A checklist of 5 whale sharks feeding together at evening within the waters off the Maldives resulted in Rafael Fernandez from Spain being named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2022.

Fernandez’s photo triumphed over 4200 underwater photographs entered by underwater photographers from 71 countries. The checklist captures a explain ocean tournament, taken in anxious photographic prerequisites.

“Giants Of The Night” substances 5 whale sharks feeding together on nocturnal plankton which had been concentrated within the lights of a boat.

Consistent with Fernandez:

“It became once already inconceivable when one whale shark came to our boat. But an increasing form of kept arriving. I became once diving with Gador Muntaner, a shark researcher, who couldn’t give it some conception as their numbers grew. He counted 11 sharks that evening — a once in a lifetime come across that no-one conception became once possible.”

Opponents make a determination Peter Rowlands talked about:

“This image took my breath a long way from the first viewing and I never drained coming back to it. Scale, light and the sheer numbers of mountainous topics, this became once, by a long way, our successful image.”

And fellow make a determination Alex Mustard added:

“Pictures wants light and merely recording these giants in a downhearted ocean is a extensive success. To set apart that with such gorgeous light and cautious composition of the 5 sharks is prominent.”

Take a look at up on the stout checklist of winners at underwaterphotographeroftheyear.com.