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Discover nature like you've never seen it before at the newly redesigned exhibition where 100 powerful photographs tell the story of a planet under pressure.
14 October 2022 - 2 July 2023
Clay Bolt (USA) creates a composition of a bee framed by the Golden Gate Bridge.
Clay balanced on a slippery slope, holding his camera overhead. Pre focusing and shooting without looking through the viewfinder, he eventually got the shot he wanted with this close-up wide-angle of the queen Vosnesensky bumblebee perfectly framed by the Golden Gate bridge.
One of about 46 bumblebee species in North America, the Vosnesensky bumblebee is an important pollinator of native flowers. It helps to preserve natural ecosystems, thriving where there is little pesticide use.
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Discover nature like you've never seen it before at the newly redesigned exhibition where 100 powerful photographs tell the story of a planet under pressure.
14 October 2022 - 2 July 2023
USA
Clay is a natural history and conservation photographer specialising in the world's smaller creatures. He is a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Fellow of The Linnean Society and previous president of the North American Nature Photography Association. In 2019, Clay became the first photographer to photograph a living Wallace's giant bee - the world's largest bee species - as part of a four-person exploration team to rediscover the species in the Indonesian islands of North Maluku.
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