Wildlife - Professional

The Eye of the Baitball

Cristobal Serrano
Spain

Nominee

"The Eye of the Baitball"
The image captures the frantic pursuit of a cormorant as it dives, bullet like, in its attempt to catch one of these grunts (Haemulidae) that constitute its diet. Sea of Cortez, Mexico.

Biography: His passion for photography began with his love of nature, and a desire to capture in an image what he feels through experience, perhaps upon experiencing something that no one else has experienced before. The fact that nature creates, evolves, perfects and embellishes offers him, as a photographer, a challenge which is permanently present in the search of the most aesthetic element. All his photographic work has a common denominator, which can be best summarized within the concept of: "The Art of Creation is the Art of Nature". “The images that most captivate me are those in which...

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