National Geographic Sea Animal Photography

National Geographic photographers won four awards.

National geographic sea animal photography. Dancers prepare to perform Yotsudake an elegant indigenous dance in Ginowan Okinawa Japan. A June 1997 story documented efforts on. Deep sea anglerfish Diceratias pileatus uses bioluminescent lure to attract prey.

Idaho in the east. Adult males weigh three to four times more and are up to 12 times longer than their female counterparts King 1964. Seals and Sea Lions.

Vacationers barrel through water slides at a water park in Ein Gev Israel. The California Sea Lion is a sexually dimorphic species. The eels which emerge vertically out of burrows in the sand resembling a field of plants are extremely difficult to capture.

The first-place winners in each of the categories will receive US2500 and the Grand prize winner in addition to taking the. Washington is in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States which excludes Alaska and HawaiiIts bordered by British Columbia Canada in the north. It occurs over much of the mainland except southern Victoria and the central and western desert regions and many offshore islands.

With its huge head and enormous mouth these fearsome fish swim in the dark depths of. This was one of the more light-hearted pictures in a July 1985 story about ongoing conflict and. Oregon in the south the Columbia River forms most of the border with this state.

David Doubilet won the under water category for his photo of an elusive deep-sea colony of garden eels. Animals as theyre affected by us. The National Geographic Photo Contest one of the greatest annual photography competitions in the world has already begun accepting photos for all three of its major categories Nature Places and People.