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Amazing pictures captured underwater
Image source, Davide Lopresti
A colourful picture of a spiny seahorse has won this year's UK Underwater Photography Competition.
It was taken by Davide Lopresti in Italy and beat entries from more than 54 countries.
Dan Bolt, from Devon, won British Underwater Photographer of the Year with Catshark Supernova. This award is open to all British residents and nationals.
Image source, Dan Bolt
Pier Mane, from South Africa, won Up and Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year with Three Pillars, taken in the Bahamas.
Image source, Pier Mane
Marty Engels Dunmore, from Suffolk, won Most Promising British Underwater Photographer with Fired Up, taken on the Kittiwake wreck in Grand Cayman.
Image source, Marty Engels Dunmore
Mike Korostelev won the International Wide Angle category with a shot from Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Russia. "I constructed a cage to keep me safe as I captured the fishing behaviour of the bear," he said.
Image source, Mike Korostelev
Richard Carey won the International Behaviour category with a shot of a turtle eating a jellyfish taken on an early morning dive in the Similan Islands.
Image source, Richard Carey
Paul Colley, who won the British Compacts category, said: "Whilst trying to photograph trout, during a year-long river project, with a homemade pole-cam, a raft of Mallard ducks muscled in to steal food intended to entice trout to the camera."
Image source, Paul Colley