Wildlife Photo competition
Each year the British Museum presented the award to the best wildlife photographers. This year, this prestigious competition has sent more than 43,000 works from all over the world. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the most successful of them.This year, the winner was the photographer Greg du Toit with a unique frame elephant at the watering.
The winner in the category "Creativity" with a photo of the Snow monkeys during a snowfall in an amazing park monkeys Jigokudani, Japan
The applicant in the category of "natural habitat". The work of Michael Nichols - a picture of lions from the Serengeti.
The winner in the category of "natural habitat". Polar bear in the icy water.
A special prize was awarded to this photo of an owl in British Columbia.
Special prize for a picture of endangered species. These shots cost the Japanese photographer many years of work, 74 days standby and lost health! Siberian Tiger in the nature of the Russian Far East.
Bidder. Crocodile caught the green turtle in the Corcovado National Park on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Bidder. Vulture in the Kalahari National Park.
The winner in the category of "The Birds". He took a picture of terns, trapped in a spider web in the Seychelles. Even if she was going, silk and feathers clog it can not fly. Only human intervention saved the bird.
A family of gorillas.
A special prize was awarded to photograph a fox. Catch her in the jump for the mouse was the most difficult part.
2nd place in the category "Mammals". Endangered crested macaques are only found on the island of Sulawesi.
Crow on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
This image won in the category of photojournalism. Despite the international ban in 1989 on the killing of elephants, they continue to kill: from the world's population of 400 million - 20-30 thousand copies a year. The main culprit of the murder referred to as China - where the main demand for tusks. Since the ban on killing elephants in 23 years, they killed at least 400 thousand annual turnover of elephant tusks up to 500 million dollars.
The winner in the category "Mammals". Photographer caught the moment showdown between a female and a male jaguar.
The winner in the category "Cold-blooded animals." The beaches of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico are traditional nesting place for the endangered green turtle.
The winner in the category of young photographers. Mama with baby crocodile on her head.
The winner in the category "Landscapes" was our great wildlife photographer Sergey Gorshkov with a photo of the eruption of a volcano in Kamchatka Flat Tolbachic.
