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Mezinárodní potápěčský… / 2025

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Start adding photos:01.02.2025
End adding photos:15.03.2025
Publication of competition photos - after completed evaluation:29.03.2025
Publication of winning photos:05.04.2025

47th International diving festival PAF Tachov / 2025

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Author Michal Štros

About author Michal Štros - biologist, scientist and underwater photographer. Michal has won a number of awards in international underwater photography competitions, such as in the Ocean Art 2020/2021 and the International Film and Underwater Photography Festival PAF Tachov - Czech Republic - 2020/2021 and 2023 - 2025. Recently, he presented a new underwater photography technique using vintage lenses with the front element reversed (https://divemagazine.com/underwater-photography/unique-effects-of-modified-digital-lenses-underwater). His photographs are regularly exhibited and published in international magazines. Michal has also published a book "The World of Silence through the Lens of Underwater Art Photography" which can be purchased from the author (uw.art.michalstros@gmail.com) or on Amazon.

Website: www.michalstros.cz

Participation at festivals

Photo of the festival

  • A lonely clownfish

    5.1- black and white

  • A pumpkinseed

    5.2 - colour - freshwater

  • River pike on the…

    5.2 - colour - freshwater

  • Alien

    5.3 - colour - seawater

  • Frowning lionfish

    5.3 - colour - seawater

  • Hermit crab

    5.3 - colour - seawater

  • Dwarf lionfish

    5.4 - pool and creative

  • Ornate ghost…

    5.4 - pool and creative

  • Two Ornate ghost…

    5.4 - pool and creative