We were unbelievably lucky to witness bioluminescent plankton washing up on the shore outside our villa in the Maldives last night. It was a difficult photograph to take, in the pitch black with an unfamiliar camera, but this should give you an idea of what we saw - tiny glowing blue dots, twinkling in the dark as they washed up on the beach.

It's an incredibly rare phenomenon caused by plankton called dinoflagellates that glow in the dark, and look especially funny when stuck to the back of a crab zipping up and down the beach. I'd read about bioluminescence before, but never dreamed I'd see it in the flesh.

These photographs were taken with the Fujifilm X-T5 and the Fujinon XF 18mm f1.4 R LM WR.

Equipment used

Camera

Fujifilm X-T5

Lens

Fujinon XF 18mm f1.4 R LM WR

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I'm Alex Nichol. I'm an amateur photographer from the North of England. For me, photography is a way to share what I love most about the world. That includes everything, from family and friends, to wild animals and breathtaking places... or maybe just how the sun twinkles on a weed in my back garden. It's all fair game.

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