NPL's photographers yet again enjoyed great success in photographic competitions around the world in 2022. This gallery showcases not only the winning images, but also those which were runners-up or highly commended, with details of the relevant competitions. NPL photographers featured strongly in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. Karine Aigner was awarded the main prize with her image 'The big buzz' and Tony Wu won the Underwater category with his image 'Shooting Star'. Mateusz Piesiak was also successful, winning the Rising Star Portfolio Award.
Theo Bosboom and Pal Hermansen both won categories in GDT, European Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Our photographers also had success in the Bird Photographer of the Year Competition - Erlend Haarberg was awarded overall winner and won the Birds in the Environment category, Henley Spiers won the Black and White category. Lukas Schaefer won the Video Award and our very own video editor, Ewan Heath-Flynn, won the Conservation Award. Success was also achieved in the Swiss Vogelwarte Photo Competition, Asferico International Nature Photography competition, MontPhoto, Landscape Photographer of the Year, Siena International Photo Awards, Ocean Photographer of the Year amongst others.
Doug Gimesy / During an extreme heat-stress event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony, where temperatures exceeded 43??in a desperate search for somewhere cooler and les...
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Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging upside down resting in tree, silhouette of head through its wings. It is spreading its wings to allow more air to flow over it helping to cool...
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Doug Gimesy / Firefighters from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them.~~Park Rang...
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Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, with tongue out after licking water from its body. Having just completed a high-speed belly dip into a river on a hot day to wet its belly, h...
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Alex Mustard / Dense growth of Bootlace seaweed (Chorda filum) in shallow water, Kimmeridge, Dorset, England, UK, English Channel. July. Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition (WPY) 2022 - Plants and Fungi ca...
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Charlie Hamilton-James / Aerial view of migrating Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) on the border of Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa. Highly commended in the Behaviour: Mammals cate...
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Charlie Hamilton-James / Ranger removing snare from a wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), northern Serengeti, Tanzania, Africa. Wildebeest are targeted by poachers with snares made from the wire rims of car tyres. Highly comm...
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Clay Bolt / Vosnesensy's bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) and Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA. Highly commended in the Urban Wildlife category of Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2...
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Doug Gimesy / Emily Small, founder of Goongerah Wombat Orphanage, wildlife rescuer and carer, working in her Melbourne inner-city apartment, with two orphaned and rescued baby bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus)...
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Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / American mink (Neovison vison) kits fight to reach food in their enclosure in a fur farm, Sweden. Captive. Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2022 - Photojournalism category - Highly Comme...
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Juergen Freund / Banded sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) around the roots of mangrove tree, split level. Mali Island, Macuata Province, Fiji, South Pacific. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 - Behaviour: Amphibia...
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Markus Varesvuo / Male Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in reindeer hoof print, Utsjoki Finland, February. Highly Commended in the Behaviour: Birds category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2022. When...
