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Underwater photographer Alex Mustard shares his personal favourite 25 photos from 2025, showing the gear, settings and dive sites where he took them and discussing the techniques used and why he likes them. The photos come from Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Maldives, England, Switzerland and Canada. This is part 2 of Alex's end of year review. in Part 1 (the introduction to this countdown) Alex shares some behind the scenes footage from the shoots and a fast moving slideshow of 100 favourites that he couldn't squeeze into the top 25. You can watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/Sl45_17oIaM 0:33 Numbers 25-21 8:45 Numbers 20-16 14:12 Numbers 15-11 19:33 Numbers 10-6 26:38 Numbers 5-1 #underwaterphotography
Underwater photographer Alex Mustard recaps his underwater adventures and favourite shots from 2025. This video shares a short sequence recapping Alex’s diving and then a fast moving slideshow of 100 of his favourite images from the year. Alex made 296 dives and ran 12 underwater photography workshops in 2025, taking underwater photos in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Maldives, England, Italy, Switzerland and Canada. This is part 1 of 2 of his year end review. in Part 2 Alex talks in detail about his 25 personal favourite images from the year. Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/TISvoWhsXRg (available on 28th December) 0:00 Introduction 1:36 Underwater Adventures 8:35 100 Image Slide Show #underwaterphotography
Underwater photographer Alex Mustard reviews some of his latest images. These image are from Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia, taken during his More Mustard At Lembeh Resort workshop in November 2025. This is the third of 3 videos of a first pass of images, this video contains images of everything else - not in the first two instalments! Taken with Sony A1 camera, Nauticam housing, Retra Pro Max 2 flashes. Sony 100mm macro lens, Tamron 90mm macro lens and Nauticam lenses: MF0-1, MF0-3, EMWL-160. #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Lembeh
Underwater photographer Alex Mustard reviews some of his latest images. These image are from Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia, taken during his More Mustard At Lembeh Resort workshop in November 2025. This is the second of 3 videos of a first pass of images, this video contains images of molluscs (octopus, cuttlefish, nudibranchs) and some fish (anemone fish, bennies and gobies) Taken with Sony A1 camera, Nauticam housing, Retra Pro Max 2 flashes. Sony 100mm macro lens, Tamron 90mm macro lens and Nauticam lenses: MF0-1, MF0-3, EMWL-160. #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Lembeh
Underwater photographer Alex Mustard reviews some of his latest images. These image are from Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia, taken during his More Mustard At Lembeh Resort workshop in November 2025. This is the first of 3 videos of a first pass of images, this video contains images of frogfish, seahorses, ghostpipefsh and scorpionfish. Taken with Sony A1 camera, Nauticam housing, Retra Pro Max 2 flashes. Sony 100mm macro lens, Tamron 90mm macro lens and Nauticam lenses: MF0-1, MF0-3, EMWL-160. #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Lembeh
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The Underwater Photography Show

On The Underwater Photography Show is a YouTube based podcast on all aspects of underwater photography. The hosts, experienced underwater shooters, Alex Mustard and Matt Sullivan chat about techniques, equipment choices, locations and topical events in our community like contest results, shows and major publications. The aim of the show is to provide geeky, in-depth content about the specifics of your passion - underwater photography - in a conversational style.

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Matthew and Alex have both had the chance to shoot the Isotta Red 64 in the field and discuss this new, powerful strobe. The strobe has an UW guide number of 22, 10 manual powers, 8xAA batteries, HSS, no-TTL, and both fibre optic and electronic synch. You can read more about the Isotta Red 64 here: https://www.isotecnic.it/en/products-en/strobe/red64-strobe/strobe-red64-detail.html This is the 167th episode of the Underwater Photography Show. The show is hosted by Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and Matthew Sullivan (http://www.9milesnorth.com). You can find Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmustard1/ You can find Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/formerlyhomelessphotographer/ Articles summarising popular episodes of the show are published on Inside Scuba, do consider subscribing to their newsletter: https://insidescuba.online #TheUnderwaterPhotographyShow #underwaterphotography
Alex quizzes Matthew about the Nikon Z5 II - Nikon's best value full frame mirrorless camera, boasting 24.5 megapixels. Matthew tried the camera in Nauticam's NA-Z5-II housing in the field in both Florida and the Cayman Islands. Y ou can read more about the Nikon Z5 II camera here: https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/lineup/mirrorless/z5_2/ And more about the Nauticam housing here: https://www.nauticam.com/products/na-z5ii-housing-for-nikon-z5ii-camera This is the 166th episode of the Underwater Photography Show. The show is hosted by Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and Matthew Sullivan (http://www.9milesnorth.com). You can find Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmustard1/ You can find Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/formerlyhomelessphotographer/ Articles summarising popular episodes of the show are published on Inside Scuba, do consider subscribing to their newsletter: https://insidescuba.online #TheUnderwaterPhotographyShow #underwaterphotography
Matthew and Alex discuss the production Retra Maxi strobe that they have both shot in the field. They also bring in the views in other reviews published online, which we encourage you to read: https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/3192-preview-of-the-retra-maxi-strobe/ and https://blog.kiliii.com/underwater-strobe-shootout-marelux-apollo-iii-2-0-retra-maxi-seacam-160d-retra-pro-ii/ by Dave Hicks and Kilii Yuyan, respectively. 0:30 Introduction 1:45 Overall Impressions 3:04 Video light 3:48 Power Output 4:33 Controls & Ergonomics 5:48 Size & Buoyancy 6:28 Batteries 8:42 Colour Temperature 11:12 Alex’s Impression 11:54 Matt’c Impression 13:20 Kilii Yuyan Review 16:19 Continuous Shooting Tests 20:15 Dave Hicks Review 24:22 Conclusions This is the 165th episode of the Underwater Photography Show. The show is hosted by Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and Matthew Sullivan (http://www.9milesnorth.com). You can find Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmustard1/ You can find Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/formerlyhomelessphotographer/ Articles summarising popular episodes of the show are published on Inside Scuba, do consider subscribing to their newsletter: https://insidescuba.online #TheUnderwaterPhotographyShow #underwaterphotography
Matthew and Alex talk through the category winners of the Ocean Art Contest 2025. As always with contest reviews we like to look critically at the entries, discussing what we like and don't about the shots, as well as discussing why we think they appealed to the judges. You can see the full results here: https://www.uwphotographyguide.com/ocean-art-contest-winners-2025/ This is the 164th episode of the Underwater Photography Show. The show is hosted by Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and Matthew Sullivan (http://www.9milesnorth.com). You can find Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmustard1/ You can find Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/formerlyhomelessphotographer/ Articles summarising popular episodes of the show are published on Inside Scuba, do consider subscribing to their newsletter: https://insidescuba.online #TheUnderwaterPhotographyShow #underwaterphotography #OceanArt
Matthew and Alex talk through the category winners of the DPG Masters Contest 2025. As always with contest reviews we like to look critically at the entries, discussing what we like and don't about the shots, as well as discussing why we think they appealed to the judges. You can see the full results here https://www.underwatercompetition.com/Competitions/dpg-masters-underwater-imaging-competition-2025 This is the 163rd episode of the Underwater Photography Show. The show is hosted by Alex Mustard (http://www.amustard.com) and Matthew Sullivan (http://www.9milesnorth.com). You can find Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmustard1/ You can find Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/formerlyhomelessphotographer/ Articles summarising popular episodes of the show are published on Inside Scuba, do consider subscribing to their newsletter: https://insidescuba.online #TheUnderwaterPhotographyShow #underwaterphotography #DPGmasters
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