Petr Polách - Photography

CZ EN
Lampar in Prague 1980

Lampar in Prague 1980

Tunnel

Tunnel

Beauty of flooded caves

Beauty of flooded caves

Wreck

Wreck

Cave Eye

Cave Eye

Diving under halocline

Diving under halocline

Lucernaria

Lucernaria

Small satellite

Small satellite

Wide cave

Wide cave

Resting starfish

Resting starfish

Lost in deep

Lost in deep

Lucernaria quadricornis

Lucernaria quadricornis

Stalactites

Stalactites

Jellyfish hair

Jellyfish hair

Under ice

Under ice

Foggy cave

Foggy cave

S-road

S-road

Lanterns in the autumn frost

Lanterns in the autumn frost

L-road

L-road

Sunset mirroring

Sunset mirroring

Portrait of Petr Polách

About the Photographer

I started photography more than forty years ago and have been dedicated to underwater photography since 2006. I specialize in landscape photography and underwater photography, particularly diving in cenotes and caves of the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula.

Photographic Achievements

  • 🥇 1st place - Gold Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2025 (PX3 2025) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Fantasy of Nature
  • 🥇 1st place International Photography Awards 2025 (IPA 2025) , category Sports/Extreme sports , photography Diving in caves
  • 🏆 Main prize: Discovery of the year 2021 and 1st place CHROMATIC AWARDS 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Under the White Sea ice
  • 🥇 1st place MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Mystery of flooded caves
  • 🏆 Finalist Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2021 , category Masterpiece by SanDisk Professional , photography Blue cave eye
  • 🥈 2nd place Ocean Art Safe Under The Sea 2020 , category Underwater Art , photography Under the Ice of the White Sea
  • 🌟 And many other international awards...
  • 🥉 3rd place - Bronze Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (BIFA 2025) , category Special Categories/Smartphone Photography , photography Out of Tunnel
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (BIFA 2025) , category Editorial-Sports , photography Diving In Flooded Caves
  • 🥇 1st place - Gold Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2025 (PX3 2025) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Fantasy of Nature
  • 🥇 1st place - Gold Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2025 (PX3 2025) , category Nature/Other , photography Cave Hall
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2025 (PX3 2025) , category Nature/Landscape , photography Snake road
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2025 (PX3 2025) , category Fine Art/Other , photography Out of the tunnel
  • 🥇 1st place International Photography Awards 2025 (IPA 2025) , category Sports/Extreme sports , photography Diving in caves
  • 🥈 2nd place International Photography Awards 2025 (IPA 2025) , category Special/Other , photography Tunnel
  • 🥉 3rd place International Photography Awards 2025 (IPA 2025) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Cave Eye
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monovisions Photography Awards 2025 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Cave eye
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monovisions Photography Awards 2025 , category Abstract , photography Unknown satellite
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Annual Photography Awards 2024 , category Nature: Natural Landscapes , photography Flooded caves landscape
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Annual Photography Awards 2024 , category Nature: Natural Landscapes , photography Scenery of flooded cave
  • 🌟 Nomination World ShootOut Competition 2024 , category Best photo of the year , photography Cave diving
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2024 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Cave scenery
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2024 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Under Halocline
  • 🥈 2nd place - Silver Tokyo International Foto Awards 2024 (TIFA 2024) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Like In The Theatre
  • 🥉 3rd place - Bronze Tokyo International Foto Awards 2024 (TIFA 2024) , category Events/Sport , photography Diving In Caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards 2024 (TIFA 2024) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Winter landscape at sunset
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards 2024 (TIFA 2024) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Underwater Cave Scenery
  • 🥈 2nd place Chromatic Awards 2024 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Scenery of flooded cave
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2024 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Beauty of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2024 , category Sports (Amateur) , photography Like in the theatre
  • 🥉 3rd place - Bronze winner Budapest International Foto Awards 2024 (BIFA 2024) , category Events/Sport , photography Diving In Caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Budapest International Foto Awards 2024 (BIFA 2024) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Diver In Flooded Cave
  • 🥈 2nd place ND Awards 2024 , category Nature: Seascapes/Waterscapes (Non-professional) , photography Mayan Underworld
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2024 , category Nature: Other category (Non-professional) , photography Hells Bells
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2024 , category Landscape , photography Electricity for lighthouse
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2024 , category Landscape , photography Landscape of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2024 , category Wildlife and Animals , photography Jellyfish hair
  • 🥇 1st place International Photography Awards 2024 (IPA 2024) , category Special/Other , photography Diving under halocline
  • 🥈 2nd place International Photography Awards 2024 (IPA 2024) , category Nature/Other , photography Blue eye
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention International Photography Awards 2024 (IPA 2024) , category Sports-Extreme , photography Penetration into flooded caves
  • 🥈 2nd place - Silver Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2024 (PX3 2024) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Under Ice
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2024 (PX3 2024) , category Special/Night Photography , photography Lampar in Prague 1980
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2024 (PX3 2024) , category Press/Sports , photography Diving in caves
  • 🥉 3rd place Annual Photography Awards 2023 , category Nature: Natural Landscapes , photography Landscape of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Annual Photography Awards 2023 , category Nature: Wildlife & Animals , photography Lucernaria
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Annual Photography Awards 2023 , category Special: Open Category , photography Under the ice on the Arctic Circle
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2023 , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography Scenery of flooded cave
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2023 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Jellyfish hair
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2023 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Beauty of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023 (TIFA 2023) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Diver In Front of The Curtain
  • 🥉 3rd place - Bronze winner Budapest International Foto Awards 2023 (BIFA 2023) , category Nature/Underwater , photography Under Water In A Cave
  • 🥉 3rd place - Bronze winner Budapest International Foto Awards 2023 (BIFA 2023) , category Nature/Landscapes , photography Sheep In The Last Sunlight
