Blackwater
Depth -20 m
Location Off Kona, open Pacific
Season New moon windows
Commissioned by Institute of Open Ocean Science
Two or three nights a week I drift miles offshore over open ocean, tethered under the boat with a camera and a focus light, waiting for the deep to come up. Larval fish, pelagic jellies and animals nobody has named ride the vertical migration toward the surface. Sixty-one of the species in this series had never been photographed alive.
Trailing colonies in the focus light
Blue bells rising with the migration