Running Away The horned vipers Cerastes gasperettii are very common and dreaded in Kuwait, especially where I work, at a TV and Radio Transmitter Station in the middle of the desert. It is a place full of scorpions and snakes. I found this small viper in my break ti- me under a piece of wood […]
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Flying Ant One day, as I was wandering through a field to photograph the ‘dandelions’, a gust of wind blew away the seeds of the inflo- rescence and from one of them I saw a tiny ant hanging. Ob- viously I didn’t have time to film it. But that image stuck with me so much
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Mayfly In Hungary, Palingenia longicauda, a large, 12 cm long insect, is the ephemera of the river Tisza. Every year, between May and June, it causes a phenomenon known as May Flight, or Tisza Flowering. After the hatching of the larvae, millions of adult ma- le ephemerals barely a few hours old fly over the
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Antler Forest It was a cold winter evening and on the hill in Börzsöny, Hun- gary, the temperature had dropped to just a few degrees. A De- cember moth (Poecilocampa Populi) suddenly fluttered past me, then landed near my equipment, on top of antler-shaped fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon). With every flap of the moth’s wings I
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Sule One evening over dinner with photographer friends we were talking about taking a trip. Some of them had al- ready been to the Shetland Islands and their stories had fascinated me so much that we decided to go back to- gether. So in June we organised the trip. It was an unfor- gettable experience.
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Domination Lappet Faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) attacking one of the White Backed Vultures (Gyps africanus), there were more than 15 White Backed Vultures eating a dead animal when this Lappet Faced Vulture came, attacked them all and claimed the dead animal for himself! His size was such that everyone was afraid of him!
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Pipistrello dal Nettare I took this photo of an Orange Nectar Bat (Glossophaga soricina) in Costa Rica. For the lighting I used three fla- shes to stop the movement of the animal as it flew over the banana flower in the middle of the night to suck the nectar. It is a small bat of
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Parenting Goals With its height of 115 centimetres, the emperor pen- guin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest out of the 18 existing penguin species. It is the undisputed symbol of Antarctica, where it lives by enduring extremely cold temperatures of up to -60°C. However, climate change and the presence of man are now a threat
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Unreal Atmosphere The “Magadi” lake, which means “soda” in Swahili, owes its name to a particularly high concentration of caustic soda, na- turally produced by the transformation of sediments in contact with run-off water and the lava beneath the surface. In this salty water, millions of lesser flamingos come to feed on mi- croalgae, shrimp,
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Terns & Terns Greater crested terns (Thalasseus bergii) are one of the migra- tory birds that move from Sri Lanka to the remote islands of the Gulf of Mannar every year. What they do is an extreme journey, made difficult by the terrible heat and humidity, in pla- ces without shelter. I wanted to document
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