Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022: Check out some of this year's pictures!
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Eight-year-old photographer Joshua snapped this striking picture of a red deer stag in the snow at Richmond Park in London. Joshua and his dad followed the deer at a safe distance before he was able to capture the shot. ‘He almost looked as if he was having a snow shower,’ Joshua said about the deer.
This photographer had to wade through murky water to get this epic shot! He photographed female treefrogs laying their eggs on palm fronds. Each female lays around 200 eggs and eventually the tadpoles will drop into the water below.
Dmitry Kokh took a picture of this polar bear looking very relaxed indeed! The bear lives on the island of Kolyuchin in the Russian arctic, a place which had been abandoned by humans since 1992. When Dmitry’s boat approached the small island, he was surprised to spot movement in one of the houses. It turned out their were over 20 bears in total living in the abandoned area!
Samuel Sloss' image is highly commended in the 15 to 17-year-old category in the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. He photographed this coconut octopus peeking out from its clam-shell shelter while muck diving. How amazing are the colours!
Doesn't this make for an unusual pairing? Suzi Eszterhas captured the interesting interaction between a sloth which was trying to reach a clump of trees and the huge dog it ran into on the way! Luckily, the trained dog left the sloth alone so it could complete its journey.
How stunning do these fish look! Photographer Tiina Törmänen came across the school of European perch on her annual lake snorkel. She snapped the orange-finned fish flying through clouds of pink-tinged algae.
Jose Fragozo captured the contrast between nature and buildings created by humans with his giraffe shot taken in Nairobi National Park. It reflects how some spaces for wildlife around the world have been made smaller because of human activity.
This meeting between a pygmy rabbit and a stink beetle was shot by Morgan Heim in the Columbia Basin. The beetle had been sheltering in the rabbit's burrow.
These two dippers were photographed fighting to get a good position on a 'dipping' rock in Finland. Dippers use ‘dipping’ rocks as a launch pad to scout rivers before diving down to hunt mayfly, caddisfly larvae and small fish.
Take a look at this amazing young whale! The image was taken in New Zealand by photographer Richard Robinson. His encounter with the curious calf lasted 30 minutes, with the whale circling him, swimming off, then returning for another look.
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