UPY  Macro - Commended}

UPY  Macro - Commended
'Aegires sp. nudi crawls to a clubs shaped bryozoan'
Ludovic Galko-Rundgren

Tulamben is dense with tiny critters, and I mean really tiny. At first, it was the clover shaped bryozoan that attracted my eye while my guide Ajiex was showing me a small lump that was actually a nudi slowly moving towards its meal. I pulled out my SMC1 lens and asked Ajiex to help with the snoot. As per our usual routine we tried various light positions but the slight backlight became obvious with that composition. Probably the most difficult thing to achieve was to get the sharpness right on the 5mm nudibranch.

Judge's comment: An interesting behaviour photo of a feeding nudibranch, rendered in a limited palette of pinks, with the lovely lophophore details of the bryozoan revealed by precise backlighting.
- Alex Mustard