UPY 2025

UPY  British Waters Living Together - Highly Commended
'A pleasant day'
Tony Reed

I had been planning to try and get a shot like this for a while but I hadn’t had the right subjects or weather. Fortunately after a rather low viz murky dive in Scapa I was sat at the surface watching the MV Huskyan go by and thought that would make a nice photo. At this time I was too late as my camera was clipped up but then it turned around and came back so I unclipped and took a couple of shots with the wide lens on. The plumose anemones were taken 10 minutes before on the McGrath wreck I think which then gave me 2 shots from the one dive to merge together.

Judge's comment: Visually attractive and well combined photographically but the two elements were too separate to be fully ‘on message’. - Peter Rowlands