When Kris Williams headed down to the beach in Anglesey, an island off the north coast of Wales, early in July, he planned on capturing a stunning natural phenomenon that he’d seen before. “I’ve been fortunate enough to witness the bioluminescence on the Welsh coast many times over the past five years, both in North and South Wales,” he told Wales Online. “You can scoop the water up in your hands and see the plankton covering your fingers like tiny stars, or swim in the water and watch as the waves light up where you swim through them.”
If you have been fortunate enough to have seen bioluminescence with your own eyes, you know how amazing it can be. It’s a strange phenomenon. Tiny bioluminescent plankton gives off bursts of bright light when they’re disturbed, whether it’s by a swimming, a tossed rock, or a breaking wave. Williams, a landscape and nightscape photographer, was the perfect person to document the phenomenon.
