Borneo 2014

Friday the 14^th March marked my fifth return from a trip to Borneo. The aim of this trip was exploration of mountain rainforests that I consider as one of the most beautiful biotopes in the world. One week was spent on an island full of monitor lizards. And the remaining 8 days, in the heart of the highest mountain of Borneo Mount Kinabalu, which is home to endless collections of flora and fauna that is more endemic than diverse. Many plants and animals are impossible to see in the wild anywhere else in the world and are unique to this area. In order to have a better understanding of the entire national park, we visited three main entrance points – Poring (500 mnm), Kinabalu Hedquarters (1500 mnm) and Mesilau (2000 mnm).

Each region represents a totally different biotope type and I endeavoured to capture the nuances in my photos. As a result, the landscape photographs from this trip prevail over animal portraits and I truly hope that they will find their admirers. The first photos are already in the photo gallery to which more and more will be added. I’m glad, that my photos from Borneo currently have over 1.5 million views.

Petr Bambousek

I am a professional wildlife photographer who over the past 15 years undertook more than 40 photo expeditions to tropical rainforests across the world. You may have seen my photos in various exhibitions, on the Internet and many Czech and foreign magazines and books. A number of my photographs were awarded at local and overseas competitions such as the Czech Press Photo, Nature's Best Photography, Bird Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards, Big Picture Awards, Nactus Awards or the most acclaimed one - the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. At this particular competition, my photographs were not only in the Final but also, one of my finalist images became a central promotional piece of the whole 2015 WPY travelling exhibition. If you enjoy my work, don’t forget to visit my Photogallery and connect to my Facebook profile.