Page 117 - BBC Wildlife Volume 36 #10

OURWILD WORLD

1 Rays of light
Manta rays come
together to mate of the
coast of the Socorro
Islands in Mexico.For this
photo,I used a fisheye
lens and twin underwater
strobes to light the ray
from underneath.
Stephen Laycock,
Blackrod, UK

2 Making eye contact
I was amazed by the
compound eyes of this
huge longhorn beetle
photographed on a dead
Moringa tree inWest
Bengal.I used a macro
extension tube and ring
flash to capture the detail.
Arunava Dey,
Baharampur, India

3 Dinner date
1 We were thrilled to see

this male hoopoe feeding
2 3 his mate as she incubated
their eggs in the
Kiskunsági National Park
in Hungary last year.We
watched him fly back and
forth with invertebrates.
Fion Wong,
Bellevue, USA

4 Fly-by
I was very pleased to
capture this northern
gannet carrying nesting
material at Yorkshire’s
Bempton Clifs. As it was
4 5 windy, these striking

birds flew at eye level.
Stan Maddams,
Bournemouth, UK

5 Poised for action
I visitedAmboli,India,on a
macro photography tour.
Our guide spotted this
Malabar pit viper coiled
around a dead branch
and,using a low exposure,
I photographed it.
Keyur Nandaniya,
Delhi, India

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