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9 Amazing Over/Under Shots From the 2017 Through Your Lens Photo Contest

By Scuba Diving Editors | Updated On October 25, 2017
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9 Amazing Over/Under Shots From the 2017 Through Your Lens Photo Contest

Judging the Through Your Lens photo contest is one of our favorite parts of the year at Scuba Diving — but it’s also one of the most challenging. For the 2017 contest, we sifted through more than 2,500 awesome entries to find the best of the best in underwater photography. We wanted to highlight some of our favorite images that didn’t make the winner’s circle, but that blew us away nonetheless. Over/under photos capture the best of both worlds: terrestrial and aquatic. Here are our favorite split shots from the 2017 contest.

See the 2017 winners here. The 2018 Through Your Lens photo contest is currently accepting entries. Learn more about the image categories and prizes here.

maldives shark black tip hunting

A baby black tip shark hunts small fry in the very shallow edge of a Maldivian island shore.

Simone Caprodossi
jellyfish mount vesuvius southern italy

A jellyfish swims under Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy.

Marco Gargiulo
humpback whale Al-Halaniyat islands Sultante of Oman

A rare humpback whale sighting in the Al-Halaniyat islands in the Sultante of Oman.

Tobias Friedrich
green sea turtle sunset

This green sea turtle image was taken at sunset, just as the turtle popped its head out of the water to get air.

Renee Capozzola
schooling fish bali

The picture of schooling fish was taken in Tulamben, Bali.

Enrico Somogyi
lemon shark bahamas sunset

A lemon shark surfaces in the Bahamas as the sun gets ready to set.

Jim Machinchick
Mo’orea Island Tahiti French Polynesia ray

At a lagoon on Mo’orea Island, near Tahiti in French Polynesia, a ray swam directly over my dome.

Camallonga Emmanuelle
Eastern fidlar ray Jervis Bay in Australia

This Eastern fidlar ray came into the shallow sand flats in search of a meal in Jervis Bay in Australia.

Jordan Robins
crown jellyfish Bida Nai Island in Thailand

A crown jellyfish casually floats along past Bida Nai Island in Thailand.

Sera-Jace Lee