Amazing underwater life

Page 1 4: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Lionfish Larvae (Steven Covaz/UPY 20 1 7) Here, a rare little lionfish flapped its fin at photographer Steven Covaz, who caught it while diving in Palm Beach, Florida. . Kovac got good results in the macro competition of the annual underwater photographer masters. He participated in many competitions: photographers representing 67 countries submitted about 4500 pictures and scenes of underwater animals and won the title of underwater photographer of the year. In addition to ranking first, photos can also win prizes in any category of 10, including macro, wide angle and behavior. Life Science selected some of our favorites and showed amazing close-ups of fish, shrimp and other underwater creatures.

One in a Million (Ron Vawter Jenkins /UPY 20 17) Ron Vawter Jenkins took this photo called "One in a Million". Watkins said in a statement: "While searching for salmon sharks in Alaska, a jellyfish with whimsical lion mane swam among jellyfish for several hours, looking for their dorsal fins. At this time, we met a huge jellyfish, and its body was hundreds of meters long. " More surreal and dense than anything I have ever experienced, including the jellyfish lake in Palau. I happened to find this lionhead jellyfish emerging from the flowers, so I put myself directly on it and took this photo. "Watkins' photos won the wide-angle category.

Fireproof shed

(Dragos dumitrescu /UPY 20 17) The Romanian photographer Lagos dumitrescu described this alien as follows: "The underwater kingdom is amazing. But in most cases, we often only see rare and unique animals, and the most common themes are put aside. This anemone tube (you can find it almost anywhere) is a refuge for a group of teenagers until they can manage it themselves. They have a complete universe with many adventures. My purpose is to show the beauty that is not often seen. I use the backlight technology and the fine touch of the front flash to make teenagers pop up.

Dumitrescu's photo won the third place in the macro category.

Shrimp Backlight (Fabio Freitas /UPY 20 17) Fabio Freitas won the high praise award in the macro category. He took photos of shrimps at a place called "Special Things" near Bonaire Island.

"Shrimp is a very challenging topic; We must draw their beautiful colors and shapes, especially their eyes, "Freitas said. In an afternoon diving, "I saw this shrimp in a perfect position under the rock, using continuous light as backlight technology." I immediately turned off the flash and asked my friend to put the light behind the shrimp. He put the lamp where I wanted it. I only took four photos, and then the shrimp disappeared. It is important to know your own skills and the time when you use them, which is the key to making these special photos have something extraordinary.

Looking forward to her parents (Susannah H Snowden Smith /UPY 20 17), Susannah Snowden Smith won the macro category of "high praise" with this photo of a pair of claw shrimps lying at the bottom of a purple vase sponge. Snowden Smith said: "In Grand Cayman, shrimp with two claws is a rare discovery; This is the only shrimp I have seen in more than 300 dives on the island. " When diving, I formed a habit. Every time I meet a purple vase sponge, I will take a closer look. On this day, my husband and I went to a secret place in Grand Cayman. We call it "magic paradise" because we can always find the most amazing creatures there. I have never seen these shrimps before, because these two claw shrimps will be found later. I put a flash on the side of the sponge to provide backlight, and the other pointed at the top of the sponge to provide supplementary light.

Dragos dumitrescu /UPY 20 17, a strange-looking creature, is a frog who likes to "fish for the sake of fish", which is exactly what Dragos dumitrescu captured in this photo taken in the Philippines. This photo is about the hypnotic action of catching the temptation of frogs. Dumitrescu said, "I was fascinated by these strange-looking anglerfish, and used their bait and bait to try to turn the magic of attracting their unsuspecting prey into still images.

"black light"

(John Parker /UPY 20 17) John Parker won a high praise award in the macro category for this backlit photo. "A scorpion fish, in a secret place called Zelaya near Bali, Indonesia, Parker said," It took me 30 to 40 frames to adjust the lighting and get a black background, which was very difficult because it was daytime and only 12 meters. In a place called Rumbe in Indonesia, Luc Luhmann saw this anemone and clown fish at the end of diving.

Clownfish Vortex (Luc Luhmann /UPY 20 17). Roman had to take some photos through the aluminum tube he installed on the port in order to get a round mirror effect. Rooman's creativity paid off, and he won an award in the macro field. Alex Mustard, one of the judges, said: "Creative technology has always been part of the photo competition. The key to winning the competition is originality, making good use of technology and having the right theme. The color of anemone fish makes this vortex stand out.

Bare gill art (Catherine Lu /UPY 20 17) Catherine Lu photographed this bare gill in Semarang, Singapore. I want to do something different and turn the common bare pastures in our waters into a work of art. "I have always been fascinated by bubbles. This photo was inspired by seeing aquatic plants produce oxygen bubbles through photosynthesis." Lu said that the bubble image pasted on the green leaves is abstract, so the idea of creating "naked gill art" came into being.

Detergent (Fu Liang /UPY 20 17) Fu Liang won the third place in the behavior category, because this underwater photo of a moray eel with a "clean shrimp" in its mouth while diving in Turamben. "When I first dived, I took some positive photos. The eel in the photo has clean shrimp in its mouth. When I surfaced, I thought of a kind of lateral sea eel, which opened its mouth and had clean shrimp in it. So I tried diving for the second time, and the result was as I expected.

In "Scenery at Dawn" (pasquale vassallo/UPY 2017), Pasquale Vassallo captured the image of crabs moving towards jellyfish in Naples Bay, Italy. In the past few months, my photography work has mainly focused on a large number of jellyfish rhizobia in Naples Bay. In this photo, two crabs are its tenants. When jellyfish rub on the sandy seabed, crabs will jump on it and be taken to different places, "Vasallo said.

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