Creation
Biologist and photographer Laurent Ballesta from France won the overall prize for this photograph, titled “Creation.” The image, which also won top prize in the Underwater category, shows several grouper fish swimming through a cloudy mixture of sperm and eggs in Fakarava, French Polynesia.
‘The image works on so many levels,” Rosamund Kidman Cox, chair of the judging panel, said in a press release. “It is surprising, energetic, and intriguing and has an otherworldly beauty. It also captures a magical moment—a truly explosive creation of eggs hanging for a moment like a symbolic question mark.”
