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1st Place overall and 1st Place Wide Angle — Bo Pardau
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We were happy to be a sponsor of the 1st Kona Underwater Photo Shootout along with
Kona Honu Divers and other leading manufacturers! Some great photos and good fun! Congratulations to the winners!
The results of the 2016 Kona Underwater Shootout are in! A big THANK YOU to our sponsors for this year's event;
SEA&SEA Underwater Imaging,
Waterproof USA,
Optical Ocean Sales,
Light and Motion Dive,
TUSA,
Cressi,
MARES - just add water.
Twelve contestants gathered from Oahu, California and Kona at the
headquarters of Kona Honu Divers on Friday May 20th to celebrate the
start of the competition. The contestants had 2 days to shoot wherever
and wh
atever they wanted, as long as the images were uploaded by midnight on Sunday the 22nd
By the end judges, Doug Perrine and
Jeff Milisen,
had the difficult choice of trying to determine which images deserved
top honors. With such varied subjects as models, baitballs, moray eels,
blackwater critters and even minute brittlestars, the choices weren't
easy to make. Nonetheless, the winning images emerged in each category
and with an overall combined score the winning photographers picked
their prize out of a pile of gifts ranging from wetsuits, dive
computers, gift certificates, light, strobes, regulators, masks, dive
bags and lots of other goodies.
