UPY 2025

UPY  British Waters Macro - Commended
'Sea grass slug'
Dan Bolt

Torbay’s sea-grass beds form part of a wider Marine Conservation Zone and are a haven for many different species of marine aminals. In certain months many different species of nudibranch can be found living, feeding, mating and laying eggs on the seagrass. The gorgeous, almost reflective colour of the seagrass always gives a huge hit of colour to any photographs taken there, and finding this Polycera quadrilineata in just the right position was a real bonus.

Judge's comment: It is an unfortunate fact that the judging process is cruel. Dog eat dog, nudibranch eat nudibranch. The other unfortunate is that an honest judge can admit that, having had a week’s respite from looking at images, when I look at this one again it has grown and I now think that it should have moved up several places. That’s just unfortunate, unfortunately.
- Peter Rowlands