2021 APoY finalist, Daisuke Kurashima

Finalist Adventure Photographer of the Year

Daisuke Kurashima Japan

26°12'53.5"N 127°28'05.3"E

A humpback whale dives into the blue, emitting a large amount of bubbles. “This image is of a male humpback that showed up to escort a mother and calf,” says photographer Daisuke Kurashima. “I desperately tried to catch its eye, but it quickly disappeared. The whale's tail fin, showered in glittering bubbles which caught the sunlight, was so beautiful that it remains firmly in my memory.”