2nd place
silver star award
William Goodwin
united states 
Photo © William Goodwin
title
In the Hall of the Shrimp Queen
Drive by an ardor to create images of the world that attract, excite and viewers with subjects, colors and passion, the artist has traveled the world (over fifty countries) in search of scenes characterized by near-universal appeal, with an eagle eye for the previously unportrayed.
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entry description
This diminutive Peppermint Shrimp keeps watch from her vase sponge where she almost never turns sideways which would permit me to keep her all in focus with the tiny depth of field allowed at this magnification - but she did! This was at 85' deep and it was quite the balancing act to illuminate her cave from without with my video light shining through the thin wall of the sponge and take the picture without touching the sponge and sending her running through a rain of detritus particles from the sponge interior. This was in the waters of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles some 50 miles from Venezuela.about the photographer
The artist is bound by blood to salt water and directed by mixed genetics to explore uncommon places and themes from a home base in Colorado. The artist/author graduated from UCLA (biology and English), undertook graduate studies in biochemistry, studied scientific photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, traveled the world, taught high school and university-level sciences, raised two children and founded two businesses.Drive by an ardor to create images of the world that attract, excite and viewers with subjects, colors and passion, the artist has traveled the world (over fifty countries) in search of scenes characterized by near-universal appeal, with an eagle eye for the previously unportrayed.
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