click for slideshowI first started SCUBA diving in 2001 and took my first underwater pictures in September that year. These were among my first photos taken on a single dive in Pulau Tioman, Malaysia. The dive site is call Bahara.
I’ve never done any photography before that but I wanted so much to take photos of my diving adventure, so I bought a Sony DSC-P1 because there’s an OEM underwater housing available for it, thus making it so much cheaper than buying third party housing…… but still it was one of one of my most expensive single purchase ever.
Because of the expense I said matter-of-factly to my boss that I needed to win some photography contest to make my investment worthwhile. Off course, him being the motivational expert that he is…… looked me straight in the eye and…… laughed at me……
To make a long story short, entered two online contests and this picture made finalist in Nikon.net December that year1:-
and this picture was finalist on photo.net2:-
Talk about beginners luck 
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- I won a large print (nearly A4 sized) photo. Although the contest was for US residents only, they nevertheless shipped the prize to Malaysia. Either somebody didn’t read the contest rules or turned a blind eye to it. [back]
- For finalist on photo.net……(drumroll)……they printed my picture in a some sort of book……that’s about it
……bah…… [back]
