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Christine Shepard

christine_shepard Christine Shepard Photography www.christineshepard.comChristine Shepard is a professional photographer, cinematographer, and entrepreneur based in Kona, Hawaii. She’s been named a finalist in BBC’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year and a Highly Honored Winner in Nature’s Best Photography Competition. Christine’s work has been widely published in magazines including National Geographic, Popular Science, and Scientific American, and her personal spotlight stories have been featured on the Discovery Channel and Oprah’s O Magazine.

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A unique underwater shark portrait shows a great hammerhead shark quickly turning, twisting its body into a U shape, its eye close to the camera.

Hammerhead Gaze

By Christine Shepard

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December 13, 2017

This apex predator's widely set eyes give it much better binocular vision than most sharks—just one of several reasons why hammerheads are such successful hunters.