UPY 2025

UPY  Wide Angle - Highly Commended
'Shapes of life'
Rafael Fernandez Caballero

We are unique individuals and different from the rest, however, when we are together we create forms that from a distance can be seen as a single individual.
When you swim among a dense school of fish and enter into it, you can appreciate all those phases that show how the whole without the parts is nothing and how each part is essential to the whole. We are part of the ocean as the ocean is part of us. Flowing with their forms and being part of them is only a graphic representation of the reality to which we belong.
For me this moment with Gador Muntaner swimming among this school of fishes represented all these. It was a very special moment to play with a group of fishes like this.

Judge's comment: A strong visual composition with great depth and lighting will always catch the eye. - Peter Rowlands