SEVENSEAS Marine Conservation & Travel Issue 10, March 2016 | Page 27

Left: 1st Place Supermacro by So Yat Wai. The story, "Owing to the shallow depth of field of super macro photography, it is hard to get both claws, face and tentacles in focus. Therefore i had kept shooting when I feel all these target points nearly rest in same focal plane. I have took around 60 shoots in order to get the skeleton shrimp stay in the centre of the frame and all target points in sharp focus." Location: Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia

Next Page Top: 1st Place Behavior by Steven Kovacs. The story, "When a female Striated frogfish is ready to spawn she rises towards the surface closely followed by the male. As she releases her egg mass the male fertilizes them. Coming across this Striated Frogfish pair on a local dive, I realized that they were about to spawn so I got prepared to photograph this rarely observed behavior. Shortly afterwards I was very fortunate to press the shutter the exact moment that the female released her egg raft." Location: Blue Heron Bridge, Lake worth Lagoon, Riviera Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Next Page Bottom: 1st Place Compact Behavior by Jack Berthomier. The story, "The picture was taken in Ouemo's Mangrove where I take 90% of my pictures and where I dive, always in freediving .This Tylosorus crocodulis was 20-25 centimeters long. The fish got used to me by swimming with him for multiple hours and days.I saw him attacking some other small fishes on surface around 6 times. Those where hidden in floating algaes.I managed to take pictures of three of those attacks Those attacks are very rare and go very fast. I had to follow the subject for at least 3 hours a day.when the batteries of my camera were empty , he still hadn't managed to swallow his prey which were from my point of view, too big for him.At that time, he wasn't moving anymore and as I never saw him again, I think he might have been eaten by a bigger predator as he looked vulnerable to me.Those fishes do only attack just living preys on surface and I'm not sure it could be possible to feed them." Note: Shot while freediving. Location: Ouemo Bay, Noumea, New Caledonia

Page 29: 1st Place Mirrorless Behavior by Walter Bassi. The story, "In my dive I saw the whole sequence of mating between male and female, like a dance in the blue, so much emotion. When you split a portion of eggs is left out of the belly of the male, the situation is very rare and unique. This picture was taken while the horse tries to retrieve the eggs.Fortunately he recovered completely. I thought it was a very unusual situation and I asked about a biologist friend told me that it could happen, but does not know the ragioni.Ho thought was the right photo for the category behavior, never seen photos of the moment. The main difficulty for me was not to bother the horse in order not to lose the eggs." Location: Capo Noli, Liguria Sea, Italy

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