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2011 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 2011 BES Bulletin.
We would also like to thank the Oxford University Press for kindly sponsoring £40 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 "Ecology and Society" category
Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and people observing by snorkeling in Akumal,
Mexico which is an area for investigation, conservation and dedicated to create
awareness among people in order to protect our natural resources and the natural
heritage.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Magana-Roderiguez
Overall Runner Up and Winner of the "Student" category
Barn owl (Tyto alba) hunting on winter sky, North Yorkshire, UK
Photo Credit: Silviu Petrovan
Runner Up of the "Student" category
A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) suns itself on the Galapagos
Island of Fernandina.
Photo Credit: Paddy Brock
Runner Up of the "Ecology & Society" category
Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) skin, seemingly abandoned at
Qeqertarsuaq, western Greenland. Seals are the main target of the country's
many hunters. The major threat to harp seals may be climate change,
however, because of disappearance of ice sheets on which they have their pups.
Photo Credit: Adam Seward
Winner of the "Ecosystems & Communities" category
A male lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) on its coral garden territory
among Dendronephthya sp. soft corals and Acropora sp. hard corals.
Photograph taken on the wreck of the "Dunraven" in the Northern Red Sea using a
Canon Ixus 90 in waterproof housing, Sea and Sea YS-110alpha Strobe and Inon
"fisheye" wide angle lens.
Photo Credit: Simon Greenstreet
Runner Up of the "Ecosystems & Communities" category
While working in Western Australia (on a BES-funded project) I was intrigued by
the many varied birds and insects visiting one of the native Hakeas (H. scopiaria).
While attempting to take pictures of the honeyeaters on one particular bush, I
noticed this large Australian hornet (Abispa ephippium) and happened to take one
image at exactly the same time that one of the ants, also feeding on the plentiful
nectar decided to defend its food supply and attack its much larger relative.
Photo Credit: Mick Hanley
Winner of the "Ecology in Action" category
Surveying grasslands in Molesworth Station, New Zealand. The photograph was taken using the High Dynamic Range (HDR), which is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Magana-Roderiguez
Runner Up of the "Ecology in Action" category
Living near a small peri-urban nature reserve with ponds where our amphibian friends come to breed in early spring, my wife Eva November and I take the responsibility to collect and translocate toads and salamanders that use a pedestrian tunnel under a railway as part of their migratory route to prevent them from being squashed by cyclists in the morning. In a blue tub, the animals seem to be temporarily stuck on another planet. Eva and I contributed equally to this picture. Species in this picture: Bufo bufo, Rana spp. Mesotriton alpestris and Triturus vulgaris.
Photo Credit: Raf Aerts
Winner of the "Whole Organisms & Populations" category
Southern stingray (Dasyatis americana). Since their prey is often buried in the sand, they un-bury it by forcing streams of water out their mouth or flapping their fins over the sand.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Magana-Roderiguez
Runner Up of the "Whole Organisms & Populations" category
Description The BES-funded project that took me to Western Australia last July was concerned with the foraging behaviour of the resident white-cheeked honeyeater (Phylidonyris nigra). In addition to foraging on the large nectar-rich inflorescences of Banaksia hookeriana, these highly territorial birds spent a lot of time defending plants in their patch against the many transitory honeyeater species. This bird had just chased off a Singing Honeyeater and was bristling to take on any other would-be nectar usurpers.
Photo Credit: Mick Hanley
