My Kingdom During the mating season, male California sea lions become territorial, and protect their harem, which can be up to 30 females in number. Male California sea lions are distinct from females, marked by their larger size, thick necks, and silver cranial sagittal crest. Here, this male is ‘crowned’ by female sea lions of […]
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Falling into Infinity The beauty of fireflies at night in a forest is a unique experience. You can feel amazed or nostalgic and melancholic, thinking a- bout how ephemeral and fragile this beauty is. You can feel a sense of peace and tranquility, but also a slight restlessness in the face of the unknown that
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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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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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Dopo La Tempesta In South Tyrol, there are sometimes grouse that lose their shy- ness towards humans during the courtship period. Science has not yet found an explanation for this phenomenon. Of course, these types of grouse offer photographers great creative op- portunities, otherwise impossible with this species. It was early May when a blizzard
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The Fire of Creation Rather than focus on the negative aspects of rhino poaching, I wanted to create an image that conveyed a sense of hope, a new beginning. Botswana’s rhino conservation programme was initially successful but Covid effectively shut down the tourism industry for two years. With fewer eyes on the ground, it was
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The World Is Going Upside Estimates suggest that less than 100,000 Bornean orangutans survive today in the last intact forests of the large Indonesian island. And it is precisely deforestation that poses the greatest threat to this species’ survival. But the dangers do not only come from habitat destruction. In the most remote areas poaching
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The night of the lynx I have been working on the lynx in Sweden for about five years. It has been a long journey, from my first shot of a lynx, to the award-winning photo. It was a difficult work, with countless ups and downs. The photo shows a lynx on a tree trunk at
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