Nature’s Best Photography Magazine has announced the winners of the 2011 Ocean Views Photography Contest. Over 5,000 were received for the competition.The winning images will be displayed in the Nature’s Best Photography Ocean Views 2011 Awards gallery that will be published in our Spring/Summer print edition, due out in May. Additionally, the selected images may also appear in the Spring issue of Alert Divers magazine. Congratulations to all the winners and as always, to the many Wetpixel members featured in the results.

The next Ocean Views competition will open for entries for 6 June to 30 November, 2011.

OCEAN VIEWS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS.

First Place.

Franco Banfi (Beluga Whale.)

Second Place.

Toshio Minami (Spinner Dolphins.)

Third Place.

Kaido Haagen (Grey Seal.)

Fourth Place.

Mark van Coller (Cape Gannet & Sardines.)

Fifth Place.

Christian Loader (Leafy Seadragon.)

Sixth Place.

Quincy Dein (Inside the Wave.)

Seventh Place.

Todd Mintz (Sockeye Salmon.)

Highly Honored Photographers.
To be featured in Nature’s Best Photography magazine (listed in alphabetical order.)

Peter G. Allinson (Sperm Whale.)

Vincenzo Apuzzo (Harlequin Shrimp.)

Franco Banfi (Longnose Hawkfish.)

Donna Carr (Western Rockhopper Penguins.)

Pedro Carrillo-Montero (Green Turtle.)

Matt Curnock (Humpback Whale.)

Steve De Neef (Bigeye Jacks & Diver.)

Isabel Diez (Lichen & Rocks at Sunset.)

Steven Kovacs (Yellow Mouth Moray Eel.)

Clark Little (“Bulldozer” Wave.)

Michael Patrick O’Neill (Arrow Crab.)

Annika Persson (Manta Ray.)

Thomas Pfeifer (Common Tern.)

Nuno Sá (Devil Rays & Divers.)

Allison Vitsky (California Kelp Forest.)

Keri Wilk (Saltwater Crocodile and Cave with Diver.)