{"id":1574,"date":"2019-02-13T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2019-02-13T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:14:34","slug":"npl-photographers-highly-commended-in-peoples-choice-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/npl-photographers-highly-commended-in-peoples-choice-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NPL photographers highly commended in People&#8217;s Choice Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Nature Picture Library photographers Matt Maran, Bence Mate and Wim van den Heever, who were all highly commended in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/discover\/news\/2019\/february\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-lumix-peoples-choice-winner-2018.html\">Wildlife Photographer of\u00a0 the Year Lumix People&#8217;s Choice Awards 2018<\/a>, announced today 13th February 2019. We are delighted to share their images here &#8211; three young African wild dogs playing with an impala leg, a Red fox&#8217;s encounter with a fox mural in London, and an early morning scene from the Falkland Islands of two male King penguins competing for the attention of a female. View our gallery of all our photographers&#8217; 2018 competition winning images <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/-latest-highlights\/2018\/competition-winners.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-1574 style-standard'><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) juveniles playing with the leg of an impala, trying to drag it in three different directions. Mkuze, South Africa.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615132-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) juveniles playing with the leg of an impala, trying to drag it in three different directions. Mkuze, South Africa.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01568566-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Urban Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) walking past wall with red fox mural \/ graffiti . North London, England, UK, April.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01568566-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01568566-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01568566-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01568566-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Urban Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) walking past wall with  red fox mural \/ graffiti . North London, England, UK, April.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615307-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) at sunrise. Two males and a female, with the males fighting for the attention of the female. Falklands Islands.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615307-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615307-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01615307-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) at sunrise. Two males and a female, with the males fighting for the attention of the female. Falklands Islands.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Nature Picture Library photographers Matt Maran, Bence Mate and Wim van den Heever, who were all highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of\u00a0 the Year Lumix People&#8217;s Choice Awards 2018, announced today 13th February 2019. We are delighted to share their images here &#8211; three young African wild dogs playing with an impala&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/npl-photographers-highly-commended-in-peoples-choice-award\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}