Awards, Events & Publications
July 2024 Annual Photo Contest judge, Scuba Diving Magazine.
May 2024 Memorial Maria Luisa -Honorable Mention, Bouganvillia jellyfish, Mundo sumergido
April 1-15, 2024 Anilao, Semi-Annual Underwater Photo workshop with Marine Pixels @ Saltitude and Ivan's Dive Tour.
Découvrir la vie sous-marine, book, Blackwater images
by Steven WEINBERG avec Mélodie CAUSSAT & Julie MELLINGER - see pages 92-93 on Blackwater sujets.
March 2024 CUPOTY: Water Shortlist March https://www.cupoty.com/water-shortlist
March 2024 Memorial Maria Luisa Mencion de Honor Submerged World, Bouganvillia jellyfish
August 2023 contributed images of Nausithoe maculata to a scientific paper titled “A morphological review of the jellyfish genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853
(Nausithoideae, Coronatae, Scyphozoa, Cnidaria).” by Clarissa Molinari, ALlen Collins and Andre C. Morandini. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.5336.1.1
August 2023 National Geographic, China, Fish that Fly.
July 2023 issue Scuba Diving Magazine Blue Heron Bridge images
June 2023 Art of Nature Finalist: Big Picture Competition
June 2023 Judge for Scuba Diving Magazine's Through the Lens Photo Competition
June 2023 Second Edition of the BHB Companion Book is now available-click here to purchase.
June 2023 Ocean Geographic, Honorable Mention in Black & Blue Water category; Pictures & Music and Finalist in David Doubilet Portfolio Categories
Dec 2022-Jan 2023 Nature TTL An Introduction to Blackwater Photography
July 2022 Issue Scuba Diving Magazine: Your Guide to Blackwater Photos
June 2022 Issue Scuba Diving Magazine: Florida Diving Seasons Article.
June 2022 Ocean Geographic 1st Place Runner Up
BLACK & BLUE WATER: The Dr William Hamner Award of Excellence
May 4/5, 2022 Guest Speaker ADEX Pixel Webinar Series, Singapore:
May 14-May 25, 2022 Anilao Photo Academy UW photo workshop, blackwater and macro.
March 2022 Memorial Maria Luisa International Photo Contest: 1st Place Submerged World and Honorable Mention Macro World
Dec 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards : Gold Award Nature Series: The Search for Aliens Underwater
Aug 2021 Scuba Diving Magazine "Thru the Lens" competition" Honorable Mention Sea Angel Spawning
August 2021 Dive Log Australia, issue 389 article; The Art of Black Water Diving
April 2021 Scuba Diving Magazine, Goliath on the Wreck of the Caribbean
2020 Ocean Geographic Picture of the Year, Runner up Pictures and Music
June 2020 Dive Photo Guide Photographing Blue Whales
May 15, 2020 ADEX Speaker (Panelist) on Black Water
April 2020 Scuba Diving Magazine (USA) Award: Sea Hero https://www.scubadiving.com/author-and-underwater-photographer-suzan-meldonian-named-sea-hero
Dive Photo Guide: Backscatter Mini Flash article http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-special-features/article/blue-heron-bridge-florida-backscatter-mini-flash?fbclid=IwAR09YY0uX6wB5oZNOUn0DNPZ6m6K6RjejZ7PcjvTj8GNdESOpgI_gR8bi8g
January 2020 Honorable Mention Ocean Art Contest BlackWater Category UWphotographyGuide.com
https://www.uwphotographyguide.com/ocean-art-contest-winners-2019#black
Nov 2019 Scuba Diving Magazine: No Place Like Home, Article & images on the Pride of the Blue Heron Bridge
Sept 2019: Fall issue Guy Harvey Magazine, Portfolio & article on The World of Black Water, and Also Alone in the Dark.
