Pekka Tuuri, who specializes in underwater photography, spent four days in five-degree water to get the winning shot All You Need Is Love.
Three frogs wants to multiply. There are two males and one female in the embrace. There is a spawn around them.
Nature photographer Pekka Tuurin recorded sight of a group of tight frogs won two awards Underwater Photographer of the Year 2022 –in the race. 4,200 images from 71 countries took part in the British UPY competition for underwater images.
Picture All You Need Is Love was awarded in the Animal Behavior category and the My Backyard Award for filming his immediate surroundings.
Tuuri calls filming location as a “pond of love”.
It is located in Vantaa, a twenty minute drive from Tuuri’s home in Espoo. The photographer has been there often in the last ten years. Spawning grounds have become familiar.
Tuuri wants to keep the exact location of the pond of love a secret so that the peace of nature should not be disturbed.
Frogs often spawn in cloudy waters, such as the bottom of a ditch, but in the pond of love, the water is relatively clear. The beach is suitable for Tuuri to be able to approach the spawning from the beach by floating, and it will not be broken to spawn.
Tuuri snorkels for four days and nights in a dry suit, plenty of underwear and a thermal vest in late April 2021. This is how he survived in the five-degree water.
“I might be in my seat for an hour. It gets cold even by force, it gets deep and deep, ”says Tuuri.
He waited in place that the frogs allowed him to record a situation where two of the dogs have found the same female.
“It’s a pretty common triplet. The dogs hang on to the female with determination and they don’t let go, then nothing. It’s a violent-looking affection for the human eye, but frogs have been that way for millions of years. ”
The name of the picture was quoted by Tuuri from The Beatles’ 1967 song All You Need Is Lovebecause of him, “there is never too much love in the world”.
He knows that a naturalist would call the event reproduction.
“It is often thought that love is between people. I romantically want to extend it to other organisms as well. ”
Luck has been awarded several times before. His picture Liskomies was chosen as the Nature Picture of the Year 2021. In the picture, a water lizard hovers in a spawning pond. He became the Fifth Graphicist who has renewed his victory. Tuuri also took a nature photo of the year in 2010 with an underwater waterfall Towards light.
Pekka Tuurin Liskomies was chosen Nature Picture of the Year 2021.
Pekka Tuuri has been involved in underwater photography for more than 30 years. He uses a bubble-free diving device or snorkel to keep the fish as frightened as possible.
Tuuri has been working on a book about fish for nine years. The first work already sold out Underwater Finland appeared in 2013.
An Espoo-based graduate engineer works as a translator, for example. He doesn’t want to turn his passion into a job. Money could ruin a hobby where he is currently allowed to completely decide his destination. He calls himself a passionate amateur photographer.
“If it’s not a passion, I can’t stand it.”
Underwater shooting is cumbersome. Equipment can carry 50 pounds and should be safe to handle in the water. Luck mostly depicts caves, divers, wrecks and mines alone, in addition to animals.
In addition to Finland, Tuuri shoots in neighboring areas, such as Norway, Estonia and Sweden. The prize for the British race was a trip to Gulen, Norway, where you can go cold water diving.
Whale sharks are feeding in the main prize of the UPY race.
Underwater He received the title of photographer in the race Rafael Fernandez Caballero. In the picture of a Spaniard Dancing with the Giants of the Night whale sharks feed on plankton that has accumulated in the lights of boats in the Maldives.
The UPY competition, which has been held since 1965, rewards photographs taken underwater – in the seas, lakes, seas and artificial waters. The scale of British photographers has expanded into an international photo competition.
Pekka Tuuri considers UPY to be the world’s highest level underwater photography competition. According to him, all nature photography competitions are started from behind in Finland.
“The winners are Vau pictures with mountains, northern lights, whales and unicorns in the same picture,” says Tuuri.
“Finland is missing at least Unicorns.”
For an underwater photographer, the back distance is even longer because the waters are cloudy and the fauna doesn’t startle.
However, frogs are like underwater pandas for him. For the viewer, fun-looking animals become a “positive feeling”.
They are very mobile during the spawning event. This is exceptional in an underwater world that is usually very stagnant.
The frog was also chosen as the winner in the compact camera series. German Enrico Somogyin in the picture Peace there is a spawning season in Leipzig.
See the best underwater images below:
The winner of the compact camera series was Peace, which is in the process of spawning frogs in Leipzig.
The title of British Photographer was awarded to Matty Smith in the photo Great White Split, where a white shark swims near the surface of the sea in Australia.
The series of macro shots was won by a photo by Javier Murcia of Spain, Mimicry, where a shrimp and a sea urchin meet in Spanish waters.
The best of the wreckage series was the picture of Abandoned Ship by the Swedish Alex Dawson, in which the Norwegian Tyrifjord emerges as a diver in the light.
The portrait series was won by German Thomas Heckmann with his photo Rapunzel, in which the subject’s hair glows red in the underwater studio.
The best in the black photography series was awarded to Sarah’s Underwater World, where Australian Kerrie Burow has photographed a seven-year-old relative.
In the category of the Save our Seas Foundation, third place went to the tuna photographed by Pasquale Vassallo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
James Lynott’s Anemones won prizes in a series of British compact camera images.
Henley Spiers got third place in the British Water Series with his picture of a seal moon.
Javier Murcia finished third behind Pekka Tuuri in a series of behaviors in which a predatory fish (Sereranus Scriba) has taken another fish (Labrus viridisin) into its mouth.
Hannah Le Leu’s photo of an Australian broth turtle took third place in the widescreen series.
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