Award-winning photos from The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest
20 Oct 2013 5:11 PM IST20 Oct 2013 5:11 PM IST
Award-winning photos from The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest
A 14-year-old Indian boy, who camped out overnight on the banks of the Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh to click the rare shot of a crocodile, has bagged this year’s ‘Young Wildlife PhoÂtoÂÂgÂrapher of the Year Award’. Udayan Rao Pawar shot the fresh- Brent Stirton (South Africa) won the 'Wildlife Photojournalist Award' with this shot. Since the ban on the international commercial trade in ivory in 1989, hundreds of thousands of elephants have been slaughtered and many millions of dollars’ worth
- This click by Mike Veitch (Canada) won the award for 'World in Our Hands'. Mike took this image of a sub-adult (about six metres long) in Cenderawasih Bay, Papua, Indonesia. ‘I wanted to show the whale shark actively sucking on the net – a learned
- This photo clicked by Toshiji Fukuda (Japan) won 'Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Species'. This picture of the endangered Amur or Siberian tiger is one of the very few taken in the wild without the use of a camera trap. It is also almost
- This flying owl image earned Connor Stefanison (Canada) the 'Eric Hosking Portfolio Award'. Connor’s photography draws on the wilderness skills he acquired over a childhood spent largely outdoors. This female barred owl had a territory near his home
- This image captured by Theo Bosboom (The Netherlands) won the Runner-up award for 'Creative Visions'. Kneeling in waders and holding his camera under water, Bosboom shot looking up through the effervescent surface below the fall, using the bubbles
- This image captured by Jasper Doest (The Netherlands) won the award for 'Creative Visions'. When photographing the famous Japanese macaques around the hot springs of Jigokudani, central Japan, Jasper had become fascinated by the surreal effects
- Another brilliant picture here. Richard Packwood (United Kingdom) won the award with this for 'Nature in Black and White'. The remains of trees half-submerged in Lake Kariba, the world’s largest (by volume) artificial lake, stand sentry around a
- This candid shot by Pål Hermansen (Norway) won the award for 'Urban Wildlife'. Though the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s, cars abandoned in Båstnäs car graveyard in Värmland, Sweden are worthless now to humans and they have been reborn as habitats for all
- Sergey Gorshkov (Russia) won the award for '2013: Wildscapes' with the picture shown here. Says Sergey, ‘I have been to many places and I have seen many extraordinary things, but witnessing the Plosky Tolbachik eruption deeply impressed me.’ Plosky
- Brian Skerry (USA) won the award for 'Underwater Worlds' with this photograph. It looks like some kind of inflatable pool toy, but what this turtle is munching on is, in fact, a pyrosome: a free-floating colony of hundreds of thousands of tiny
- This one shot by Michael 'Nick' Nichols (USA) won the award for 'Botanical Realms'. Naming it as The President's crown, Nick’s goal was to create an image that would pay homage to the grandeur of the President. What Nick aimed to do was show this
- This image captured by Paul Souders (USA) won the title for 'Animals in their Environment'. The fact that most images of polar bears show them on land or ice says more about the practical difficulties faced by humans than it does about the bears’
- This image shot by Joe McDonald (USA) won the award for 'Behaviour: Mammals'. ‘I couldn’t believe the energy and intensity of those three seconds,’ says Joe about the rare image. Joe captured the shot after waiting for several hours in the hot sun,
- This image captured by Alejandro Prieto (Mexico) was commended by jury under the section 'Behaviour: Cold-Blooded Animals'. Hear it from the photographer himself who recalls the moment: "I willed the crocodile to be still for a moment, while I
- Captured by Luis Javier Sandoval (Mexico), this click won the award under 'Behaviour: Cold-Blooded Animals'. The beaches of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico are traditional nesting sites for the endangered green turtle. 'The turtles are so used to
- This image has won the award under section 'Behaviour: Birds'. Noddies, a type of birds, regularly fly into the webs. Even if they struggle free, the silk clogs up their feathers so they can’t fly. This noddy was exhausted, says the man behind the
- The overall winner of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Greg du Toit (South Africa) for his photo ‘Essence of Elephants’. Toit says, ‘I’ve wanted to create an image that captures their special energy and the state of
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A 14-year-old Indian boy, who camped out overnight on the banks of the Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh to click the rare shot of a crocodile, has bagged this year’s ‘Young Wildlife PhoÂtoÂÂgÂrapher of the Year Award’. Udayan Rao Pawar shot the fresh
Award-winning photos from The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest
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