TITLE: Ghosts of the Ocean

Jellyfish fascinate me. There is on particular on named Turritopsis dohrnii and he is officially the only immortal animal in the world. Also, Jellyfish are older than dinosaurs, they have no brain, heart, bones or eyes. I photograph them in B&W to show them as ghosts floating around. Their silent, graceful movement reminds me of ghosts which brings me to the title "Ghosts of the Ocean"

I particularly like to photograph them in B&W due to the many colours they have. This creates so many different tones and allows me to change the colour to many different tones of B&W.

AUTHOR: David Williams (Japan)

David Williams is a photographer living in Tokyo, Japan. He is originally from the UK. He discovered his passion and love for photography while going through a bad time in his life. While living in the countryside of Japan, frustrated with the language he then turned to alcohol to release his frustrations. While travelling a bad road he was then introduced to photography by a friend. He automatically started experimenting with different genres of photography and didn't settle on one type for a few years. He joined an online photography school and quit alcohol. Moving back to Tokyo in 2013 he started visiting a local lake to take photos of wildlife. David said "It was magical", it was like something clicked. He then knew his genre of photography was animals. He then started visiting Zoo's and fell in love with Zoo photography. Since then David has won many photography contests and the main one that he is so proud of is the Canon Gallery photo contest. His work was on exhibition around Japan for 4 months. David has had his work published in Newspapers around the world many times, but he prefers to take photos that express his feelings, his emotions, and his frustrations. He prefers this instead of taking pretty or funny photos to amuse the masses. Nowadays while struggling with anxiety he is focusing on his photography of Jellyfish. David says "They fascinate me" I love to photograph them in B&W as it is quite unusual and I very much enjoy the tones. Recently David won Silver in the nature category of the TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) photo contest.