‘I especially wanted a view looking down at them,’ explains Cristobal, ‘to illustrate the beautiful, sinuous movement that characterises their elegant swimming style’.
Cristobal encountered these two blue sharks with their attendant pilot fish on a clear sunny day, where shark-migration researchers had submerged a container of bait. Blue sharks are among the fastest sharks. They can also travel vast distances – commonly up to 3,000 kilometres – utilising major currents, such as the Gulf Stream, to undertake their clockwise transatlantic migrations. They are one of the most heavily fished sharks in the world, highly prized for their large fins, used in soups.
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After graduating in optics and optometry from Alicante University and studying general management programmes at IESE Business School, at the age of 21, Cristobal’s interest in the environment, wildlife and the creative world led him to nature photography. All his projects have a common denominator, which can be summarised by the concept – the art of creation, is the art of nature.
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