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The Natural History Museum has now officially become the charming and cozy choice for the International Competition of Underwater Photography Deep-City of Venice, now in its seventh edition. The exhibition of thirty-three winning images in the Galleria Cetacean under the impressive whale skeleton has ever seen as the influx of hundreds of Italian and foreign visitors. Ninety participants from the United States, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, Indonesia, England, Norway and Italy have submitted three hundred ninetytwo underwater photographs taken  around the world.

The photographers competed in the categories SLR and Compact cameras, divided into Macro and Wide angle Tropical and Mediterranean. Added to this are the categories Crabs, dedicated to the Museum, Plastic Sea, born from a project of Eleonora De Sabata in collaboration with Medsharks, and Donna Fotosub. Claudio Bertasini, Gianni Neto and Giuseppe Pignataro had to struggle hard to select the top ten photos of each category because of the high technical level. Isabella Maffei wins again the prize Woman Fotosub, while the Spanish Elisabeth Espinalt yook the first place in the category Crabs, which was attended by  68 competitors. The ranking still speaks Spanish thanks to the laurels that have crowned Jose Manuel Miro Gumbau, Jordi Riba, Rafael Cosme and Sergi Garcia. To Pietro Cremone, winner of the Compact Macro Tropical goes the special prize Lagunamare. Very satisfied the organizers of the event, Davide Barzazzi, Agnese Zane and Alessandro Tagliapietra, leaders of the association Abyss-UnderWaterPhotoVenice, who have been able to count this year of the collaboration of the Argo Group, Underwater Club San Marco and Scubashooters.net.

To confirm the excellent work done so far is the fact that many of the winning photographs in Venice have subsequently received countless awards and honors in some of the most famous competitions in the world. It should be emphasized that the event during these seven editions has collected about 2400 images submitted by more than 250 competitors and racked up more than 25,000 visitors to the exhibitions of photos of the winners.
Satisfied and happy to accommodate this event the  director of the Museum of Natural History Luca Mizzan, as  all the shots, thanks to  a release signed by the photographers participating in the event, they will integrate the archive of the Museum and can be used for teaching and research.The venue also hosted the sculpture "Wreck and Sharks" made by the  glassmaster Stefano Dalla Valentina and the glass lampwork miniatures made by the artist Mauro Vianello. high number of  national and local sponsors confirms that Abyss-City of Venice is for sure one of the most important UW Photo contest in Italy thanks to the patronage of the Veneto Region, the Province and the City of Venice and Scubaportal, the most important portal of diving in Italy.

For contacts and information www.underwaterphoto-venice.it | Abyss Venice 2014 Winners

1st place

2nd place

3rd place