1st place
gold star award
matthew bagley
australia Photo © matthew bagley
title
Bubble Lion
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It’s easy to forget the energy that gets put into capturing moments. To understand what an image means to its creator. The mix of emotions of enjoying being in the moment whilst still feeling the crazy hunger to capture what you have visualised so many times before. Will you do it justice. I’ve watched them move. The way they interact play, and express emotion. Before I came to the moment, I knew what I wanted silky smoothness of fur the humanistic expression in their eyes but above all the bridge between air and water the trail that connects them to the surface. A small moment in the underwater world where they feel understood and appreciated something I can take with me in an image. Now you have my insight into this image hopefully you can feel the bridge that connects us to the surface when you are underneath.”
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entry description
“It’s easy to imagine an image. The alignment of perfect moments when light and composition collide. When you are waiting it feels like a lifetime away and when you are in the moment it feels like time stands still. Will your capture ever live up to what you had built in your mind before you got in the water. Before the two-hour boat ride. .
It’s easy to forget the energy that gets put into capturing moments. To understand what an image means to its creator. The mix of emotions of enjoying being in the moment whilst still feeling the crazy hunger to capture what you have visualised so many times before. Will you do it justice. I’ve watched them move. The way they interact play, and express emotion. Before I came to the moment, I knew what I wanted silky smoothness of fur the humanistic expression in their eyes but above all the bridge between air and water the trail that connects them to the surface. A small moment in the underwater world where they feel understood and appreciated something I can take with me in an image. Now you have my insight into this image hopefully you can feel the bridge that connects us to the surface when you are underneath.”
about the photographer
I’m looking for the perfect balance of light and composition. Those small moments in life where we feel perfectly connected to nature. In a single breath dive or the light bouncing on the ocean surface, there is so much beauty its hard to look past. I’m endlessly searching for those moments of natural interactions. I’m drawn to them. Not only to capture it but just to experience them.back to gallery