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  • British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Winners Announced

    British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Winners Announced


    Winner, Black & White: “Guillemot Kingdom” by Mark Kirkland

     

    The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 have been announced, and Simon Withyman took the overall win with a delightful capture of a fox patrolling the city center of the southern English city of Bristol. The shot, which was one of more than 13,000 other entries, also won the Urban Wildlife category.

    But, of course, there were winning images in other categories that underwater shooters will find particularly interesting. Two underwater images stood out in the Black & White category, for instance: category winner by DPG Photographer of the Week Mark Kirkland and a Highly Commended shot by regular DPG contributor Henley Spiers. In the Coast & Marine category, it was another DPG Photographer of the Week, Nick More, who took the category win. It was great to see underwater shots being recognized in other categories, too, including Habitat and Urban Wildlife.

    To see all the winning images, head over to the British Wildlife Photography Awards website.

     

    Highly Commended, Black & White, “Underwater Flight” by Henley Spiers

     

    Winner, Coast & Marine, “Blue Shark” by Nicholas More

     

    Highly Commended, Coast & Marine, “Crab Ride” by Kirsty Andrews

     

    Runner-up, Habitat, “Hunter, Hunted” by Sandra Stalker

     

    Highly Commended, Habitat, “Catshark” by Henley Spiers

     

    Highly Commended, Urban Wildlife, “Urban Rainbow” by Paul Colley

     





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  • ADEX 2025 Voice of the Ocean Photo+Video+Art Competition Winners Announced

    ADEX 2025 Voice of the Ocean Photo+Video+Art Competition Winners Announced


    “Tentacles of Doom”: Best of Show, Cephalopods, PJ Aristorenas (Philippines) (Canon EOS 7D Mark II, Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro, Nauticam housing, 2x Inon Z-330 strobes, f/16, 1/200s, ISO 250)

     

    Underwater360 Group, the organizers of the Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) have announced the winners of the show’s signature photo/video/art competition, ADEX Voice of the Ocean. The big winner was Filipino shooter PJ Aristorenas, whose stunning image “Tentacles of Doom” was crowned “Best of Show” during the live judging session held on the final day of the three-day show. PJ’s prizes included a Seacam camera housing worth $10,000, a 10-day dive package with Lembeh Resort and Murex Bangka, Sulawesi, Indonesia (worth $3,600), a Backscatter Hybrid Flash package (worth $1,260), a Shearwater Peregrine TX dive computer (worth $750), and an XDEEP NX ZEN 28 Ultralight Deluxe BCD (worth $825).

    This year’s ADEX Voice of the Ocean live judging event was emceed by DPG Manager Editor Ian Bongso-Seldrup and featured another illustrious panel of judges, who viewed 41 short-listed entries in five categories. This year’s panel comprised Tobias Friedrich, Franco Banfi, Berkley White, Erin Quigley, Kate Jonker, Nicolas Remy, Kay Burn Lim, and William Tan, with the ADEX Ocean Festival 2025 guests-of-honor David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes serving as guest judges. Congratulations to the winners: PJ Aristorenas (Best of Show), Janssen Tan (Cephalopods), Yazid Shaari (Animal Behavior), Emmanuel Vaillant (Waterscapes), Laura Parker (Artwork), and Alfred Schaschl (Short Film).

    For more information, head over to the Voice of the Ocean page on the ADEX website or check out the contest page on UnderwaterCompetition.com.

     

    “Peekaboo!”: Winner, Cephalopods, Janssen Tan (Singapore) (OM System OM-5, Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro, AOI housing, 2x AOI UCS-Q1 strobes, f/8, 1/160s, ISO 200)   

     

    “Entwined in Blue”: Winner, Animal Behavior, Yazid Shaari (Libya) (Nikon Z9, Nikon Z 24–50mm f/4–6.3, Nauticam housing, Nauticam WWL-C, 2x Retra Flash Pro Max strobes, f/14, 1/100s, ISO 125)

     

    “The Last Rays Before the Rain”: Winner, Waterscapes, Emmanuel Vaillant (France) (Nikon D750, Tamron 24–70mm f/2.8, polarising filter, neutral density filter, graduated filter, f/11, 30s, ISO 400)   

     

    “Soft Magic Descending”: Winner, Artwork, Laura Parker (UK) (Acrylic and pencil on wood panel, 46x46cm)

     

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    “Magic of the Macroverse”: Winner, Short Film, Alfred Schaschl (Austria) (Panasonic Lumix GH5S, Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, Isotta housing, 2x Backscatter Macro Wide 4300, 2x Backscatter Optical Snoots, Nauticam SMC-1, Nauticam SMC-2)

     





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  • 2024 Path Talent Hunt Winners

    2024 Path Talent Hunt Winners


    Path would be nothing without our people. To recognize our team’s unrelenting dedication to honing their craft and providing quality service to customers like you, we decided to host our first Talent Hunt at the end of 2023. After much success, we did it again in 2024!

    The contest

    The Talent Hunt was created with a few goals in mind: 

    • to identify exemplary photo editing techniques an
    • to recognize the editors behind the edits—we do everything by hand here, no sloppy AI shortcuts
    • to foster innovation and future leaders in the industry

    We let everyone get in on the fun—our in-house folks, temp workers, and even our subcontracting team—to see who can make the best, the fastest, and the most accurate photo edits. And not only that, but how the rest of our organization can learn from them. It’s just another way we’ve found to continuously innovate and push ourselves to always do better.

    We had three categories for winners:

    1. Speedstar Editor: the person who can edit images in the least amount of time while maintaining quality standards
    2. Quality Wizard: the editor who can edit images with extraordinary quality by using different techniques outside of their traditional quality within the defined timeframe
    3. Technique Mastermind: for the most creative editing techniques that still deliver quality and speed

    We also had a judging panel, made of:

    Creative review

    • Md. Ataur Rahman, Senior Manager, Production
    • MD. Shahadat Hossain, Senior Manager, Customer Support
    • Md Shaharia Kabir, Assistant Manager, Audit
    • Rayhanul Islam, Senior Executive, R&D
    • Abdullah Al Jasim, Executive, R&D

    Overall organization and coordination

    • Rifat Rahmatullah, Manager, Human Resources
    • Shams Al Mujahid, Senior Executive, HR and Admin

    Final decision

    • Md. Atiqur Rahman Molla, CEO
    • Rokaiya Yesmin, COO

    The winners

    Seven participants competed in the Talent Hunt, with two emerging as the top contestants. These editors displayed exceptional proficiency in all types of edits. Their techniques not only streamlined editing processes but also elevated the overall quality.

    Get to know the winners—some of the very people who edit your photos:

    Bishojit Sarker, 1st place

    • Category: Quality Wizard
    • Technique: image masking and photo retouching
    • Prize: mobile phone

    Mohammad Ripon, 2nd place

    What’s next?

    Sure, the Talent Hunt was a lot of fun! But there’s also a business goal behind it. Our top editors have innovated to bring new editing techniques and workflows to their work.

    By having this Talent Hunt, we can bring our larger team of editors together, identify top talent, and learn from them. The Talent Hunt winners can share their expertise, learnings, and techniques with the rest of the Path editing team to help continue to propel the quality of our services higher and higher.

    Thanks for being a part of our family

    We wouldn’t be able to edit images, innovate, and give back to our people without our customers. To us, Path is more than just a photo editing studio. It’s a family. And we’re happy to have you a part of that big, extended Path family. 

    Ready to send your photo edits our way? Get started now—and get your edits back in as little as 6 hours.



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