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3rd place Collective Portfolio Award

Alex Kydd Western Australia

A whale shark swimming in the blue on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

All of Alex's Collective Portfolio Award entry

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A rare encounter with a fever of cownose rays on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

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A split shot image of the dense coral gardens of Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef.

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A reef manta ray filter feeding with a school of juvenile golden trevally in Batemans Bay, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

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Grey reef sharks hunt and chase a huge school of bait fish.

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A freediver falls through an ocean full of moon jellyfish in Raja Ampat, West Papua.

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A whale shark surrounded by a school of juvenile golden trevally on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

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A melanistic reef manta swimming over the sand flats of Coral Bay, Western Australia.

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An uncommon sighting of a whale shark feeding on a large school of baitfish on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

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The Papuan jellyfish, nicknamed the Golden Medusa, photographed at night in a jellyfish lake in Raja Ampat, West Papua.

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Ocean Portfolio Award, third place, Alex Kidd

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2021 EPoY finalist, Alex Kydd

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