Title : Fade
Photographer : Gregory Sherman , United States Award : Winner , Wide-angle
“ My dive partner and I chartered a boat to arrive at Stingray City on Grand Cayman before dawn so as to capture the morning light and undisturbed sand ripples . Just as the sun broke the horizon , a line of southern stingrays headed straight for me and I captured this image as they glided across the sand . Using a large dome port allowed me to create a split image showing the intensely colourful dawn sky contrasted against the nearly monochromatic stingrays and sand beneath the surface chop .” © Gregory Sherman / UPY2023
Title : Egg Eaters
Photographer : Kirsty Andrews , United Kingdom Award : First place , British Waters Macro
“ I have long admired others ’ pictures of nudibranchs feeding on the egg coils of other nudibranch species across the world . I ’ d also seen this nudibranch species , Favorinus branchialis , before , and I knew that it fed in this way , but never seen it in action until recently . I was therefore thrilled to find three large specimens feeding on a big coil of eggs in Shetland , Scotland . The eggs were several inches across , in a wide spiral , so the challenge was to isolate an appealing composition of eggs and nudibranchs .” © Kirsty Andrews / UPY2023
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