Winners of #MyBlueEurope Photo Competition Announced

The winners of the #MyBlueEurope photo competition, launched for both amateur and professional photographers, were recently announced.

The first prize of the #MyBlueEurope photo competition — a unique diving experience in Greece with the Grand Resort Lagonissi and Athens Divers Club — was awarded to Huub Waaldijk for his photo taken in Dahab, Egypt.

Part of the #MyBlue campaign, the #MyBlueEurope photo contest invited all to share their connection with the sea, rivers or lakes.

1st Prize – Trip to Lagonissi and Athens Divers Club

Huub Waaldijk‎ – Freediver Jenny Kim cruising over the expanding airbubble’s of the techdivers in the deep – Blue Hole, Dahab, April 2017.

2nd Prize – Discover Your Depths online course by world record-holding freediver Sara Campbell

Stefano Proakis – Costa Navarino, August 2015 – Greece.

3rd Prize – Cressi diving equipment

Vassiliki Feidopoulou – Summer 2017, Thassos island, Greece. Crab camouflaged.

4th Prize – Cressi diving equipment

Áthila Bertoncini – Arraial do Cabo, February 2015. “Sometimes it looks like the sea, sometimes, another planet.”

The photographers of the following photos received free tickets to see the documentary Dolphin Man in cinemas across the world.

Jana McGeachy, Australia.

Gabi Pérez‎, Spain.

Diane Murphy Weaver, UK.

Zoi Pahounti.

Mady Lykeridou.

Diogo Cardoso, Portugal.

Galina Str, Macedonia.

Angelos Psomopoulos, Greece.

Tati Martina Ratata.

Nicolas Largueze, France.

#MyBlue, a Greek campaign running on social media since summer 2017, was launched to raise awareness about our connection with the ocean and the need to protect it. A collaboration between WWF Greece, the European documentary network Moving Docs, Anemon and Greek Travel Pages (GTP), #MyBlue is held under the auspices of the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO).