UPY 2023

UPY  Behaviour - Commended
'Organised chaos!!'
Paul Pettitt

This image was taken at Marsa Nakari (Red Sea Diving Safari) in late November. The optimum time to take this sort of picture in my experience is about 9am when the fish seem to be feeding and corralling tighter. In this image my intention was to try and freeze one individual whilst letting the rest go about their business.

Judge's comment: Even though the image idea is not new, the photographer managed this very, very well. We liked the slow shutter speed very much with the one mackerel perfectly standing out and in focus. Although we wished that it was a bit more on the golden ratio and not so close to the corner of the image.
Tobias Friedrich