Médaille d'argent dans la catégorie « Photographie Animalière »

Taken in the shallow, crystalline waters of Los Roques, Venezuela, this monochrome portrait captures a juvenile lemon shark in a moment of fleeting descent. Swimming remarkable close to the turbulent surface, the shark’s world is overlaid by a striking perspective of the sky above, where define white clouds are clearly visible through the water column.

The streamlined shark is captured mid-motion, moving diagonally downward like a precise arrow, its eye fixed ahead. Dappled light patterns (caustics) dance across its textured skin and the detailed, sandy seabed below, creating a rich tapestry of light and shadow. The image is an exploration of the thin boundary between the ethereal heavens and the raw, natural aquatic environment, frozen in time.