Advertisements The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were revealed yesterday at a ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London. There were 19 category winners selected from over 48,000 entries from 100 countries, so I believe that the judges had had a very tough choice ahead of them.
Yongqing Bao from the Chinese province of Qinghai has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 title for his image titled The Moment. And the title is more than fitting, considering that the photo captures a perfect and incredibly intense moment of a standoff between a Tibetan fox and a marmot. “A powerful frame of both humor and horror,” as the contest judges described it, and I find it to be a perfect description of this dramatic and intense photo. Chair of the judging panel, Roz Kidman Cox, said about the winning image: Natural History Museum Director Sir Michael Dixon comments: The title of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 went to fourteen-year-old Cruz Erdmann. His winning photo is a serene portrait of an iridescent big fin reef squid captured on a night dive in the Lembeh Strait off North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Cruz has been in love with the ocean from a very early age. In fact, he gained his diving certification when he was only ten years old. After inheriting his father’s old underwater camera, he found the perfect medium to express his passion for all things aquatic. And this passion and skill brought him this year’s award for the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. The winning photos will be on a display from 18 October 2019 till 31 May 2020, along with 98 other spectacular photos. The exhibition will start in London and then tour internationally to locations such as Canada, Spain, the USA, Australia, and Germany. So, if you’re in any of these locations or the road takes you there, don’t forget to drop by and see the exhibition live. Otherwise, check out some of the winning photos below, and make sure to see the rest on Wildlife Photographer of the Year’s website.
