{"id":680892,"date":"2026-09-09T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/680892\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:43:14","slug":"sydney-photographer-gergo-rugli-wins-international-award-for-tamarama-beach-dolphin-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/680892\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney photographer Gergo Rugli wins international award for Tamarama Beach dolphin shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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September 10, 2026 \u2014 5:00am<\/p>\n

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Every day at work starts at the beach for Sydney photographer Gergo Rugli, and it was no different on the warm October morning when he captured the winning frame of the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

The photo of dolphins cresting a wave alongside two surfers at Sydney\u2019s iconic Tamarama Beach won in the competition\u2019s Adventure category.<\/p>\n

\"Rugli\u2019sRugli\u2019s winning photo of dolphins with surfers at Tamarama, Sydney. Gergo Rugli <\/p>\n

Judges said Rugli\u2019s photograph was \u201ca joyful collision of two worlds that share the same water\u201d.<\/p>\n

There was a huge swell in the surf that day, the 45-year-old recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was five, six metres at least. So I decided to jump in the ocean and started capturing these waves. And around half an hour later, a huge pod of dolphins came and they started surfing the waves with the surfers,\u201d Rugli told the Herald.<\/p>\n

Having grown up in landlocked Hungary, Rugli had no access to the ocean during his childhood and said he had always been fascinated by the water.<\/p>\n

He \u201cfell in love\u201d with Australia on his first visit 16 years ago, and decided to make the move to Sydney four years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I moved here, I just started focusing on the ocean \u2026 Since then, I only photograph seascapes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rugli\u2019s photo was one of more than 15,000 submissions from around the world across nine categories. The international award was announced in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning is basically a dream come true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The photographs captured by the competition\u2019s 116 finalists will be on display at the Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition opening at the Australian Maritime Museum on November 19.<\/p>\n

Winners in other categories<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"WinnerWinner of the Conservation (Impact) category.James Ferrara, Raa Atoll, Maldives\"WinnerWinner of the Wildlife category. Julien Anton, French Polynesia\"WinnerWinner of the Conservation (Hope) category.Thomas Pavy, French Polynesia\"WinnerWinner of the Human Connection Award: People and Planet Ocean category.Rui Duarte, French Polynesia<\/p>\n

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\"EmilyEmily Kaine<\/a> is a national news blogger at The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 10, 2026 \u2014 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":["post-680892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117243034095082965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}