2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year

[SB]

October 22nd, 2009, 6:29 pm

The 2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year winner was announced today with the winning entry being...


José Luis Rodríguez (Spain)

There were other catagories in which people won in. The 11-14 year old catagory winning photograph was:


Sam Rowley (United Kingdom)

Nature in Black and White category winner:


Danny Green (United Kingdom)

Animal Behaviour; All Other Animals category winner:


András Mészáros (Hungary)

15–17 Years category winner:


Fergus Gill (United Kingdom)


You can read more about each photograph and the setting as well as camera equipment by checking out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/g ... =354578504

[digitalMedia]

October 22nd, 2009, 6:32 pm

Those are all beautiful. The one with the starlings is completely over the top.

[ATNO/TW]

October 22nd, 2009, 7:02 pm

Want to know what caught my interest more than the photographs this time? Veolia Environnement ( http://www.veolia.com/en/ ) is my company's parent company.

As far as the photo's go IMHO the ant is the best by far. what a macro! Although I have to admit, that I have no idea how he captured that wolf over the fence in a night shot with the right exposure and nail it without a single blur. That is pretty awesome.

[SB]

October 23rd, 2009, 12:17 am

The photographer that took the wolf shot had planned the shot for months. There is a description of how he achieved the shot on the BBC Website...

Quote:

A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award.

Jose Luis Rodriguez captured the imaginations of the judges with a picture that he had planned for years, and even sketched out on a piece of paper.

"I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting - or predation - but without blood," he told BBC News. "I didn't want a cruel image."

With a great deal of patience and careful observation of the wolves' movements, he succeeded in taking the award-winning photograph.

Mr Rodriguez used a custom-built infrared trap to snap the wolf as it leapt into the air.

The WPY competition, now in its 45th year, is owned by BBC Wildlife Magazine and London's Natural History Museum.

The panel of judges looked through more than 43,000 entries to this year's competition.

This is the fifth year that wildlife photographer Mark Carwardine has been on the judging panel. He said of the winning photo: "It's captured thousands of years of human-wolf interaction in just one moment.