From the Portfolio of Arthur Telle Thlemann, the 2007 SanDisk Red Sea overall winner |
Both amateur and professional underwater photographers are invited to enter online heats at Divernet.com, with the chance of winning a free trip to Eilat and entry to the annual competition, known for the high value of its prizes.
Similar national competitions are taking place all around the world, with their winners also feeding into the Eilat competition.
You can submit up to three digital or scanned underwater photos to Divernet per month, starting from 1 May and running through to the end of August.
Entries will be considered by a panel of judges, and the winner of each monthly competition announced on Divernet. (See the Monthly winners here.)
There will be individual prizes, and the Photographer of the Year will be selected from the four monthly winners in September.
The winning photographer will be flown to Israel to participate in the SanDisk Shoot-out and in a special Media category.
This year sees several new categories introduced in the Red Sea competition, including Humour, Ecology & Nature, Wrecks, Video Clips and Beginners.
Competition Rules
Each month, an online photography competition will be held, and photographers from the UK and Ireland are invited to submit up to 3 digital photos per month (scanned photos are accepted).
The first monthly competition will be in May and the last in August 2008.
The winner of each monthly competition will be announced on Divernet.com.
The DIVER Photographer of the Year will be selected from the winners of the monthly competitions.
Online monthly competition
Submitting Photos
Professional and amateur photographers can submit their photos for each of the monthly competitions to arrive electronically during the month of the competition. All photos must be submitted using the online entry form on Divernet.com. Each photo submitted should not exceed a file size of 500kb. Participants can submit up to 3 photos each month. Participants may modify the photos uploaded during the first phase of photo submission.
You MUST RENAME YOUR PHOTOS to include your name and a number indicating your entry order. For example, if you enter 3 photos each month, the first month they could be jsmith1.jpg, jsmith2.jpg, jsmith3.jpg. The next month they would be jsmith4.jpg, jsmith5.jpg, jsmith6.jpg. This allows us to avoid misidentifying or misallocating your photos. Do not include capital letters, spaces, or any other characters in your file names.
The monthly competition is now closed
Judging 
Judging for the monthly competitions will take place within the two weeks following the end of the competition month and the result will be announced on Divernet.com. The winner of each monthly competition will receive a prize given by Cameras Underwater.
See the monthly winners here.
DIVER Photographer of the Year
An online competition between all previous winners (of the monthly competitions May-August) will be held in September. The judges will choose one of the monthly winners as the DIVER Photographer of the Year, who will be invited to join the SanDisk Red Sea International Underwater Photography Competition 2008.
The prize includes: flights, half-board accommodation and diving during the Eilat - Red Sea competition.
SanDisk- Red Sea 2008 Competition
The Main competition will be held for the 4th year in a row, on November 10-15, 2008. This year there are several new categories, such as: Humor, Ecology & Nature care, Wrecks, Video Clips and a special category for beginners.
For full details of the 'Images of the World' competition and the great prizes on offer go here.
The DIVER Photographer of the Year can participate in all the Eilat Shoot-out categories with all the other photographers, but at the same time he will also represent DIVER magazine and the UK & Ireland in the special Media category with a prestige prize.
  Crusader Travel will be providing the overall winner of the DIVER Photographer of the Year competition with flights from the UK, resort transfers, seven nights' accommodation in a four-star hotel in Eilat and unlimited diving with the Aquasport dive centre in Eilat for the duration of the SanDisk competition.
For full details of the Eilat Shoot-Out go here.
Participants must confirm that the submitted photos are their own work and that they own the copyright.
Copying and use of their photos is permitted for any media coverage of DIVER Magazine and SanDisk Red Sea competition in relevant media and press, the competition album and other relevant activities to promote the competition.
Participants please note: by submitting your photos, you hereby accept all rules and instructions, as contained here.
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