3rd Place Portrait

Martin Broen

"Blue Crab in Cave"

The Story:

In order to help protect this hidden ecosystem that few people know, over the last 8 years I been exploring and capturing images in over 300 different cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula, and published the book "Light in the Underworld". In a DPV dive connecting several cenotes I saw this Blue Crab fishing in the cave flow where the salty water from the sea mixes with the fresh flow of the cave, standing on a stone and perfectly framed by the light entering the cenote from the jungle above, and tinted by the tannic acid in the water, beautifully representing the elements of the ecosystem.

Location:

Cenote Yax Chen, Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Equipment Used:

• Sony a7R3
• Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens
• Nauticam Housing
• Nauticam 140mm minidome and 
• BigBlue 15000lumen video light

Camera Settings:

• F/8.0
• 1/125sec
• ISO 3200