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Welcome to Light & Motion's online Tetra Photography Contest. Everyday more photographers are making the switch to digital for underwater photography and using the Tetra every click of the way. If you're a Tetra owner or just borrowed your buddy's for a dive, all Tetra photos are eligible.

The contest will be held every quarter. The first place winner receives free goodies from Light & Motion. First, second and third place winners get their pictures displayed at uwimaging.com and the opportunity to be part of the year end contest.

To submit your entry(s) read the official Tetra photography Contest rules then follow the form link. Be part of the underwater digital boom and submit your photos every quarter!

If you want to learn more about the Tetra and it's ability to capture great underwater photos visit our Tetra section. Do you already own a Tetra and want to increase your underwater digital skills? Follow this link to "The Tetra Experience", a compilation of tips for shooting digital before, during and after a dive.

First Place - David Evans

Technical data: I used a Tetra-housed Olympus C4040Z camera with a single Sea & Sea YS-90 DX Duo strobe, fixed above the lens using the standard flat port.

This photo of a wolf eel was taken at Sunrise Beach Park just outside of Gig Harbor Washington in the Puget Sound. Sunrise is a haven for wolf eels, and a haven for divers. The currents at this site are very strong, and the site can only be safely dived twice a day during mild exchanges. This particular photo really excited the marine biologists in the Seattle area, as the wolf eel is dining on lingcod eggs. According to the fish biologists at the Seattle Aquarium and at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, this is the first conclusive evidence of predation of lingcod eggs by a wolf eel - a behavior that had long been suspected but had never been witnessed or confirmed. This wolf eel was about 5 feet long - the detail of the photo speaks to the quality of the optics of the Tetra. The photo was taken using an Olympus 4040Z in a Tetra with the "standard" wide port, and a single Sea And Sea YS90-DX strobe.

Third place - JD Duff
While waiting near a cleaning station at the dive site Manuelita, the hammerheads appeared from both sides, coming in close enough to capture this pic of a single one with two barber fish. Diving with the Dolphin rebreather allowed us to get this close. This hammerhead is about six feet away.