BES Facebook group2006 Photographic Competition
Celebrating Ecology, Oxford University, UK
The overall winner received £750 and the overall runner-up received £250. The Student award winner received £100. Winning entries for each category were exhibited at the BES Annual Meeting in Oxford, and published in the December 2006 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 and Winner of the "Whole Organism and Populations" category
"Image of Grey plover aggressively defending its high tide roost site against hovering Turnstones. There are a limited number of good places to sit out the period when the tide covers its estuarine feeding grounds and the plover was determined not to yield".
Dr. M Dodd - United Kingdom
The Runner Up entry for the "Whole Organism and Populations" category
"White-tailed sea-eagle Halialaeetus albicilla fishing on the Norwegian coast."
Dr A Britton - United Kingdom
Winner of the "Ecosystems and Communities" Category
Mr. P. Kardol - Netherlands
Runner up entry for the "Ecosystems and Communities" Category
"Image of Sanderling feeding on the community of invertebrate life which is stimulated into activity buy the onrushing tide. The large wave in the background nearly washed me and the camera away"
Dr M Dodd - United Kingdom
Winner of the "Student" Category
"Hiding" - (Zurich, 01/10/05)
Mr G. Polgar - Italy
Runner up entry for the the "Student" Category
Mrs T. Dallas - United Kingdom
Winner of the "Ecology in Action" category
"Undergraduates using a Beach Seine net to sample estuarine fish populations at Exmouth in Dorset.
Nikon D100, 24-85mm F/2.8-4 D.
Dr D. Bird - United Kingdom
Runner up entry for the "Ecology in Action" category
"SCUBA divers sit on a hole cut through the sea ice in preparation for a dive to photograph and document inshore sea-bed communities. The photograph was taken at the British Antartic Survey, Rothera research station, Adelaide Island around 11am in the middle of winter. At this time of year the sun is permanently below the horizon, allowing only a few hours to carry out field research operations.
Dr. H. Campbell - United Kingdom
Winner of the "Ecology and Society" Category and Overall Runner up
"Reef, Low Tide" - (Bunaken, North Sulawesi. 20/09/05)
Mr G. Polgar - Italy
Runner up entry for the "Ecology and Society" category
"A Cuban fisherman with a turtle caught as a by-catch in his fishing nets in a marine conservation area. The turtle was later released. "
Nikon D100, 24-85mm F/2.84 D lens, with fill-in flash.
Dr. D. Bird
