Raoul Manten

The World...
through my Lens!



I love to travel and while doing so try to capture powerful images. With these photo's I would like to tell the stories behind diminishing tribal cultures and wildlife. And more important share the beauty of what the world has to offer!

On my blog you can read about the (sometimes unexpected) encounters I had during my trips around the world, with nature and the fascinating people living on the different continents.

My basic equipment is a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II digital SLR camera with a 70-200mm zoom objective, which I sometimes replace by a 24-70mm wide angle lens.

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    Daily Exodus of Bats leaving from the Dear Cave. This photo was taken in May 2011 in Gunung Mulu National Park (at the northern border of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia), where at the end of the day just before dusk millions of bats leave the limestone caves flying in snake-like wave formations to protect themselves from birds of pray. Mulu possesses some of the largest and most spectacular caves in the World. Twelve species of bats have been recorded within the Deer Cave, including the colony of Wrinkled-Lipped Bats estimated to number between 2.5 and 3.5 million individuals. While waiting at the Bat Observatory for the nightly flight of bats to begin you can watch the secret life of millions of bats on MULU BAT CAM a remote controlled, closed circuit TV system which takes you into the dark recesses of the cave to observe the bats ‘live,’ up close. Expectation builds as the sun moves towards the horizon and the Bat Hawks take up their roost on the cliff face, waiting for the first of the millions of bats appear. Each evening the bats gather at the cave entrance in large ring-shaped formations, circling higher and higher up the cliff face before moving out across the rainforest in spiraling ribbons.

    Daily Exodus of Bats leaving from the Dear Cave.

    This photo was taken in May 2011 in Gunung Mulu National Park (at the northern border of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia), where at the end of the day just before dusk millions of bats leave the limestone caves flying in snake-like wave formations to protect themselves from birds of pray.

    Mulu possesses some of the largest and most spectacular caves in the World. Twelve species of bats have been recorded within the Deer Cave, including the colony of Wrinkled-Lipped Bats estimated to number between 2.5 and 3.5 million individuals.

    While waiting at the Bat Observatory for the nightly flight of bats to begin you can watch the secret life of millions of bats on MULU BAT CAM a remote controlled, closed circuit TV system which takes you into the dark recesses of the cave to observe the bats ‘live,’ up close.

    Expectation builds as the sun moves towards the horizon and the Bat Hawks take up their roost on the cliff face, waiting for the first of the millions of bats appear. Each evening the bats gather at the cave entrance in large ring-shaped formations, circling higher and higher up the cliff face before moving out across the rainforest in spiraling ribbons.

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