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A Good Photograph Must Be One & Only
For 54 year old amateur photographer Bruce Yates, the recently arrived Natures' Best Photography Award 2008 is an astonishing gift for the new year. Due to scuba diving, he fell in love with underwater photography and also manages his hobby very well, Bruce, who is the boss of an investment company, photographed a “smiling” lemon shark and became the “Marine Winner” of the Nature Best Photography Competition, defeating over 20000 entries.
My Lens Was Just a Few Inches Away from the Shark
When Bruce Yates submitted this photograph for the competition, he named it “Cheshire Cat”, from an English proverb “grinning like a Cheshire Cat”. In the photograph, the shark is showing snow-white teeth, with a very cartoon-like “smiling” expression, “That was an 'expression' I have never seen on a shark, I don't know that I would have an opportunity to take a photograph like that”, Bruce Yates said. However, he admitted that the shark only looked like it was smiling, in actual fact, at that moment, it had just preyed on small fish and was about to close its mouth.
The photograph was taken in July 2007, when Bruce and his wife went to Bahamas north-west many miles from the land, partly for scuba diving, the other reason is to see sharks. “At that time, there were more than 10 sharks around the boat, they were competing to capture the small fishes in the waters. “I took this photograph from the boat's platform and put the camera half-submerged in the water. Before that, I set the shutter, aperture and flash (so that the sunset can be seen clearly), and fixed a 15mm fisheye lens. Once the camera is half-submerged, the 8 foot shark was just a few inches away.”
As all know, sharks are the marine food chain's apex predator; Spielberg's Jaw's increased the sharks' image of terror to the max. It is not a small risk to photograph shark at such close distant. After this email interview with Bruce Yates, his answers eased the worry. In Bruce's eyes, lemon shark is a more docile type of shark. “I have experienced being in the waters with over a hundred sharks, but I have never been afraid. Although their teeth make them look very fierce, the lemon sharks' threat to men is actually minuscule.
Bruce said he had encounters with bull sharks (?), tiger sharks and hammer-head sharks etc and also other sharks. He mentioned that it is indeed essential to maintain utmost vigilance around some sharks (especially bull sharks & tiger sharks), but with lemon sharks, it is not so. “Lemon sharks commands fear and respect and is a wonder type of sharks. Unfortunately, when we observe them in water, we have to keep a further distant, of course, if you fear them, distant to you is a fortunate thing.” Bruce said, “Ordinary people who like to get close to the sharks, should be accompanied by professionals who understand the sharks' habits. Under their supervision, with careful attention to one's behavior and not to excite or anger the sharks, the risk of sharks’ attacks is very low. In actual fact, people who are killed by sharks' bite are far less than people killed by dogs, attacked by venomous snakes or killed by bicycle or skiing accidents.
The thing that worries Bruce is: the global shark population is rapidly declining due to man's massive catch/kill. In order to satisfy man's taste bud, fishermen slice off the fins from the live sharks to sell and then throw the sharks back into the sea, leaving the finless sharks to starve to death.
Started underwater photography at age 40
Understanding sharks is the result of long-term interaction with these marine creatures. Although Bruce is an amateur underwater photographer, he already has 15 years of underwater photography experience.
At 40 years old, he received his scuba certificate and fell in love with this sport. After a few years of diving, he decided to try underwater video-graphy. At first, he used video camera to capture the underwater scenes but the problem was that video frequency edition could only be done at home. So, video camera was changed into a 35mm SLR. In 2000, the SLR was changed to a DSLR, and Bruce also custom made a waterproof camera housing.
Other than photography, Bruce is the owner of an investment company, with 17 employees; the company has been operating for more than 20 years, with clients spread over the 26 states of America. Bruce said underwater photography is his most enjoyed escape from mundane life. His favorite location is Indonesia's Raja Ampat and Papua New Guinea, because these places have unique marine creatures.
Other than underwater photography, Bruce also occasionally shoots some wildlife on land, such as precious moments of adult polar bears strolling with cubs and brown bears catching fish at Carter (?) National Park. Bruce said these photographs are shot when he joined nature tours; they always kept safe distant from the bears, so they were not afraid of being attacked. “At some situations especially when being threatened or startled, then the bears will attack, but humans are not in their daily food chain, so they are not very interested in us.”
Bruce prefers underwater photography to land photography. “In water, the target/intention of photography is usually clear, a fish, a sea turtle, or the coral reef. However, on land, many things will create disturbance to the shoot, I no longer have the artistic feeling that I have for the underwater photography. But I am working to overcome this.”
During the interview, Bruce frankly admitted that he did not feel that his photography skills won the judges over. “I think, the reason this photograph stood out from more than 20 thousand photographs was the unique expression on the shark's face. This photograph was not perfect in terms of skills but the shark showing the toothy grin could immediately attract attention, obviously, it also worked on the judges. This also means that not only specialists or professional photographers can shoot good photographs. If you have talents, plus enough experience, you can also capture a one and only, attention grabbing photograph.”
Donated over 10 Thousand USD to Charity
Bruce said he has not thought about earning money from photography, but he has a website which the interviewer is able to browse and buy his photographs in different sizes.
In 2007, Bruce carefully chose 12 photographs of marine creatures and created a calendar for sale on the website and earned 12 thousand usd which he donated entirely to PKD Foundation.
PKD is a genetic disease, the growth in the kidney will cause kidney failure, sufferers must continuously receive dialysis and only kidney transplant can save them. According to PKD Foundation website, there are more sufferers of PKD than sufferers of genetic pancreatic disease, muscular atrophy, Hemophilia, Tang syndrome but not many people have heard of it.
Bruce first learned of PKD because 2 staff of his company has family members who suffered from it. “I convinced the company's partner to pay for the costs of the producing the calendars.” Bruce chose some of his favorites from a few hundred photographs and ingeniously put together all the months. “For November, I chose an orange color green salmon, because it looks like a pumpkin.” Bruce plans to donate all the revenue from the 2008 calendars to the International Children's Surgery Fund.
The Beijing Evening News should be commended for featuring an article about the award-winning amateur underwater photographer, Bruce - his love for sharks, scuba diving & also his charity work! 
