UPY 2018 British Waters Macro - Commended
Cathy Lewis
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UPY 2018 British Waters Macro - Commended
'Firework fountain'
Cathy Lewis
Fireworks anemones can reach around 30cm in height and live in long tubes buried in the substrate. They are quite rare in the UK but can be found in the silty depths of some protected Scottish lochs. As you swim down into the darkness they loom up out of the silt like fountains. I like to photograph them against a dark background to give them an ethereal quality, so I angled the strobes in towards the camera to create a narrow beam of light, keeping the muddy seabed in darkness and lighting up the anemone’s delicate tentacles.
Judge's comment: Judicious lighting and an angled composition have captured this appropriately named subject just right.
Peter Rowlands
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