor under two scuba diving training agencies, Paul also has alot of first-hand experience in the diving world.

Numerous valuable experiences have been stored in the form of pictures and words, which have since appeared in many internationally acclaimed publications including New Holland's best selling coffee table presentations Top Dive Sites of the Indian Ocean, The Dive Atlas of the World and Diving with Giants, as well as Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Guide to Thailand. He is also currently spearheading the POCKET GUIDE series that includes the Pocket Guide DIVE Thailand.

Paul specialises in underwater photography, so when he is not engrossed with the range of POCKET GUIDE titles, he continues to pay attention to expanding his extensive image library on subjects both above and below the ocean surface.

He is also a regular contributor to regional and international scuba diving magazines, and has been involved in bringing the underwater world to the surface in the form of natural history documentaries and TV shows, including ABC Kane's The Living Edens and the BBC's Really Wild Show.