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Runner-up
was NORBERT WU from the U.S.A. with a wide-angle shot of hammerhead
sharks passing overhead. Norbert took his wide-angle shot
at about 100 feet over an undersea pinnacle off Cocos Island,
west of Costa Rica, where the hammerheads gather possibly
to mate or to be attended by cleaner fish. The camera used
was a Nikon f4 with an 18 mm lens, in underwater housing exposed
for 1/125 sec @ f8 on Kodak Lumiere 100.
NORBERT
WU's arrow crab; JORGEN FREUND from Germany's bottle-nosed
dolphins; KELVIN AITKEN's humpback whale calf; American photographer/cinematographer
HOWARD HALL's separate photographs of a sperm whale and spiny
lobsters migrating; and MIKE JOHNSON's commensal fish and
salp were all highly commended.
BSoUP
member ALAN JAMES from Bristol won the "British Wildlife"
category for his double composition of a male great-crested
newt. Alan planned and shot the photograph exposing some dozen
rolls of film. The newt was photographed with a Nikonos V
with 28 mm lens and supplementary close-up lens using two
strobes at 1/90 sec @ f16/22 and the background with a Nikonos
15 mm lens at 1/90 sec @ f16/22 on Ektachrome 50.
Winner
of the "Animal Behaviour: All other animals" category
was FRANKLIN VIOLA from the U.S.A. with a tube sponge spawning.
The Caribbean tube sponges featured in Franklin's photograph
spawn once a year synchronously. Each sponge produces two-metre
long strands of mucus carrying a myriad of golden eggs. The
mucus helps keep the eggs together, increasing the likelihood
of them all being fertilised. The camera used was a Nikon
f4 with a 55 mm macro lens, in underwater housing, with two
strobes exposed for 1/90 sec @ fl6 on Kodachrome 25. |