Our Judging staff for the 2010 Competition:

• Mike Mesgleski has been teaching Underwater Photography since 1987, helping countless students create thousands of beautiful images of our underwater world. Among his awards, Mike is an inaugural year recipient of the prestigious SSI Platinum Pro certification.
   
• Mike Haber, an equally qualified instructor, is a professional photographer both topside and underwater. Mike's studio subjects and nature images reflect the wide range of his photographic skill and creativity. Mike is also proud to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Marine life Preservation Society.
  
  For eighteen years, Mike & Mike were associated with Jim Church, a pioneer of modern underwater photography. They collaborated with Jim on three of his books and have team-taught underwater photography with him in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. Jim selected them to continue his style of U/W photography instruction on board the live-aboard dive vessels of the Aggressor Fleet. Together, Mike & Mike operate the Jim Church School of Underwater Photography.
  
  Mike & Mike have had articles and photographs published in magazines such as Skin Diver, Ocean Realm, Undercurrents and Scuba Times. Their book and video ER - Emergency Repair for the Nikonos V Camera has been designated an "essential part of any underwater photographer's travel kit" by famed underwater photographer Stephen Frink.
   
• Stephen Frink  is among the world's most frequently published UW photographers, and is a Canon EXPLORER OF LIGHT, the only marine specialist within this very elite group of photographers.
  
  He is the publisher of a beautiful new quarterly magazine for the Divers Alert Network, ALERT DIVER. Previously, his editorial work appeared in SCUBA DIVING as Director of Photography. Frink has authored a coffee table book entitled WONDERS OF THE REEF, and teaches the Stephen Frink School of Underwater Digital Imaging in his home waters of Key Largo, Florida.
  
  Clients for assignment photography over the past 3 decades have included Canon, Nikon, Victoria's Secret, Aqua Lung, Oceanic, Scubapro, Mercury Marine, Jantzen, Alcan Aluminum, R.J. Reynolds, Seaquest, Henderson Aquatics, Club Med, major ad agencies, and scores of resorts and live-aboard dive boats throughout the world. Rolex Watch Company has also engaged Frink for product endorsement.
  
  Other Frink enterprises include a dive travel company, WaterHouse Tours and Reservations and a stock photo agency, Stephen Frink Collection. Stephen Frink Photographic is the North and South American for the Austrian camera housing manufacturer SEACAM.
   

List of Past years Competition Judges.