Who is the hardest to work with: this looming great hammerhead shark or one of Hollywood's gilded A-listers? Michael Muller would know. Best known for his photographs of film stars like Brad Pitt or Joaquin Phoenix, over the past decade he has trained his lens on nature's superstars: great white and hammerhead sharks, among others. This shot of a great hammerhead was taken last February off Bimini Island in the Bahamas. To create the atmospheric haze around the onrushing animal, Muller threw a handful of fine white sand in front of him and snapped the shark as it emerged through the "smoke". Muller uses a custom-built underwater strobe-light system to create lighting fit for a celebrity. His team includes local shark behaviourist Brocq Maxey, who coaxes the animals to show their best side (see inset, below).
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