DPG has at all times been bristling with inspiring images, from evaluations of the newest gear, from tales of your epic adventures world wide, and from the outcomes of superior underwater pictures competitions (like DPG/Wetpixel Masters—deadline New Yr’s Eve!). However on a weekly foundation, there’s one supply of photos that’s persistently inspirational: Photographer of the Week.
With the top of the yr in sight, we’ve as soon as once more put collectively a “better of” to have fun one other 12 months of wonderful portfolios. The next 20 photos sum up not simply the spectacular expertise of 20 particular photographers, but in addition the delicate magnificence and mind-blowing variety of life in our oceans.
We’d wish to take the chance to thank each photographer who shared their work within the column in 2022. Photographer of the Week simply turned 9 years previous, however we’re assured that we’ll be uncovering superb new expertise—in addition to including the few well-known names which have but to look—within the column subsequent yr.
Viktor Lyagushkin: Petrovich the beluga is over 16 ft lengthy and greater than 20 years previous. His curled entrance fins affirm the whale’s appreciable age—the older the white whale, the extra twisted its fins
Edwar Herreno: Whitetip reef shark mating, Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Giacomo Rossi: Sea lion catching a fish, Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico
Sayaka Ichinoseki: Creating anglerfish eggs, Shakotan-gun, Hokkaido, Japan
Francis Pérez: Feeding Bryde’s whale, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Keigo Kawamura: Japanese manefish portrait, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Álvaro “Mekan” Herrero: Hawksbill turtle biting the dome port, Similan Islands, Thailand
Robert Stansfield: Rainbow tripodfish, Cozumel, Mexico
Javier Murcia: A seahorse provides beginning to a whole lot of tiny infants
Léna Remy: Potbelly seahorse, Kurnell, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Raffaele Livornese: Education sweetlips, Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Karlo Macas: Whale shark surrounded by jacks, Sail Rock, Thailand
Marc Casanovas: Monkfish (Lophius piscacorius), Tossa de Mar, Spain
Patrick Neumann: Cardinalfish with eggs, Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Al Hornsby: Nice hammerhead, Bimini, Bahamas
Sage Ono: Tubesnout eggs on kelp, Monterey Bay, California, USA
Veronika Nagy: Hooded nudibranch, God’s Pocket, British Columbia, Canada
Billy Ball: Seaweed blenny, Blue Heron Bridge, Florida, USA
Hannah Le Leu and Mitchell Romanowski: Inexperienced sea turtle in a tropical storm, Heron Island, Australia
Tom Shlesinger: Goliath grouper, Palm Seaside, Florida, USA