Dragon

• Photographer
  Csaba Tökölyi

The Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) lives among the seagrass and hunts on tiny shrimp. It’s long snout was developed by hydrodynamical smartness: it suckles up the watercolumn with it’s prey without the latter sensing even a bit of water movement. Catching this portrait required both time and luck. Time for the seahorse to get accustomed to my presence, luck for having the animal to position itself in between patches of seagrass against the sandy bottom to get the crystal clear and bright background.