UPY Marelux Macro - Third
Kat Zhou
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UPY Marelux Macro - Third
'Relentless gaze'
Kat Zhou
This photo depicts a close-up look at the eye of a nurse shark, taken on a night dive off the coast of Bimini in The Bahamas. Though this night dive was completely unbaited, one particular nurse shark, named "Relentless" for her unwavering presence on dives in the area, followed us around on the entire time, perching herself on the sand next to us every time we stopped and swimming after us when we moved. Since she was so calm around us, I took this opportunity to take a few close-up shots of her eye. Though the Bahamas are normally thought of as a wide angle destination, taking a macro lens helped me appreciate the beautiful details in these sharks, and this ended up being one of my favourite images I took on the trip!
Judge's comment: Abstracts are often full frame patterns from tiny detail but this eye catching (pun intended) image has impact; concentrated by the corner vignetted frame, it also gets better and better the larger it is.
Peter Rowlands
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