Munro describes the underwater photographic experience as “unique on every occasion.” Even when given direction, subjects may respond in unpredictable ways: one may become liberated, another may seek total control. Some find themselves in a state akin to lucid dreaming. These encounters unfold in a medium that is both weightless and oppressive, nurturing and dangerous. Within this shifting realm, individuals sometimes embody psychological models. “One may become a Jungian archetype, another an existentialist,”

These psychological frameworks surface not necessarily by design but through the spontaneous interplay of human subject, water, and circumstance.​ Jungian archetypes are universal, innate, and timeless models of the human psyche that originate in the collective unconscious, while existentialism focuses on the individual's freedom, responsibility, and the creation of meaning in a world without inherent purpose. Jungian theory looks to universal structures to explain experience, whereas existentialism focuses on the subjective, temporal, and often anxious experience of the individual creating their own values and essence through their choices.

Munro notes that some viewers may see only beautiful, graceful bodies suspended in luminous water, without noticing the darker truths contained in the frame: dead coral, dangerous currents, or the imminent risks faced by the subject. For Munro, plurality is vital with harmonious contrast. and not desecration, the ultimate goal.