Judges
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He began taking pictures underwater, then branched out into general freelance photography, doing posters, racing, fashion, wildlife, and rock and roll concerts. But in the end, it always came back to diving, and he finally set out for Los Angeles in search of the dive industry.
Fortunately he found it, and became a part of PADI's management team and eventually one of the developers of Project AWARE. He enjoyed a several year stint as editorial director at Skin Diver magazine along the way, and returned to PADI a few years ago where he is a Senior Vice President for PADI Worldwide. Entwined with it all, however, is diving and shooting as much as he can.
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David has authored a guidebook to diving southeast Asia, and has published hundreds of articles on everything from destinations, equipment, and profiles on the world’s top dive celebrities and underwater photographers
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A regular contributor for Scuba Diver Australasia, Doug also serves as Field Editor for the magazine where his feature column, The Photo Shop, teaches people how to enhance their underwater images using Adobe Photoshop. He is also recognised internationally as producer of the Underwater Photo Workshop DVD, a collection of movie-based tutorials that visually teach underwater shooters how to edit and improve their digital photography.
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Along with his underwater photography and video work, Mike conducts photo classes throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific (divephotofest.com, OceanStockImages.com), and currently resides in Bali where he hones his photography and video skills on an almost daily basis.
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Richard Ng Wai Chiew - Since learning to dive in 1992 on Redang Island, Malaysia, Richard has extensively dived the east and west coasts of the Malaysian peninsula. His dive travels has taken him to far off destinations like Sipadan, Mabul, Kapalai, the Maldives, Sangalaki, Manado, Lembeh, Bunaken, Bali, the Similan Islands, and the Red Sea.
With his vast diving experience, Richard decided to turn his passion into a profession, and in 2001 became a PADI instructor. A year later he ventured into underwater photography with a Sony compact camera, and today shoots with a Canon dSLR in a Sea & Sea system. His work has been published in various magazines and newspapers around the region, and his images are also used commercially.