Two Worlds Meet

Photographer

Category

Nature Photography - Underwater

Company

Karim Iliya Studio

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2023

Country / Region:

United States

This is where our two worlds meet. Freediver Brianna Zurlo playing with a giant baby humpback whale, one of the biggest animals to ever live on Earth. At less than 2 months old, she is bigger than a car, feeding on milk until she is strong enough to make the journey back to Antarctica with her mother. For more than an hour before, she was playfully breaching and swimming around, while her mother rested below. In this moment she stopped for a second, hovered to look at her human friend before going up to the surface to breath.