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22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
The big one

The whale shark in the photo is the result of a night dive and a chance encounter, the large animal approached the lights of a moored boat, where there was a large concentration of plankton. The difficulty is to take a wide photo at night and of a large animal in motion. Luck wanted it to appear in front of me, in all its majesty and the lights were well oriented, to be able to immortalize it in its entirety

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2016
Date Uploaded: 10.2024
Photo Location: Male, Maldives
Camera: NIKON D800E
Copyright: © Giacomo Marchione