Winners Gallery
Finalist Adventure Photographer of the Year
Daisuke Kurashima Japan
26°12'53.5"N
127°28'05.3"E
A humpback whale dives into the blue, emitting a large amount of bubbles. “This image is of a male humpback that showed up to escort a mother and calf,” says photographer Daisuke Kurashima. “I desperately tried to catch its eye, but it quickly disappeared. The whale's tail fin, showered in glittering bubbles which caught the sunlight, was so beautiful that it remains firmly in my memory.”
BEHIND THE LENS
Daisuke Kurashima Japan
ABOUT THE IMAGE
- Glassy calm water
- Captured late morning
- Taken while snorkelling
- 16 hours to create the image
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Enjoy the vibrancy, beauty and impact of each year's finalist photography, celebrated in our Ocean Photographer of the Year coffee table book collection.
