Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 09

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/categoryGroup.do?group=1

some of them are quite funny;

they're all pretty impressive. really like that crow in the snow or whatever. pretty sure i've seen some of them before on the BBC site.

almost all of the photographers have white peoples names though, omg teh bnp is right

that last one is ridiculously good

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:06 PM, ezkerraldean said:

they're all pretty impressive. really like that crow in the snow or whatever. pretty sure i've seen some of them before on the BBC site.

 

almost all of the photographers have white peoples names though, omg teh bnp is right

I think a dago won

leopard seals are fucking scary

Wolf jumping over the fence won and no surprise either, it's fucking amazing. Looks like a painting.

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:36 PM, kaen said:

leopard seals are fucking scary

I'd never heard of them before but yeah they are

the russian one with the bird underwater looks like a weird chop doesnt it. or at least the light/colour looks odd. (same as the fox, looks hdr'd - but i dont know much about real camera work)

i also like this:

and the winner of the underwater i also love:

tis cool. the one with the snake and the frog is a bit scary.

amazing stuff

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:52 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:36 PM, kaen said:

leopard seals are fucking scary

I'd never heard of them before but yeah they are

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jul/24/science.highereducation

They're complete bastards.

amazing stuff, but some seem 'shooped. i heard this is actually quite a common thing (ie. stock photos, nature magazines etc) - presumably all the submissions had to be original film or RAW file?

that gecko has KICKASS eyes

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:50 PM, Obel said:

Wolf jumping over the fence won and no surprise either, it's fucking amazing. Looks like a painting.

It also seems to me to be the most likely to have been staged. How the fuck do you get a wolf to jump a fence right in front of you, without it jumping AT you to take your ass out?

  On 10/22/2009 at 5:30 PM, Z_B_Z said:

tis cool. the one with the snake and the frog is a bit scary.

OH NO YOU DI-INT!

for serious, that's a gecko. green-eyed gecko to be specific (Gekko smithii).

All said and done, I wish I had what it takes to be a wildlife photographer. I don't even want to think of how costly most of the gear these photographers carry is (not that pro photogs pay for their equipment themselves).

  On 10/23/2009 at 1:23 AM, umop_apisdn said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 2:50 PM, Obel said:

Wolf jumping over the fence won and no surprise either, it's fucking amazing. Looks like a painting.

It also seems to me to be the most likely to have been staged. How the fuck do you get a wolf to jump a fence right in front of you, without it jumping AT you to take your ass out?

 

it explains how he took it, he used an infrared trigger to take the photo after watching wolves moving through that area repeatedly for a few nights

Ahhhh, see, I wasn't thinking like a wildlife photographer. I was thinking you actually had to be behind the lens at the time the shot was taken. PWNT.