BES Facebook group2007 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
