Posted on 10/26/2009 3:37:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono
"The Storybook Wolf"
This nighttime shot of a wolf leaping into a farm in northern Spain has been named overall winner of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition.
The picture, by Spanish photographer Josi Luis Rodrmguez, was selected from more than 43,000 entries. Iberian wolves--a subspecies of the gray wolf--are extremely wary of humans after centuries of persecution. Rodrmguez captured the photograph using motion sensors and an infrared barrier to operate the camera.
"This wolf jumping over the farmer's enclosure with the supposed intent of killing his livestock speaks for itself--thousands of years of history are frozen in this masterfully executed moment," competition judge and nature photographer Jim Brandenburg said in a statement.
The winning image was announced at London's Natural History Museum, which jointly owns the annual photo competition with BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Pet cat Ryska showed who's boss despite being outsized by several red foxes that came snooping around photographer Igor Shpilenok's ranger cabin in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. Her defiance helped win Shpilenok a Wildlife Photographer of the Year honor in London on October 22, 2009.
She soon earned respect from them--and from me--living up to her name, which means 'little lynx' in Russian, said Shpilenok, who took Ryska along for company during his five-month stay in the vast Kronotsky Nature Reserve.
Winner: Animal Behavior, Mammals "Boto Water Polo"
A pair of Amazon dolphins use a floating seed as an opportunity for a "ball game" in a tributary of the Rio Negro, Brazil--helping U.S. photographer Kevin Schafer win top honors in the mammal-behavior category of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest on October 22, 2009.
Winner: Wild Places
"Big Fjord, Little Auks"
A flock of little auks give a sense of scale to the glacial landscape of northeast Greenland, where freshly calved icebergs loom from the mist.
Winner: Young Overall Winner "Clash of the Yellowhammers"
Fergus Gill of the United Kingdom captured the split-second drama of two male yellowhammers fighting over a winter meal of oats to snare top honors in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition's 17-and-under division on October 22, 2009. Seventeen-year-old Gill started planning for his photo in the summer, when he collected sheaves of oats to attract seed-eating yellowhammers to his garden the following February. Once the snows came, Gill spent many hours waiting inside a purpose-built hideout.
Those white Bengal pics in the Daily Mail a month or so ago were awesome.
Good job.
Nice doggie,.....
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You are jesting I hope, these are not photoshopped.
These are very good photographs captured by very patient photographers. The article does not give the identification of the camera used by any of these winners. It would have been nice to know.
These pics are not that good - not even sure if any are in focus.
How could the wolf picture win? He didn’t even take it! Anyone can set up a camera with a remote sensor. Besides, what right does he have to mess with the wolf’s dinner? I bet the wolf was torqued when the flash went off.
What’s an f-stop?
Nice!!
DUI CF200.
I dunno what that means........
Verrrrrrrrrrrry cool!
SWEET SHOT!
Verrrry nice!!!!
It’s the dry suit I use.
Glad you wear one...
I used to surf SoCal...and never went out without a full wetsuit.
WAY...colder where you were.....
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