Honorable Mention / 2021 / Nature / Underwater

• Photographer
  Alfred Minnaar, Indonesia
• Studio
  Alfred Minnaar Photography

To find crossing whale sharks is truly a rare opportunity, for most of the time you find them moving solitary. But in a bay where few people visit in North Sumbawa, Indonesia you find an abnormally healthy whale shark population. Fishermen are fishing Krill and they are there for the fisherman's catch. Rather than being at war with the whale sharks they seem to entertain them, one fishing vessel seems to take the plunge allowing the other fisherman to pull up their nets in what seems to be an hour window. A nice picture of what is possible in a harmonious relationship between man and fish.