Editorial

Staff · Issue 72, May/Jun 2013 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Nikon D600, Nikon D800

Editorial Cover Shot I make no apology for choosing this issue’s front cover. Photographically it’s not a brilliant shot but that’s not the point. The point is the subject matter and the image tells it like it is; stark, depressing and hopefully frightening. That is how powerful a photograph can be. Most normal mortals have an inbuilt fear of drowning and I hope that this image conveys in the strongest possible way what it feels like, for us, to effectively choke to death. The shark unfortunately was dead when the net was discovered but thankfully the ray was cut free and lived to swim another day. We had a similar front cover shot on UwP67 in July/Aug 2012 by Jordi Chias Pujol of a small turtle suffocating in a heavy fishing net. It had won the One Earth category in the recent Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 so it was obviously a good photograph photographica…