The juried winners of the 60th Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest were announced earlier this year, but the People’s Choice Award contest is still in full swing. And you can help select the winner.
The contest’s organizer, the Natural History Museum in London (NHM), selected 25 finalists for the award and posted the images on its website. Members of the public have until January 29 to make their choice. The museum will announce the winner and four runners-up on February 5. Head over to the NHM’s website to cast your vote.
There’s a limit of one vote per person, and votes cannot be changed — so choose carefully.
In the meantime, here are some of ExplorersWeb’s favorites.
Photo: Michael Forsberg/Natural History Museum
Biologist in disguise
Michael Forsberg captured this dynamic shot of science in action as a part of his ongoing effort to chronicle the lives of whooping cranes. The disguised biologist in this photo was attempting to get close enough to the crane to change the transmitter on its leg.
Photo: Jess Findlay, Natural History Museum
A barn owl leaves its perch at dusk. It took photographer Jess Findlay 10 nights and a motion-sensitive flash to capture this haunting and haunted image.
Photo: Erlend Haarberg, Natural History Museum
This photo is called “Sneak Attack” for obvious reasons. According to photographer Erlend Haarberg, the polar bear cub shown here was more interested in ambushing northern fulmars than it was in eating the walrus carcass its mother had found.
Photo: Michel d’Oultremont, Natural History Museum
Minimalism is the name of the game with Michel d’Oultremont’s simplistic image of a stoat in a snowstorm. The photographer has been photographing stoats for years, but this is the first time he has encountered one in his native Belgium. To get this shot, d’Oultremont took a page from the stoat’s playbook and camouflaged himself in white.
Photo: Vincent Premel, Natural History Museum
Herpetologist and photographer Vincent Premel captured this Surinam golden-eyed tree frog mid-concert just as the first rains fell over French Guiana.
Photo: Bence Máté, Natural History Museum
Irritated owl
Nobody does bemused or irritated quite like an owl. Photographer Bence Mate named this photo of a little owl (that’s the species’ common name) and a European roller “Annoying Neighbor.” To get the shot, he spent 27 days in a blind, waiting for the right moment.
You can see all 25 of the photos in the running for the People’s Choice Award on the Natural History Museum’s website.
