ENTRY DESCRIPTION
2016 La Paz, Mexico

Every spring and winter, Munk’s devil rays, migrate in their masses to the coastlines of the Baja California peninsula to feed on plankton and find mates. Quite often, these filter-feeding rays can be found in huge groups. A group of rays is referred to as a ‘fever’ but is also referred to as a school since rays are fish.

Munk’s devil rays grow to a maximum of a little over one metre wingspan making them the smallest species in their genus.

AUTHOR
Alan Lo, born to an engineer and a school teacher. Old ways of the world would expect him ending up as an academic or professional too. He was not inspired to be one. After many years of commercial photography work and constant soul searching. He found the passion he long seek and it was also the courtship of his wife, whom is a diver that lead him to discover the beauty of the underwater world. Her unknown secrets and beauty fantasize him. His formal training in photography in the UK and vast years of experience in commercial photography help Alan see and express his works of the underwater world in a version with new excitement. His multi-faceted approaches magnify his innovative and artistic flair in his works of the underwater.
A commercial photographer based in Hong Kong and a scuba diving aficionado, Alan Lo expresses his passion and curiosity to the underwater world through his multi-faceted approach to photography originated by his innovative and artistic interpretation of life, people and nature. .
Underwater photography is like shooting in a boundless outer space. It opens up the imagination of a mysterious world that extends the limit of depth and direction. By overcoming the challenge to maintain a perfect buoyancy control and to shoot through an incredibly thick medium of water, a photographer will be able to enjoy the endless new discoveries, which the underwater world brings to mankind.

“Get close, stay close and explore new possibilities” is what Alan has been demonstrating in capturing the precious moments during his diving trips

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