  • 🥇 ND Nature Discovery Of The Year 2023 and 1st place - Gold ND Awards 2023 , category Nature: Seascapes/Waterscapes Non-Professional , photography Under the ice on the Arctic Circle
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2023 , category Nature: Landscapes (Non-Professional) , photography On a sandstone rock
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2023 , category Nature: Macro/Micro (Non-Professional) , photography Small satellite
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2023 , category Nature: Seascapes/Waterscapes (Non-Professional) , photography Water scenery of flooded cave
  • 🥉 3rd place IMACRES Awards 2023 , category Wildlife and Animals , photography Lost in deep
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2023 , category Wildlife and Animals , photography Jellyfish hair
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2023 , category Landscape , photography Electricity for lighthouse
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention IMACRES Awards 2023 , category Landscape , photography Landscape of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention International Photography Awards 2023 (IPA 2023) , category Nature/Other Non-Professional , photography Beauty of caves
  • 🥉 3rd place - bronze Analog Sparks 2023 , category Human/Other , photography Lampar In Prague 1980
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3 2023) , category Nature/Underwater (Non-professional) , photography Small satellite
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3 2023) , category Press/Sports (Non-professional) , photography Cave diving
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monovisions Photography Awards 2023 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Art of nature
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monovisions Photography Awards 2023 , category Travel , photography Wreck
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Annual Photography Awards 2022 , category Nature: Natural Landscapes , photography Landscape of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention 2022 Monochrome Awards , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography Landscape of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention 2022 Monochrome Awards , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography Landscape of stalactites
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention 2022 Monochrome Awards , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Flooded cave scenery
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention 2022 Monochrome Awards , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Stalactite kingdom
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention 2022 Monochrome Awards , category Wildlife (Amateur) , photography Emerging out of the Sand
  • 🥉 3rd place Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Sports (Amateur) , photography Cave diving
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography S-road
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography On a sandstone rock
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Jewels
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Hell's Bells
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2022 , category Wildlife and Animals (Amateur) , photography Sea angel portrait
  • 🥇 1st place Budapest International Foto Awards – BIFA 2022 , category People/Life Style , photography In The Hot Spring
  • 🥉 3rd place ND Awards 2022 , category Nature: Seascapes/Waterscapes (Non-professional) , photography Under ice
  • 🥉 3rd place ND Awards 2022 , category Special: Panoramic (Non-professional) , photography Sunset time
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2022 , category Landscapes (Non-Professional) , photography Icelandic roads
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention ND Awards 2022 , category Seascapes/Waterscapes (Non-Professional) , photography Jewels
  • 🥉 3rd place IMACRES Awards 2022 , category Wildlife and Animals , photography Small satellite
  • 🥈 2nd place, Silver Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3 2022) , category Press/Sports (Non-professional) , photography Ice diving
  • 🥉 3rd place, Bronze Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3 2022) , category Nature/Underwater (Non-professional) , photography Natural beauty of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3 2022) , category Nature/Other (Non-professional) , photography Lucernaria
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MonoVisions Photography Awards 2022 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Cave scenery
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MonoVisions Photography Awards 2022 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Stalactite kingdom
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention MonoVisions Photography Awards 2022 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Stalactite grid
  • 🏆 Main prize: Discovery of the year 2021 and 1st place CHROMATIC AWARDS 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Under the White Sea ice
  • 🥉 3rd place Chromatic Awards 2021 , category Sports (Amateur) , photography Cave diving
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2021 , category Landscapes (Amateur) , photography Blue cave eye
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2021 , category Sports (Amateur) , photography Cave diver silhouette
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Stalactites
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Magic Temple
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monochrome Awards 2021 , category Street (Amateur) , photography Lampar in Prague 1980
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monochrome Awards 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Deep Sunny Cave
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Monochrome Awards 2021 , category Nature (Amateur) , photography Cave eye
  • 🏆 Final placement among six best Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2021 , category Masterpiece by SanDisk Professional , photography Blue cave eye
  • 🥈 2nd place - silver star ND Awards 2021 , category Nature: Underwater (Professional) , photography Mystery of flooded caves
  • 🌟 Honorable Mention Neil Dankoff Photography Competition 2021, 500px Fall Edition , category Wildlife , photography Lucernaria Quadricornis
  • 🥇 1st place MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021 , category Nature and Wildlife , photography Mystery of flooded caves
  • 🥈 2nd place Ward Museum Photo Festival 2021 , category Documentary & Journalist Photography , photography Diving in Flooded Caves
  • 🥈 Second position - Runners-Up Neil Dankoff Photography Competition 500px Edition 2021 , category Landscape , photography Blue Cave Eye
  • 🥇 TOP 10 awards Photo Is Light 2020 , category Landscape , photography Blue Eye
  • 🥈 2nd place Ocean Art Safe Under The Sea 2020 , category Underwater Art , photography Under the Ice of the White Sea
  • 🥈 2nd place Ocean Art Safe Under The Sea 2020 , category Wide Angle , photography Flooded Magic Castle
  • 🥇 1st place (Gold) DEEP Indonesia 2020 , category Divers , photography Diver in the Magic Temple
  • 🥈 2nd place (Silver) DPG/Wetpixel Masters Underwater Imaging Competition 2020 , category Wide Angle Traditional , photography Dragon's teeth
  • 🏅 4th place Ocean Art 2019 , category Macro , photography Lucernaria Quadricornis
  • 🏆 Placement among twenty semifinalists Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019 , category Creative by Skylum , photography Diving in the flooded cave La Concha-upstream
  • 🏆 Grand Jury Winner View Bug 2019 , category Best photo of the year , photography In the flooded cave Vaca Ha – upstream