TO CELEBRATE ITS 50th anniversary of their Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the Natural History Museum in Britain and BBC Worldwide has launched a People’s Choice award.
The institutions have already whittle down 41,000 entries to just 50 images and want the public to choose its favourite.
The contest hopes to “provide a global showcase of the very best nature photography”, with the two bodies priding themselves on “revealing and championing the diversity of life on Earth”.
The winners will appear in a Natural History Museum exhibition and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
To see the full collection (and you should), head over to the website. But, to start you off, here’s a smaller selection of our favourites.
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By Marsel van Oosten
Kings into the dark
By Stanley Leroux, France
Old cloths
By Claudio Contreras Koob, Mexico
Innocence Betrayed
By Hilary O’Leary, Zimbabwe
Feel safe
By Juan Carlos Mimo Perez, Spain
Dante’s Inferno
By Karen Lunney, Australia
Winter hares
By David Tipling, UK
Stretching
By Stephan Tuengler, Germany
Shoulder Check
By Henrik Nilsson, Canada
Sentry
By Neil Aldridge
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