UPY 2025

UPY  Black and White - Third
'Double turtle'
Renata Romeo

During the long months of the pandemic I had to revise, like everyone else, my usual way of life and had to replace the usual diving with snorkeling and this activity surprisingly gave me new time and space, interesting perspectives and different points of view. It gave birth to my life in a time of shadows. This summer, snorkeling very early in the morning in Marsa Egla, I often met the smaller and friendly hawksbill turtle of the bay. Enchanted by its elegant movements, I watched it for hours eating and breathing.
I noticed that particular conditions of light and sea made perfect the reflection of its being on the surface. For days I have been waiting patiently for that favorable situation and that its figure could be captured in a photo as I imagined it: a perfect moment of freeze its geometries in the light reflected on the surface.

Judge's comment: Lovely tones and perfect reflections. The imperfection in Snell’s Window especially highlighted with the turtle, seeming to be looking at it, sealed the deal.
- Peter Rowlands