British Photography Awards 2022 – Photographer of the Year - Water Life

Montphoto 2022 – Honourable Mention – Plant Life

The Margined Ramshorn pond snail, Planorbis planorbis, carries a galaxy of photosynthetic algae like Chlamydomonas living within a slimy biofilm covering the snail’s shell. The Chlorophyll within the algae fluoresces red when illuminated by Ultraviolet light. The snail’s intestines are contrasted in shades of midnight blue.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 - Highly Commended – Plant Life

Olympus Image of the Year Award 2021 / 22 – Regional Winner

Montphoto 2022 – Honourable Mention – Art in Nature

Star-shaped defensive hairs covering the surface of a Deutzia scabra leaf are silhouetted against the leaf’s chlorophyll-packed cells. When exposed to invisible Ultraviolet light (UV is visible to insects etc.), plant Chlorophyll fluoresces bright red. All green plants fluoresce red while photosynthesising, but its presence is too faint to be seen in broad daylight.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 - Winner Behaviour Other Animals

EUROPEAN Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 Public award - Best of Show

A critically endangered Morelet’s tree frog, Agalychnis moreletii, battles for its life with a cat-eyed snake (species unknown).

Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 – Finalist Natural Design

A dissected tracheal tree from a silk moth caterpillar, Bombyx mandarina.

WILDLIFE Photographer of the Year 2008 - One Earth Award Winner

EUROPEAN Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 - Title Winner

An endangered Gabon Black Colobus monkey, Colobus satanas anthacinus, having its fur burned off before being sold at the food market in central West Africa.

Libreville, Gabon

Anchors

This is a microscope slide preparation of the skin of a sea cucumber, Synapta sp, showing its remarkable spicules in the shape of anchors and perforated plates.

Poppies

Long-headed poppies, Papaver dubium, growing on wasteland next to a carpark. 

International Photography Awards 2007 - Winner Best of Show Award 

A young common frog, Rana temporaria, attempts to swallow an incongruously large earthworm, the Tiger or Brandling Earthworm, Eisenia foetida.

Circular Saw

The “circular-saw-like” structure on the head of the tapeworm Taenia pisiformis latches onto the intestinal lining of the brown hare Lepus europaeus.