Congratulations are in order

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:52 am

Congratulations to Kathryn Arant and Scott Lundy for their wins in the Dive Expo photo competition! Kathryn got second place in the warm water wide angle division, for a beautiful cave shot, and Scott won the video competition with his clip of the wreck of the Louie. They didn't tell us WHAT they won, but the list of prizes was pretty inspiring.

There may be other NWDC folks in the winners list, but those were the two names I recognized.

Mattleycrue76 · Post by **Mattleycrue76** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:39 am

Congrats Guys! I wish I could've been there.

Penopolypants · Post by **Penopolypants** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:34 pm

Congratulations to both of you!

airsix · Post by **airsix** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:40 pm

Congratulations, both of you!

-Ben (big fan. happy, but not surprised in the least)

fmerkel · Post by **fmerkel** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:49 pm

Yay Scott! Glad we got a chance to see the video at the photo workshop.

Congratulations Kathryn. Feels great to have your work validated like that.

Fritz

mz53480 · Post by **mz53480** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:59 pm

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:01 am

Awesome!

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

vlad · Post by **vlad** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:19 am

Woohoo! Congrats! Are those pictures/videos available on-line?

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:56 am

Awesome! Big Congrats Kathryn and Scott.

While watching the slideshow at our NWDC booth all I could think of was how amazing it is that we have so many talented folks among our ranks. It's really neat to see people's development as u/w photogs over time. Scott has really come a long way and his work is very inspiring. I can't wait to see the shots that come out of the new rig. Also, Chris Borgen makes it look way too easy - his first shots were way better than they should have been. I'm still scratching my head on that!

lundysd · Post by **lundysd** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:10 am

Thanks for the kind words everyone

The video can be seen at: http://www.raptureofthedeep.net/videos -- it's the second video on the page entitled "Diving the Louie"

Thanks to my dive buddies Bdub and Madison for looking so good in the clips, and special thanks to Richard for finding and dropping us on her. When we first dropped on the target, we assumed it would be a drydock -- as we got to the bottom, the 6 cylinder diesel staring back at us suggested otherwise

Scubie Doo · Post by **Scubie Doo** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:29 am

Yes, congrats to everyone who placed in this year's competition! I am pretty sure I saw Jan's name under several photos. The slide show went very fast so it was difficult to register name/category/photo.

BTW - Great video! Well deserving.

limeyx · Post by **limeyx** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:33 pm

Congrats to both!
Nick

Scubie Doo · Post by **Scubie Doo** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:51 am

Here is a link to the photos that were submitted. I cannot tell who finished 1st / 2nd / 3rd. But it is fun to click through the shots :-)

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ition.html

CaptnJack · Post by **CaptnJack** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:46 am

lundysd wrote:Thanks for the kind words everyone

The video can be seen at: http://www.raptureofthedeep.net/videos -- it's the second video on the page entitled "Diving the Louie"

Thanks to my dive buddies Bdub and Madison for looking so good in the clips, and special thanks to Richard for finding and dropping us on her. When we first dropped on the target, we assumed it would be a drydock -- as we got to the bottom, the 6 cylinder diesel staring back at us suggested otherwise

You're welcome, good job on that video you deserved a better prize! I have many more sites/wrecks in the pipeline right now so stay tuned.

mpenders · Post by **mpenders** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:16 pm

Also, congratulations to Jesse Miller (aka: Scoobie Doo) on his 1st place in the Cold Water Close Up and 2nd place in Artistic/Creative! However, I'm taking full credit for finding the critters for him...well, at least for navigating him back to the beach...well, okay...at least I didn't silt up the place...

Scubie Doo · Post by **Scubie Doo** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:48 am

Thanks Mike! There were some great photos in the competition. What an honor to be selected amongst such established photographers! Here are a few of my favorites. All the photos were good but these are amazing (IMO). PNW UW photographers that have tried to shoot lumpies, sea spiders, and warbonnets know how challenging and incredible some of those shots are! Hopefully, you can dust off your archived photos are submit them next year

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ml#joomimg

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ml#joomimg

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ml#joomimg

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ml#joomimg

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... ml#joomimg

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... er-75.html

http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/gallery/ ... nt-51.html

ktb · Post by **ktb** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:47 pm

So when are they going to list the winners?!?

Scubie Doo · Post by **Scubie Doo** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:10 pm

Good question. I have been asking since they notified me a couple weeks ago. I think they will show them in the next magazine. They showed them at the expo but the slideshow was so fast I couldn't remember them.

enchantmentdivi · Post by **enchantmentdivi** » Thu May 05, 2011 1:57 pm

Here's a link to the winners: http://youtu.be/Nl1BVFzPjVE

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