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October 2007: New success at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
I am really excited that my image “Penguin in a sandstorm” has been awarded a “highly commended” with the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007
competition. This year, the world’s most prestigious competition received more than 32’000 entries from all over the world. After my two category winners with the same
competition in 2005, I consider this as good luck again and a great reward for my work. I am looking forward to the award ceremony in London, to meet old and new friends and to enjoy
the atmosphere in the beautiful Natural History Museum in London. The winning images are published on this website:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/
and the exhibition will tour the world as usual.
August 2007: Festival photo and exposition at Montier-en-Der, France
The organizers of the biggest French nature photography festival in Montier-en-Der have chosen my image “Taking care of the kids”
as the festival photo for their festival poster, the flyer and main image on their website. Many thanks to them for this honour.
Also, Silvia and me are invited as honorary guests and will present a large format exhibition during this festival which will be held from
November 16th till 18th, 2007 in Montier-en-Der, France. It would be a pleasure to meet you there. Montier is a nice venue,
you’ll have a good chance to see wild cranes during your stay. To find out more about the festival please have a look
here: http://www.festiphoto-montier.org/
April 2007: Article on CPN
Canon Professional Network (CPN) have published an article about me with the title “Life in a Cold Climate” in their “Behind the lens” section.
The article shows some of my prize winning images and concentrates on recent work I have done in Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and Spitsbergen. I am really glad about the chance
to publish with CPN as not many nature photographers have been represented with their site and the predecessor.
You’ll find the article here: http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/btl/eisenhawer.do
March 2007: Polar bear trip
What a unique experience. After all the attention Knut is receiving these days, mostly experienced by people sitting in their armchairs watching television,
I was thrilled to have a chance to observe young polar bears emerging from their dens in their natural environment. There were some mothers with cubs on their way to the coast trying
to catch some seals after loosing a lot of weight during the long time in the den without food and suckling the cubs. It is a unique feeling to sit in the snow and all there is between
you and a 200 kg polar bear is your tripod and the camera. This experience involved being confined to a small hut for days waiting for the blizzard to stop, getting my cheeks and my
fingers frozen at –42°C (-46F), wind chill included, and occupying a snow hare’s home for the night. Many thanks to the guides. It was amazing how they were able to
track the bears in really difficult conditions. I hope to have another chance to see these beautiful animals again. The prospect of loosing them forever because of the disappearance
of the polar ice at least partially due to the way we treat the earth just makes me sick.
February 2007: GDT
The Society of German Nature Photographers (GDT) elected me into their directory board. GDT is the biggest society for nature photographers in Europe, presently counting
more than 800 members. GDT promotes non-manipulated nature photography in order to address the need of protection of nature to a large public. I am glad about the appointment and hope
that I will be able to assist the Society to maintain and develop the high ethical and artistic standards and to be open to future developments. The English version of the GDT website
can be found here: http://www.gdtfoto.de/content.php?start=ok&s_res=1280&lang=en
January 2007: 12 week Antarctica, Patagonia and Falkland Islands trip
I am back from a 12 week trip to Antarctica, Patagonia and the Falklands Islands. This trip was truly amazing. I sweated with emperor penguins, saw the most
amazing mountains (and that is saying something coming from someone living in Switzerland), got close with fighting elephant seals, had dirt picked of my shoes by king penguins, took a
shower with the rockhoppers and was able to enjoy the grace of the black-browed albatrosses very close (one even touched me flying by, he had obviously miscalculated the distance).
My tent almost didn’t survive the trip, I had to put it down in a gale one night at 4 a.m. and spent the rest of the night under some rocks. Right now I am preparing the images,
so you should be able to see the results quite soon.
November 2006: Geo cover contest
Geo has chosen my image “Red crowned Crane in the Fog” as the only wildlife image among the 15 best received images for their coverpage contest for an issue on Japan.
The 15 images chosen can be found here: http://www.geo.de/GEO/fotografie/fotoshows/52338.html?t=img_overview
October 2006: Two awards at European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
The European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2006, organized by the Society of German Nature Photographers, awarded two of my images.
My “Red crowned crane in the fog” was the runner-up in the birds category and the picture of a baby elephant “First river crossing?!” received a highly commended
in the mammals category. The images feature in several newspapers and magazines in Berlin right now, since Berlin hosts the competition exhibition which will tour through various countries.
The images of the competition can be found here: http://gdtfoto.de/content.php?siteloc=257
June 2006: BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year entry form cover
Martin's image of whooper swans has been chosen for the front cover of the
2006 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition's entry form.
November 2005: Martin Eisenhawer on National Geographic News and BBC News
One of the two BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning images
has been published by the online version of National Geographic
News under http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/photogalleries/best_animal_photos/photo3.html
and by the BBC News under http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4355628.stm
October 2005: Big honor, Two category winners at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
Two of my images are category winners in the BBC Wildlife Photographer
of the Year 2005 contest. This is the world's most prestigious
competition for nature photography The winning photographs were
chosen among more than 15'000 entries from over 60 countries and
tour the world in an exhibition, which visits more than 30 countries,
including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan and the USA.
I won the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife and the
Animals in Their Environment award. I am extremely honoured to
have won these two categories as my main motivation for nature
photography comes from the wish to contribute to the conservation
of our endangered wildlife and habitats and I also believe that
nature photographs showing animals in their natural habitat can
pay a very efficient contribution to this goal. For more information
on the competition, see:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/
The Darwin Centre of the Natural History Museum in London invited
me for a discussion about photography, which will be broadcasted
live on the internet on Thursday, October 20th under:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/darwin-centre-live/index.html
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