This year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition saw 38,975 entries from 93 different countries put through an intensive process of anonymous judging by an international panel of experts.
The judges are looking for originality, narrative, technical excellence and ethical practice. From these entries, the 19 category winners aim to highlight the natural world in all its finest majestic wonder and diversity.
Overall winner, American photographer Karine Aigner, is the fifth woman to take home the grand title in the competition’s 58-year history. Her image, a close-up of cactus bees, photographed from a bee-level point of view, was taken at a Texas ranch.
Meanwhile, 16-year-old Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn from Thailand has been awarded the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize for his intriguing abstract image of a baleen whale capturing its very small prey.
Director of the Natural History Museum, Dr Doug Gurr, says of the competition, ‘Wildlife
