Nature, 2nd prize
Olivier Grunewald
01 January, 1994
The breeding process of the giant leatherback turtle: In June, at the peak of the season, up to 600 of the two-meter-long female turtles drag themselves onto the beach every night. First they spend a half hour systematically cleaning the spot chosen to lay some 100 eggs.
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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