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Schooling rays image wins CIWEM award

The Telegraph has reported that an arial image of an amazing group of Munkiana Devil Rays has won the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010. They were photographed in Baja California Sur, Mexico, by German conservation photographer Florian Schulz. He described how he was able to capture his jaw-dropping image named Flight of the Rays:

“During an aerial expedition I came across something I had never seen before. Not even my pilot, who has surveyed this area for 20 years, had seen anything like it. As we got closer we started to discover its nature: an unprecedented congregation of rays. The group was as thick as it was wide, all heading towards the same direction. I have asked around why this took place but no one has been able to explain it to me.”