August 2019 Anima Mundi, Diving in the Dark
Article
July 2019 DRT Show Photo Contest top 100- Top 10 Finalist Image
June 2019 Scuba Diving Magazine, Korea, Portfolio
May 2019 UWPhotographers.net Portfolio
http://www.uwphotographers.net/2012/07/uwp-suzan-meldonian.html
May 2019 Birdshead Seascape:
Article:
April 2019 UW Photo Challenge Asia:
2nd Place Black Water:
https://www.uwphotochallenge.com/photodetails.php?id=121
April 11, 2019 The Blue Heron Bridge finally made a No-Take Zone recognition by Direction Eric Call to Suzan Meldonian for her Book Under the Bridge https://www.wptv.com/news/protecting-paradise/palm-beach-county-holds-event-celebrating-marine-life-protection-under-blue-heron-bridge?fbclid=IwAR3DryCqAmavHQ7QvCSGEHNcXq_b5LvncioKfaflR_HV7vQLdztLm1pGCXY
April 2019 Top 10 UW Asia Photo Challenge https://www.uwphotochallenge.com/2019top10.php
UnderwaterPhotography.com : Bronze winner in over/undershots: http://www.underwaterphotography.com/photo-contest/Winners.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0g63-zDWwvuc1Nxl0JXr3BM6fIgvL-u-TY1UD8JouTzdoq3gh5LRMFtQQ#.XKKlpNeDEZs.facebook
Viewbug TopShot Feb 2019
https://www.viewbug.com/user/topshotaward
Viewbug Won Featured January, 2019
https://www.viewbug.com/user/topshotaward
National Geographic
https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/8998532/
Cover of ScubaShooters Magazine
http://www.scubashooters.net/magazine/magazine-sep2018/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215018522089107&set=pcb.1931357966944763&type=3&theater&ifg=1
November 2018 Won Community Choice Award
https://www.viewbug.com/photo/77695529
Sept 2018 Viewbug Won Contest Finalist in World Photography Day Photo Contest 2018
https://www.viewbug.com/photo/77695529
June 2018 Viewbug Won Finalist in the Wildlife and Water Photo Contest: https://www.viewbug.com/contests/wildlife-and-water-photo-contest
Finalist Viewbug https://www.viewbug.com/blog/wildlife-and-water-photo-contest-finalists
May 16, 2018 Underwater Dive Photo Guide:
http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-special-features/article/aliens-deep-black-water-diving-florida/
April 2018 Contest Judge: Neville Coleman Nudibranch Event, Australia.
USA Today: Best Underwater Photos take in the World :
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/04/03/these-best-underwater-photos-taken-world/33501657/
ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/photos/2016-national-geographic-nature-photographer-year-contest-entries-42713780/image-42714108
National Geographic Photographer of the Year
https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/aenbv4/best-wildlife-photography-internet-national-geographic
2nd Place Overall: Beneath the Sea 2018 Photo contest
http://www.beneaththesea.org/imaging-competition/2018-imaging-contest-winners/68554
ScubaShooters Feb 2018 Issue 36
Article on Alligator diving in Florida pg 110
http://www.scubashooters.net/magazine/magazine-feb2018/index.html
Smithsonian, World Finalist
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/natural-world/papas-got-a-brand-new-bag/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
Smithsonian, Photo of the Day: Feb 20, 2018
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/photo-of-the-day/2018-02-20/fish-in-a-pyrosome/
Dive Photo Guide: Jan 2018
Photographing Alligators Underwater in Florida
http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-special-features/article/top-feature-stories-2018
2017
HEINZ Press: November 2017 Edition
Black Water Diving Imagery
http://en.heinz.press/v/7/heinz05
2017-2018 Ocean Geographic Picture of the Year: Winner Photojournalist of the Year;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f4t1wgORhw
October 2017 Underwater Photoraphy Workshop Dabirahe, Lembeh Indonesia
August 2017 2nd Place: Underwater Dive Photo Guide: Think Pink contest.
http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-scuba-ocean-news/announcing-winners-first-think-pink-photo-competition/
August 2017 DRT Top 100 Images of year:
July 2017 Photographer of the Week UW360 Asia
http://www.uw360.asia/underwater-photographer-of-the-week-suzan-meldonian/
May 2017:
Winner Ocean Geographic's Photojournalist of the Year
http://ogpicoty.ogsociety.org/results-2017/ocean-geographic-photo-journalist-award-2017/
+ Honorable Mention: Small Exotic Animal, The Neville Coleman Award for Outstanding Achievement
http://ogpicoty.ogsociety.org/results-2017/small-exotic-animal-winners-2017/
+Honorable Mention: OG's Portrait,
David Doubilet Award for Outstanding Achievement;
http://ogpicoty.ogsociety.org/results-2017/portrait-winners-2017/
April 21, 2017 Announced 3rd Place Deep Visions (2016) Macro ScubaShooters Underwater Photo Contest
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211181934136806&set=a.1613058538969.81729.1611461497&type=3&theater
March 2017 Contest Judge: Neville Coleman Nudibranch Event, Australia.
February 2017 EZ DIVE Magazine issue 64, pg 38 July 1st place winner UWMP, Cyclopsetta fimbriata
January 2017 Judge for the Neville Coleman Memorial Nudibranch Dive Photo Contest, Australia
https://www.facebook.com/events/701987239971951/
2-24-2016 Photo of the Day and Smithsonian Finalist
