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International Loupe Award winners includes dramatic photo of Leopard Seal gobbling up a penguin

Amongst the recent winners of the International Loupe Awards, we were struck by this photo showing a Leopard Seal about to gobble up a penguin in Antarctica.

 
Image by Amos Nachoum

The stunning image by underwater photographer Amos Nachoum captured fifth place in the Science and Nature category of the awards. (Yes, we...

James Bond-worthy “Penguin-cam” helps BBC filmmakers create intimate documentary about penguins in Antarctica

 
 

When producers of a BBC documentary about penguins in Antarctica wanted to get up close and personal while filming these cute creatures they knew they they'd need spy technology worthy of James Bond. So, they created "Penguin Cam," a group of life-like penguins equipped with cameras, which could capture the daily world...

National Geographic photographer’s unbelievable encounter with vicious predator in Antarctica (VIDEO)

 
 

We've posted quite a few amazing underwater photography videos here before but this story might be the most unbelievable yet.

In the clip (embedded below), National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen talks about his encounter with one of Antartica's most vicious predators, the Leopard Seal.

On assignment in the...

Love those underwater dogs photos? This video shows how they were shot

 
Photo by Seth Casteel

What is it about these underwater dogs photos that the Internet just can't seem to get enough of? A few weeks ago we posted this super slow motion video of dogs catching balls underwater and got a great response from Imaging Resource readers.

Now here's a behind-the-scenes video from ABC News of...

Video documents last minutes of underwater camera before it got lost during plunge into gorge

 
 

This is pretty hilarious in a Blair Witch Project meets Jackass sort of a way. The below video was recovered from a memory card in an underwater camera found at the bottom of a deep gorge near Woodstock, New York in the Catskills.

Watch the video and you'll be able to figure out how the camera got there. Yes, you...

Amazing Underwater Video of Massive Sink Holes in Mexico Shot with Canon 5D Mark III

Underwater-5d-iiiUnderwater photographer Berkley White has posted a gorgeous video of the massive sinkholes in Mexico, known as cenotes, shot with the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

To shoot the video, White had to hack an old Aquatica 5D Mark II underwater housing to fit the new camera. (The new housings weren't available yet.)

Though the modified rig was functional, it only allowed him to...