Award Winning PhotosP-p-penguin picks up a prize: Majestic birds
swimming through icy waters in Antarctica wins coveted photography
awardPaul Nicklen's jaw-dropping picture of Emperor penguins darting
through the Ross Sea wins Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of
the Year awardOther
magnificent images include an alligator with glowing orange eyes, an
eagle hunting a fox and a polar bear stranded on an ice floe
Shortlisted images on show at the Natural History Museum in London
until March 2013
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED:
08:45 GMT, 18 October 2012
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UPDATED:
09:07 GMT, 18 October 2012
The best wildlife photographers from
around the world captured these incredible images of beasts and birds in
their natural habitat - from Antarctica to Bedfordshire.
The
astonishing selection of images of animals across the globe were
shortlisted for the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year
award.The winning shot was a beautiful snap of emperor penguins
swimming through the icy waters of the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
Emperors crowned: Paul Nicklen's incredible
underwater photo of emperor penguins gliding beneath the icy sea won the
Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year award
Bright eyes: Larry Lynch took this amazing and
sinister photo of an alligator in Myakka River State Park in Sarasota,
Florida, USA
Face-off: Sergey Gorshkov captured this snow
geese running into trouble with an arctic fox on Wrangel Island in
northeastern Russia
Happy feet: Paul Nicklen also captured this
incredible image of emperor penguins escaping leopard seals in the Ross
Sea, Antarctica
The image by photographer Paul Nicklen, from Canada, took the top
spot in the international competition.
Mr
Nicklen spent hours in wait for the penguins to charge to the surface
through a rare break in the ice so he could capture this stunning image.
He
said: 'It was a fantastic sight as hundreds launched themselves out of
the water and onto the ice above me - a moment that I felt incredibly
fortunate to witness and one I'll never forget.'The finalists had
snapped a vast
range of wild animals - from a rare ghost bear sitting down for lunch
to a fox being chased by a golden eagle.The hundred shortlisted images
will be on show at the Natural History Museum in London until March
2013.
Isolation: Ole Jorgen Liodden captured this stranded polar bear around
the islands of Svalbard in northern Norway
Cold and alone: Anna Henly was on a boat in
Svalbard - an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North
Pole - when she spotted this polar bear at around four in the morning
Predator: Stefan Huwiler hiked for five
kilometres in thick snow in the Sinite Kamani National Park in Bulgaria
to reach a hide known to be a golden eagle hotspot. There he found one
of the awe-inspiring creatures hunting a fox
Prey: Gregoire Bouguereau snapped this terrified gazelle calf running
from cheetahs in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Lords of the sky: Owen Hearn captured this red kite flying over
Bedfordshire as an airplane zooms past in the background
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