5th Place Macro

Irwin Ang

"Moonrise"

Irwin won a $100 gift certificate from Bluewater Photo or Bluewater Travel

The story:  I don’t have a specific style in my underwater photography — I just try to be different and use fresh ideas and techniques. When I saw this weedy scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa), I kept thinking to myself, I have got to do something special. I had only my dive torch, so I used it for backlighting. After around 100 clicks on the shutter, I checked the images on my camera screen and found this one. I knew I had achieved the picture I had hoped to create.  

Location: Lombok, Indonesia

Camera: Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 105mm Macro Lens (F16, 1/125, ISO 125) with Nauticam Housing and Inon LF800-N Light.

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