Our Favorite Red, White and Blue Photos from the 2016 Photo Contest
What better way to celebrate the end of election season than by scrolling through red, white and blue critter-themed photos submitted to our 2016 Through Your Lens Photo Contest?
Be sure to check out all of the underwater photo contest winners, and browse some of our other photo-contest favorites below.
2016 Photo Contest Winners
Sea Turtle Photos - 2016 Photo Contest
Shark Photos - 2016 Photo Contest
2015 Photo Contest Winners
Photo submissions for next year will open in January 2017, so make sure to check scubadiving.com/photocontest for details and updates!
Photo captions provided by photographers

Tom Van HuntPipefish at Anilao, Philippines

Filip Staes"A cleaning shrimp is ready for his big task: cleaning a huge grouper!"
Location: Seraya, Bali."

J. Gregory Sherman
"Sometimes it pays off to take an extra long safety stop. All of the other divers had ascended to the boat when this female humpback whale came through. I was fortunate enough to have several minutes with her before she ventured back into the blue."

Fei Yang"My home should not be white. Save my home—Carbon reduction"

Gino Symus"A shot of a beautiful shrimp, taken in Ambon - Indonesia, with an aluminum pipe in front of the lens."

Pietro Cremone"A blue tang caught at night with a fisheye lens" Location: Dharavandhoo, Maldives

Katherine Lu"Playing peek-a-boo with this little conch in Singapore's murky waters."

Markus Davids"Crashed pilot in Curacao."

Natalie Bondarenko"Eye of giant octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) and shrimp (Urocaridella antonbruunii)"
Location: Anilao, Philippines"

Heather Sutton"Shrimp inversion - dreamy and star like."