These Are the Best Wildlife Photographs of 2015
London’s Natural History Museum has just published the winners of its prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition — and the images are as spectacular as always.
Each year, the competition manages to illicit a breathtaking array of pictures that mange to depict the beauty and brutal reality of the natural world. This year, the judges had to sift through 42,000 entries from 96 countries to choose the winners . We’ve assembled some of our favorites here .
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These Are the Best Wildlife Photographs of 2015
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Go check out the other photos . They're all amazing.
I'm heading to the article, but wanted to thank you for bringing this to our attention! Fascinating!
Sixpick used the messaging system to ask me what I think the picture means.
Interesting question... which may be interpreted at any number of levels...
There's the primordial level, which the photographer explains: red foxes are bigger than arctic foxes, and will clear the smaller predators from their territory as a matter of course. It's two birds with one stone: a good meal, and less competition for future meals!
But the magic of the photo goes so much further!
The foxes' heads are almost perfectly parallel... but one is alive and the other is dead.
Is the arctic fox "submitting"?
The position of the red fox's hind quarter is almost that of a coupling.
What, indeed... does the photo mean?
The shadow of the fox on the brick wall is a knockout of a photo.
Amazing series of photos Bob. I love the Scarlet Ibis.
We have a pair of Red Fox living on our property. The other morning I was standing on our front deck an saw one of the Fox attack a groundhog, he thought it was an easy meal.
He soon learned that although the groundhog looks fat and slow, they are anything but, after a brief tussle the Fox beat a hasty retreat, A little worse for the wear.
Thanks for the posting, just spectacular.
When I grow up, I hope I'm as good as the photographers whose works were "The Best of 2015"!