News 2008

GEOinternational 06/09

  24.05.2009 In issue 06/09 GEOinternational published Solvin’s story on the Namib Desert.


eye to eye

09.11.2008 Fresh eye to eye collection online. [de] Neue Auge in Auge Kollektion online.


European Mole

08.10.2008 Images from the European Mole (Talpa europaea) ([de] Maulwurf ) are now available.


GEO special (Nr. 5/2008)

28.09.2008 GEO special (Nr. 5/2008) features Solvin’s article about The windswept sand dunes of the Namib Desert and the Gobabab Research Station.


Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

04.08.2008 Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) images are now available for imediate high res download in the archive.


WILD WONDERS of EUROPE

01.08.2008 An interview with Solvin including a portfolio is presented at WILD WONDERS of EUROPE: Europe’s largest-ever photography project. It is about revealing the amazing natural treasures of our continent.


National Geographic Magazine (07/08)

05.07.2008 Solvin Zankl’s image of an Allen Cays iguana (Cyclura cychlura inornata) is featured in the latest installment of “Wildlife as Canon Sees It“. The ad appears in the July 2008 issue of National Geographic Magazine.


Tisza blooming (Tiszavirágzás)

04.07.2008 Solvin Zankl just returned from a one month trip to Hungary’s Tisza River. He documented the Tisza blooming (Tiszavirágzás). It is when millions of long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) are rising in huge clouds, reproduce, and perish, all in just a few hours.


GEOlino (05/08)

  29.04.2008 A coat in yellow and pink or rather wearing red and violett? All is permitted that pleases – the nudibranchs. The colourful sea slug pictures by Solvin Zankl are combined into a poster by GEOlino (Issue No. 5/2008) to show the unbelievable variety in these marine animals.


Deep sea plankton wins at POYi

20.03.2008  Solvin won an award in the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition. The photo of a deep-water decapod Sergestes lava resived a ‘Award of Excellence’ in the ‘SCIENCE/NATURAL HISTORY’ category. The image is part of a story on deep sea plankton for GEO.


Best GEO-Photo of the Year 2007

  10.01.2008 Solvin’s picture of a lady beetle on a dandelion clock is the winning image in a reader voting on www.geo.de. It was rated to be the best GEO-Photo of the Year 2007 – the previous vote in 2001 was also won by Solvin with his photo of a black macaque looking into a [...]