UPY 2025

UPY  Black & White - Commended
'Circle in the sun'
Enrico Somogyi

During a dive in Marsa Alam we saw this school of barracuda in about 15m depth forming a beautiful circle. I really wanted to photograph the swarm together with the sun. So I swam under the swarm and photographed vertically upwards to include the sun in the picture. Later when I looked at the picture on the laptop I thought it would look really good in black and white. I was very happy with the result.

Judge's comment: Such a nice an well lit image! The composition and the angle of the schooling barracudas is just perfect. It's not easy to have the right amount of light at these shiny creatures, but the photographer managed it very well. The sun on the background is just perfect in that corner and the conversion into black and white excellent. It's a little bit blurry around a good amount of the edges, otherwise it could have placed even higher.
Tobias Friedrich