2013 - Photos primées 2013 (84) Images supplémentaires...
Once again, Nature Picture Library's photographers enjoyed great success in the major international photography competitions of 2013. Alex Mustard was the overall winner of the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Michel Poinsignon and David Hackel won the main prize in the Melvita Nature Images Awards in France. Andy Rouse won the African Wildlife category of the Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards. Sergey Gorshkov and Pal Hermansen were category winners in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Ann Toon won the IUCN grant in the Melvita awards for her portfolio on elephant vasectomy. Pal Hermansen won the Fritz Poelking award at GDT for his Car Cemetary portfolio. Adam Burton maintained his superb record of being commended in each year of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition. Enrique Lopez Tapia won the Nature category of the Pollux Awards. Fifteen images by NPL photographers were highly commended in the British Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.
A long exposure renders Bar jacks (Carangoides ruber) as ghostly trails as they swim around a sponge, on a coral reef, at night. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Overall winner of GDT competiti...
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Alex Mustard / A long exposure renders Bar jacks (Carangoides ruber) as ghostly trails as they swim around a sponge, on a coral reef, at night. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Overall winner of GDT competiti...
Sillhouette of Black woodpecker {Dryocopus martius} flying from nest hole in tree trunk in mist / rain, ancient forest, Vosges mountains, Lorraine, France. Overall winner and winner of the Birds categ...
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Poinsignon and Hackel / Sillhouette of Black woodpecker {Dryocopus martius} flying from nest hole in tree trunk in mist / rain, ancient forest, Vosges mountains, Lorraine, France. Overall winner and winner of the Birds categ...
Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) from different angles, only one in focus. Virumaa, Estonia, Europe, March. Winner of the Mammals category in GDT competition 2013. 2nd Prize in the Mammals Category of M...
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Sven Zacek / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) from different angles, only one in focus. Virumaa, Estonia, Europe, March. Winner of the Mammals category in GDT competition 2013. 2nd Prize in the Mammals Category of M...
Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...
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Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) on fruit tree in snow. Helsinki, Finland. January. Overall winner in the Swiss Ornithological Institute photography competition 2013.
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Markus Varesvuo / Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) on fruit tree in snow. Helsinki, Finland. January. Overall winner in the Swiss Ornithological Institute photography competition 2013.
Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) portrait, Vosges Mountains, France. October 2012.  Highly Honoured in the wildlife category  Natures Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition...
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Radomir Jakubowski / Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) portrait, Vosges Mountains, France. October 2012. Highly Honoured in the wildlife category Natures Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition...
Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea) on Horsetail (Equisetum), Herbitzheim near Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany. Finalist in the Macro category and winner of the audience award in the Montpho...
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Radomir Jakubowski / Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea) on Horsetail (Equisetum), Herbitzheim near Saarbruecken, Saarland, Germany. Finalist in the Macro category and winner of the audience award in the Montpho...
Tolbachik Volcano erupting with lava flowing down the mountain side. Kamchatka, Russia. November 29th 2013. Winner of the Wildscapes category, Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY competitio...
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Sergey Gorshkov / Tolbachik Volcano erupting with lava flowing down the mountain side. Kamchatka, Russia. November 29th 2013. Winner of the Wildscapes category, Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY competitio...
Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) feeding chicks in a nest in an old car, Bastnas, Sweden, July. Winner of the Urban Wildlife Category at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) 2013. Winner...
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Pal Hermansen / Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) feeding chicks in a nest in an old car, Bastnas, Sweden, July. Winner of the Urban Wildlife Category at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) 2013. Winner...
Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) resting on iceberg, Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, March 2010. WINNER OF NATURE CATEGORY OF POLLUX COMPEITITON / AWARDS 2013
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Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) resting on iceberg, Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, March 2010. WINNER OF NATURE CATEGORY OF POLLUX COMPEITITON / AWARDS 2013
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) attacking Jay (Garrulus glandarius) Telemark, Norway, September
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Pal Hermansen / Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) attacking Jay (Garrulus glandarius) Telemark, Norway, September
Pair of Common european toads (Bufo bufo) with strings of toadspawn, in pond, Germany. Specially commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOY) 2013, Underwater Worlds Category.
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Solvin Zankl / Pair of Common european toads (Bufo bufo) with strings of toadspawn, in pond, Germany. Specially commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOY) 2013, Underwater Worlds Category.