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2007 Photographic Competition
Celebrating Ecology 

The overall winner received £750 and the overall runner-up received £250. The Student award winner received £100. Winning entries for each category are exhibited at the BES Annual Meeting, and published in the December 2007 BES Bulletin. 

We would like to thank the Oxford University Press for kindly sponsoring £30 worth of book vouchers to each winning entry that did not receive the overall, overall runner-up or student prize.


Overall Winner.

 

Dinner

 

Paradise flying tree snake, (Chrysopelea paradisi) eating a Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) in the Philippines.

It is an unusual colour variant of the paradise flying tree snake, Chrysopelea paradisi.  They can flatten their bodies by stretching their ribs to glide over horizontal distances of  up to 100m from the tree tops.

 

Dr Matthew J Doggett


Winner of the "Whole Organism and Populations" category

A Gannet colony (Morus bassanus) on Bass Rock, UK.

Ms Sylvia Diaz-Palacios -United Kingdom


The Runner Up entry for the "Whole Organism and Populations" category

Clam close up

 

The giant clam is the largest living bivalve mollusc. This is a close up of a small specimen showing the highly decorative mantle.  These clams are very sensitive to water currents and close their shell to a small crack upon the slightest disturbance making detailed observation challenging.  Photographed December 2002.  Digital adjustments: Crop, Resize, Sharpness, Saturation

 

Mr James Rosindell


Winner of the "Ecosystems and Communities" Category

Symbiosis

 

A false clown anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in its anemone with anemone crab (Neopetrolisthes ohshimai) on a coral reef in the Philippines.  Digital adjustments: Slight crop, minor colour work, dust particles removed.

Dr Matthew J Doggett



Runner up entry for the "Ecosystems and Communities" Category

Greenland summer

 

In the apparently barren mountains of east Greenland, glacier buttercup Ranunculus glacialis is one of the few plants able to exploit the 24 hour daylight of the brief summer.

Dr Andrea J Britton - United Kingdom



Winner of the "Student" Category

 

Bluegreen pullers sheltering in coral

 

 Bluegreen pullers Chromis viridis scrabbling for safe refuge in a table coral.  Photographed September 2006 at Abu Bulawa, south Red Sea. Digital adjustments: Crop, Resize, Sharpness, Colour balance, Saturation

Mr James Rosindell - United Kingdom


 Runner up entry for the the "Student" Category

Dandelion clock

Miss Elizabeth Masden - United Kingdom


Winner of the "Ecology in Action" category

School children sampling estuarine mud with sieves for crab and snails

 

Mrs Fiona Lea - United Kingdom



Runner up entry for the "Ecology in Action" category

Yearling blackbacked jackal (Canis mesomelas) watches as its faecal sample is collected for genetic analysis. Image taken as dusk on Namibia's desert coast. Digital adjustments: Cropped and levels adjusted

 

Miss Nicola Jenner - United Kingdom


Winner of the "Ecology and Society" Category and Overall Runner up

Nature’s Return 

Amongst the ruins of Buddhist temples in Ayutthya, Thailand, nature swallows up the remnants of a fallen civilisation. Digital adjustments: Full frame, minor colour work.

Dr Matthew J Doggett - United Kingdom


Runner up entry for the "Ecology and Society" category

Sea lion vagabonds

The species, Zalophus californianus, adapting to the stereotypic sleeping habits of a human tramp! (taken on a Ricoh Caplio R6 camera, at the main shipping port of Baltra Island, one of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador).

Dr Jacqueline Cole


 

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