Photos From The Veolia Enviromental Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Competition

I will just go ahead and tell you that my favorite Wildlife Photographer won the thing. Paul Nicklen is an amazingly gifted wildlife photographer that has endured frigid arctic waters, and other extreme conditions to get the shot. His winning photo is below. As well, you will find the Young Photographer of the Year that captured their shot on a D90. How awesome is that?

I will also show you some other fantastic shots from the competition as well, and I will include a link to the website so that you can dig around yourself.

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WINNER WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Paul Nicklen captured this in Antartica with a Canon 1D Mark IV and an 8-15 F/4 lens

WINNER YOUNG WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Owen captured this shot from his Grandparent's farm in Bedfordshire England with a D90 and an F/4 300mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter.

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Larry Lynch got this shot by lining up and hitting the gator with a flash turned as low as it would go. The light reflecting off of the tapetum licidum - the same thing you find in a cat - caused the eyes to glow red. This was shot in Myakka River State Park in Florida with a Nikon D2X and a 80-400mm F/4.5 - 5.6

Mark Tatchell grabbed this shot south of the British Island Territory of South Georgia just North of Antarctica. The background is a huge sea sculpted Iceberg.

Gregoire Bouguereau from France had been tracking and shooting this Cheetah mom and her cubs, when he saw her take intrest in a single wildebeest that was sick and having a hard time getting to it's feet. It kept collapsing. So he got there before the cheetah did, and set up his Nikon D3X and a 16-35 F/4 lens along with a SB-900 flash. He used his remote control to trigger the camera from a distance. 

Another great grab from Paul. This was captured in the old growth rain forrest of British Columbia. The bear is actually a black bear with a recessive gene that gives the bear it's soft white coat. Paul was less than a meter away from this bear when he shot this image with a Canon 1Ds Mark II and a 16-35 F/2.8 lens.