Welcome to Morten Bjørn Larsen's UW-gallery

June 2013 - I've just returned from the underwater photo competition MIMA in Spain. I didn't finnish in the top, but I had heaps of fun and learned a lot!!!
It was a splash-in competition with six categories spread over just four dives.

-fauna
-envir...onment
-environment with model
-open topic
-mediterranean wrasse
-macro

Follow this link for the winning photos: http://www.facebook.com/mimamedes?fref=ts

See the competition photos and a few more in the MIMA folder. 

March 2013 - I have a photo in a new show airing April 22nd on the National Geographic Channel. :-)

January 2013 - I'm pleased to have won the macro category in the underwater photo contest at Copenhagen Dive Show :-) http://dyk.dk/nyheder/vinderne-fundet

January 2013 - I'm happy to have my Nudibranch Safari article in the British dive magazine DIVER!  
You can see the photos in the Nudibranch Safari folder.

December 2012 - Photo in Men's Journal in an article about the 4 X World Champion Stig Åvall Severinsen. http://www.mensjournal.com/

November 2012 - Back from a great RSPE II (Red Sea Photo Expedition)
Read about it and see photos in the RSPE II folder.

November 2012 - Photos in X-RAY MAG. In the article about the 4x WC in freediving Stig Severinsen.
http://www.xray-mag.com/content/x-ray-mag-51

November 2012 - Got shortlisted in a temperate water wrecks competition, at an underwater wreck photography site on Facebook! :-)

October 2012 - Got shortlisted in a Black & White competition at an Underwater Wreck Photography site on Facebook. :-)

October 2012 - Really happy to have a photo amongst the 101 chosen photos to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the macro photographers group.
The 101 photos are chosen from more than 6000 photos uploaded the last 12 months
http://www.uwmacrophotographers.com/flipbook/1anniversary/1anniversary.html

August 2012 - Shortlisted at: www.underwaterphotography.com/photo-contest/default.aspx?MID=32080

July 2012 - I got in the 100 LIKES Hall of Fame at Macro Photographers - cool!

June 2012 - The third coastal encyclopedia (local Danish divesites) in a row in the Scandinavian Dive Magazine DYK.

 

June 2012 - Two articles in the Norwegian Dive Magazine Dykking. One from Lanzarote (which I made for DYK last year), and the Nudibranch Safari article I made for Dykking in March.

May 2012 - Got a photo in top 10 at Macro photographers last month - very nice!
http://www.uwmacrophotographers.com/eNews/eNews_Issue4_iPad.pdf

May 2012 - I'm happy to have been included (as the first Dane) in Giorgio Cavalaros website of underwater photographers from around the world!!! :-) http://uwphotographers.blogspot.it/2012/05/uwp-morten-bjorn-larsen.html

May  2012 - In the scandinavian dive magazine DYKs series of local Danish divesites (Coastal encyclopedia), they have used one I've made from Klintebjerget in the May edition.

April 2012 - The scandinavian dive magazine DYK has again launched their series of local Danish dive sites. And started out with one I made about diving in the lake Furesoen.

March 2012 - On assignment for the Norwegian Dive Magazine DYKKING in Gulen - Norway

October 2011 - Article in the Norwegian dive magazine DYKKING about the uw-photo course I did for a group of beginners in the Red Sea back in November 2009. See the UW-photo course folder.

October 2011 - Workshop for the freelancers of DYK magazine in Lysekil - Sweden.

May/June 2011 - On assignment in Lanzarote for the Scandinavien Dive magazine DYK.

June 2011 - Article in The Scandinavian Dive magazine DYK about the diving in Malapascua, the Philippines.

May 2011 - Article in the Scandinavian dive magazine DYK about the uw-photo course I did for a group of beginners in the Red Sea back in November 2009.

April 2011 - I was with Danish Nikon ambassador Casper Tybjerg on a liveaboard in the Red Sea to teach a group of nature photographers about uw-photography.

March 2011 - I did a theory and a pool lection on flash techniques in Kingklub (dive club in Kingfish).

September 2010 - I was lucky to win the bronze medal in the Danish National Championship in uw-photography :-) 

August 2010 - Article about the diving at Alghero in Sardinia published in the Scandinavian dive magazine DYK.

July 2010 - Shortlisted at http://www.underwaterphotography.com/

July 2010 - Shortlisted at http://www.underwaterphotography.com/

May 2010 - I was on assignment for the Scandinavian dive magazine DYK checking out the diving near Alghero in Sardinia. 

April 2010 - This photo that I took at Stig Åvall Severinsen's Guinness World Record breath hold attempt in the shark tank at Kattegatcentret was selected amongst photos of the week at Assosiated Press. It was printed in South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Denmark and a string of other newspapers around the world. 

April 2010 - The four time World Champion, Stig Åvall Severinsen, asked me to be uw-photographer at his Guinness World Record breath hold attempt in the shark tank at Kattegatcentret.

February 2010 - My portfolio was in the Scandinavian dive magazine DYKs February issue.

December 2009 - Shortlisted at http://www.underwaterphotography.com/

November 2009 - I was invited by Rasmus Dysted from Kingfish Dive & Travel to assist him on a uw-photo course in the Red Sea for a group of beginners.

October 2009 - I'm pleased to say that the Danish Sportsdiving Federation has chosen one of my group photos from the Freediving WC-09 as cover shot for their Oct/Nov Issue.

October 2009 - The scandinavian dive magazine: DYK also chose one of my photos from the freediving WC - 09 as cover shot for their October Issue.

August 2009 - I was uw-photographer at the World Championships in freediving (pool diciplines) in Aarhus Denmark

July 2009 - My oceanic white tip shark photo made it to the final in BSoUPs (British Society of Underwater Photographers) annual underwater photo competition and was displayed at the London Aquarium for three months :-)

February 2009 - I did an assignment for the Danish TV station DR 1. They wanted some still photos to promote the program Ha' det godt.

September 2008 - I was uw-photographer at the team freediving World Championships in Egypt-