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Perfect moment : winning a gold medal in UWP contest

Mona and Chris — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:33:43 +0000

well today I will tell you about a perfect moment which is happening now as I try to write

I take part in the UWP contest for a couple of years but only did so more seriously since last year. Last December, 3 of my images went into the finals, one in the freshwater, one in the wide angle with diver and one in the Macro nudibranch category.

These were great news. And finally today we got the results! And guess what?

I am winning the Gold medal in the Macro Nudibranch category with my image “Golden”

Gold Medal in Macro Nudibranch category

To my great surprise my freshwater shot placed as Runner Up as well

Runner Up in Freshwater category

When I’m in the water and taking photos I don’t think about competitions and medals. I enjoy that moment which enables me to get a close look into a world which is unknown for a lot of humans. I can’t believe that your photos are getting better if you have the ambition of competition in your mind. So I will go on taking pictures just because I love being in that wet world, below the surface, face to face to a wonderfully different world!

I’m happy to see so many familiar names in the winners’ list. Congratulations to all of you! I hope that you have your own personal “perfect moment” as well today!

You can find all the winners here : Underwater Photo medal winners

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Expo -Soirée Bodrum 2011

Mona and Chris — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:41:14 +0000

Invitation Bodrum 2011 (pdf)

Coupe du Monde de Photographie sous- marine
Date : 30 septembre à 19.00h
Lieu : AUTOPOLIS (Bertrange)

Venez découvrir les photos de l’équipe luxembourgeoise qui a participé à
la Coupe du Monde de Photo Sous-Marine. Denis Palbiani et moi-même avions pris part à ce concours qui s’effectue tous les deux ans.
Nous pourrions discuter autour d’un verre et vous allez découvrir le déroulement de cette compétition,en compagnie de tous les sponsors.

Filed under: diving, Exhibitions, PhotoCompetitons

7th place in unterwasser magazine

Mona and Chris — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:54:48 +0000

Je viens de voir que je suis placée 7ieme ce mois-ci dans le magazine unterwasser. Le thème était PORTRAIT.
I just noticed that I placed 7th in this month’s issue of Unterwasser magazine. The theme was PORTRAITS

voici la top 10
see the top 10 here

http://www.unterwasser.de/aktuell/Newsdetail/ab497bda-8cdb-414e-9801-78510be9e90c/

Happy me

Filed under: PhotoCompetitons, underwater

My selection…

Mona and Chris — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:27:35 +0000

Voila tout est fini! il est temps que je vous dévoile ma sélection de ce Championnat. Pas facile de se mettre dans le bain quand on n’a pas eu le temps de faire quelques plongees de reperage…mais bon. C’était une très belle expérience!
Well all is over now and it’s finally time to show you my selection for this championship. it wasn’t easy as we didn’t have much training before, but it was a great experience.

Click to view slideshow.
Filed under: PhotoCompetitons, underwater

La competition – the competition

Mona and Chris — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:59:15 +0000

La deuxième journée était plus belle et nous a également permis de sortir l’appareil photo sur le bateau pour documenter le déroulement de la journée.
Nous étions 11 photographes avec leurs assistants, ce qui fait beaucoup de bordel!
The second day was nice and warm so we were able to take a few shots on the boat in order to document the life on the boat. We were 11 photographers with their assistants which makes a lot of stuff!

Les cartes mémoires nous sont données sur le bateau par l’organisation. D’ailleurs on n’a pas le droit de toucher a l’appareil sans leur présence.
The memory cards are handed over by the organisation team on the boat. They also check all handling of your cameras.

Voici les photos de la procédure
Here some pictures of this procedure

et la premiere photo du responsable
and the first shot of the referee

Filed under: diving, PhotoCompetitons

Festival de L’Image Sous-Marine Marseille 2010

Mona and Chris — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:09:49 +0000

The Luxie delegation

We spent a great time in Marseille during the last week. The Festival de l’Image Sous-Marine is not only a photo contest as a lot of people think. It features lots of films (short and long) all around the underwater world. The screening of these films starts on Wednesday and goes through to Saturday. Sunday is the last day of the festival when all winning films and photos are showcased.

Concerning the films, I had 3 favourites in the lot I’ve watched :

In the Dragon’s Lair is a incredible documentary on giant Nile crocodiles in the clear waters of the Okavango Delta.

The Great White sharks of Guadalupe is one of 5 documentaries of Adventure Ocean Quest. A series produced by the German ZDF. This film won Gold this year in Marseille. It’s just wonderful to see these 3 freedivers in the water with the Great Whites.

Under The Pole makes you freeze right on your chair! Diving under the ice of the North Pole carrying all the stuff over the shelf! Wow, what an adventure!

My Mr.Hungry and Chris’ lionfish placed both 23th in the colour category

Mr. Hungry

lion mirror

Here are our B/W images which placed 18th

Sunbeams

Dragon

The winners :

The B&W’s

Concerning the photo competition, Lots of people have contacted me to get the complete list of results. Here they are :

Filed under: diving, Exhibitions, PhotoCompetitons, Uncategorized

More photos for The “Festival de l’Image Sous-Marine”

Mona and Chris — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:26:29 +0000

As I’m almost decided which photo to send into the contest in Marseille in the category Prints (colour and b&w), I took some time tonight to put up a portfolio of 10 photos. These portfolios will be displayed during the festival in one of the theatres.

Here they are.

Enjoy!

Click to view slideshow.
Filed under: Exhibitions, my slideshows, PhotoCompetitons, underwater

I want your opinion :)

Mona and Chris — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:11:14 +0000

Chosing one single shot is giving me sleepless nights! I need your help and opinion on the following pictures. Tell me which one is your favourite. You can click on the image to get a larger view

Some friends reported problems while trying to vote via IE. Firefox and iPhones seem to work just fine

Thank you all for your participation

Filed under: My Point of View, Photo of the day, PhotoCompetitons, underwater

Festival de l’image sous-marine Antibes

Mona and Chris — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:04:31 +0000

Last week took place the 35th Festival de l’Image sous-marine in Antibes, southern France. This was a great opportunity to get away from the freezing temperatures around here in Luxembourg and to drive south 1000km.

Festival mondial de l'image sous-marine

I had also organised to meet an online buddy from Digidiver.net there, Thomas Vignaud aka Autopsea. It’s always interesting and funny to meet people you only know from the net for real. Concerning Thomas it was a great day to meet as he won the first prize in the photo competition as well as the prize of young photographer with his great turtle shot.

the winning shot!

I believe he needs some time to completely realise what happened to him. And this is only the beginning, I’m sure!

Thomas with his "Oscar"

The day after you could even find his turtle on the front page of the newspapers.

interesting reading

You can check out more of Thomas’ beautiful work on his flickr account and find him as well as moderator on www.digidiver.net

Posted in My Point of View, PhotoCompetitons

The Daily Dozen

Mona and Chris — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:01:23 +0000

I was very surprised (first of all) and happy (of course) to find out that one of my pictures was chosen in the Daily Dozen from the Nation Geographic Magazine on February 21.