1995 Photo Contest, Nature, 2nd prize
Photographer

Olivier Grunewald

01 January, 1994

The breeding process of the giant leatherback turtle: First the female spends a half hour systematically cleaning the spot chosen to lay some 100 eggs. She deposits the eggs in a deep nest, which is carefully covered up before they return to the ocean.

About the photographer

Olivier Grunewald

Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959. He started photographing birds at the age of 14. After studying commercial advertising photography at the Gobelins school of images, ...

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