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8 Turtle-y Great Shots From the 2017 Through Your Lens Photo Contest

By Scuba Diving Editors | Published On July 29, 2017
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8 Turtle-y Great Shots From the 2017 Through Your Lens Photo Contest

Judging the Through Your Lens photo contest is one of our favorite parts of the year at Scuba Diving — but it’s also one of the most challenging. For the 2017 contest, we sifted through more than 2,500 awesome entries to find the best of the best in underwater photography. We wanted to highlight some of our favorite images that didn’t make the winner’s circle, but that blew us away nonetheless. We think turtles are the best reptiles around, and based on the number of stunning turtle photos entered into our contest, it seems like underwater photographers agree! Here are our eight of our favorite turtles from the 2017 Through Your Lens photo contest.

See the 2017 winners here. The 2018 Through Your Lens photo contest is currently accepting entries. Learn more about the image categories and prizes here.

cute green sea turtle

Green sea turtle

Kyler Badten

A green sea turtle was fascinated by his own reflection on the photographer’s dome while shooting on Oahu's North Shore.

green sea turtle barrel sponge gili islands indonesia

Green sea turtle barrel sponge gili islands indonesia

Cedric Peneau

This photo of a green turtle on a barrel sponge was captured in Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia.

green sea turtle sunbeam

Green sea turtle sunbeam

Greg Lecoeur

A green turtle looks like it’s flying, illuminated by a sunbeam.

logerhead turtle coral bay australia albert

Logerhead turtle coral bay australia albert

David Palfrey

Albert the injured loggerhead turtle is a local celebrity of Coral Bay in Western Australia. He is seemingly always hungry, even for the dome ports of the paparazzi. It's a tough life being famous.

green sea turtle eating jellyfish

Green sea turtle eating jellyfish

Scott Portelli

Green turtles will feast for hours on an unsuspecting giant jellyfish, starting on the soft tentacles and working their way up to the soft outer bell of the jellyfish.

palau micronesia turtle chomp

Palau micronesia turtle chomp

Chase Weir

Cruising along the dive site New Dropoff in Palau, Micronesia, this turtle wanted to see how the photographer’s dome tasted.

turtle swimming on reef

Turtle swimming on reef

Victoria Gimenez

This turtle was swimming against the current and let divers appreciate the mosaic of greens and browns of his shell.

gili islands indonesia turtle model

Gili islands indonesia turtle model

Alfred Minnaar

This picture was taken just of the Gili Islands in Indonesia. The green turtle stayed as still as a model waiting for his portrait to be taken.