1999 Photo Contest Winners!

This year, nobody in the whole state of Utah sent us any underwater pictures. So, Bruce awarded the prizes to himself. These are the pictures he picked out as our 1999 winners.

Utah Underwater Category:

A blow-up boat and snorkel gear. Heaven! Utah 1st Place. "Blue Lake Beauty"

Photographer Bruce Argyle of Alpine UT. Kristen Argyle snorkels at Blue Lake, June 1999, Nikonos V with 2 YS-50 strobes and 20 mm lens. Kristen, Bruce's 11-year old daughter, asked for a snorkel party at Blue Lake for her birthday. This photo shows Kristen at a depth of 10 feet, just turning to head back for the surface. Kristen and her cousins paddled a small boat around the lake and snorkelled down to see the bluegill.

Dominic shows us his bare bass! Utah 2nd Place. "Lake Powell Bass"

Photographer Bruce Argyle of Alpine UT. Dominic Bria with smallmouth bass at Lake Powell, July 1999, Nikonos V with 2 YS-50 strobes and 20 mm lens. Scruffy fell off the houseboat and lost his glasses, so after grabbing the scuba gear to find the specs, we continued the dive in the evening twilight. This site in Iceberg Canyon (about 20 miles south of Bullfrog) had the clearest water and the most fish of any site we visited.

World-Wide (Utah Diver) Category:

Sex and the single garibaldi... World-wide 1st Place. "Garibaldi Nest"

Photographer Bruce Argyle of Alpine UT. Garibaldi with nest at San Clemente Island, July 1999, Nikonos V with 2 YS-50 strobes and 20 mm lens. The male garibaldi bites the growth off a rock, then cultures a bed of algae. It stays on-site to protect the algae from being eaten. Female garibaldis lay eggs on the algae bed, and the male protects them until they hatch.

REAL men bike in the snow! World-wide 2nd Place. "Catching Air"

Photographer Matt Flygare of Salt Lake City. Bruce Argyle rides "Banana Thunder" on the Deer Creek South Fork Trail, November 1999, Canon Rebel G with 28-80 zoom lens. Here Bruce catches a little air on the snowy trail. Does it bother you that this photo won a SCUBA photo contest? Well, then why the Hell didn't YOU enter?

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