Flamingo of Laguna Chaxa. Wildlife photograph by Asavari Mehta, finalist in the Shoot The Frame Wildlife photography award, July 2020

Finalist Wildlife · July 2020

Flamingo of Laguna Chaxa

We spend eight hours watching these magnificent birds delicately sieve the salt lakes with their giant beaks. They were so gentle and still that you could see almost 100% complete reflections of them in the water as they went about their day.