On the Baltic, children often challenge him to a test of courage: who would dare put their fingers into the wobbly mass of “disgusting” jellyfish washed ashore? Or even take them to scare others? What lies lifeless on the beach and looks like jelly-like cake turns out to be true underwater beauty.
Masterpieces can be hung in the galleries
Seahorses as proud prodigies, embracing each other in love with tutored octopuses in acrobatic contortions or jellyfish with glowing blue-green bioluminescence: David Letschwager has created true masterpieces with his photographs, when he captures sea creatures in such a breathtaking manner that the result can be hung in art galleries .
© David Letchwager (Detail)
How the photographer managed to present the animals in such an unusual technique of photographing against a white background – the photographer reveals little about this. He first studies things while diving into the sea, but the recordings come from aquariums he visits around the world. He always carried his 225-kilogram equipment with him, packed in 12 bags. It seems worth it, because it captures not only the unexpected beauty of animals, but also surprising situations. Once he pulled the trigger exactly at the birth of seahorse cubs: hundreds of tiny babies emerge from the thick male’s belly. It also turns jellyfish into floating sensitive creatures. Octopuses appear as a work of art when they wrap their tentacles without a pesky skeleton or protectively wrap them around young squid eggs, where new life can actually be sensed.
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