Camera Shy Over the years, Doubilet has learned a lot. He has learned about cameras and light. He has learned what makes a good photo. He has also learned about ocean habitats and the sea creatures that live in them. He knows that he can find many sea


creatures in kelp forests and coral reefs, for example. Big or small, he can identify the critters he sees. It may seem easy to take pictures of fish.


Aſter all, many kinds of fish swim in the ocean. Yet most of them don’t like to have their picture taken, Doubilet jokes. “Fish want to run away from you,” he says.


“You are a huge creature with air bubbling out.” So many of his photos show “the rear ends of fish swimming away.”


One of his favorite photos is an exception.


It’s a close-up shot of a colorful parrotfish. Tis fish doesn’t look like it minded having its picture taken. It looks like it is smiling. It isn’t. It was sleeping when Doubilet took the photo. He was lucky that the fish was sleeping. To


take these types of photos, Doubilet has to get as close as he can to a sea creature. In this case, he needed to be within arm’s


reach of the parrotfish. Te fish would not have liked being that close to Doubilet. It would have swum away—if it had been awake. Because the fish was sleeping, he was able to


shoot “a perfect smile,” he says. Later, when the fish woke up, it used its teeth another way. It chewed on corals. It was breaking the corals to eat the soſt parts inside.


This sleeping parrotfish seems to be smiling for the camera.


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