In the world of photography, iconic moments are captured with the perfectly-timed snap. Or recreated with one. That’s what British expat photographer Euan Rannachan experienced when he basically recreated the famous Jaws movie poster from promotion of the 1975 film. The poster is an over-under cartoon of a great white shark rocketing towards the surface as a swimmer plies the water.
Rannachan, a filmmaker and shark photographer, had a few human factors working in his favor to get the snap of this girthy great white, though. First, he was in a shark cage off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island, about 150 miles west of Baja. Second, the shark was getting chummed with tuna. Rannachan told British media that this particular shark was probably annoyed and went deep below the cage before rocketing back to the surface to snag a snack. Rannachan, who now lives in California and also teaches photography, said he’d been after the shot for a while and just got lucky with the female shark he and the rest of the crew he was with called “Squirrel.”
“It’s one of those shots, I’ve (been) close to (getting) it, but as soon as I took it, I came out of the water and showed my buddy who had been after that shot for years and he wasn’t too thrilled,” Rannachan said. “Usually a shot like this is just slightly off even with my camera shooting seven frames a second, but this picture was perfect.”
You can see more of Euan Rannachan’s shark imagery here.
