A juvenile Caribbean Squid swimming just below the ocean's surface at sunset.
One evening of late October during a photographic work on coral larval growth, a small colorful squid approached me and stayed for several minutes among the lights of the underwater torches, as if he wanted to pose for a photo shoot! As it started to swim just below the surface, I thought it was worth to take some split shots (half underwater and half topside) with the amazing sunset's colors and atmosphere behind.
The atmosphere was perfect to enhance the colors of the squid and its refraction on the surface, with a black background the light of the strobes were lighting up only the subject. It turned up that I spent almost 40 minutes shooting at it and all its livery changes.
I wanted intentionally to leave in the micro particles that were in the water to give the idea of the real scene.
