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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fifty One: Using diagonals for guidance, energy, and meaning > Under the Red Sea, off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 2011
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15-NOV-2011

Under the Red Sea, off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 2011

Sharm el-Sheikh, a tourist mecca at the tip of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, has become a favorite spot for scuba divers and snorkelers from around the world. It is on the Red Sea, which offers stunning underwater scenery, warm, clear water, and many fish. I am not an underwater photographer, but I was able to express some of the beauty under the Red Sea by shooting through the window of a submersible tourist boat. During a half hour of shooting, I made least 400 images, and this one was my favorite, largely due to the diagonal flow of both coral and fish. I could not control my vantage point, or the behavior of the fish. I could only hope that my moving camera position, the position of passing schools of fish, and the placement of the coral landscape, might eventually form a coherent moment in time within my frame. Everything came together for me in this image – the diagonal flow of bubbles from our boat in the upper left hand corner is echoed by both the diagonal procession of variously sized fish and the diagonal thrust of green and black coral that rises from below within a frame of deep blue water. Together, they coalesce to express the beauty of the Red Sea itself.

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