A growling honey dass stares a cape porcess in Botswana. It is a short break in a life or death fight between the two animals. The porcupine has bought some time with its sharp kills, but a leg injury inflicted by the tie has left the porcupine vulnerable and it will ultimately not survive the meeting.
Photographer David Northall recorded the tense moment in a shot with application entitled “Spiked”. The photo ended in the top five of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Awardsannounced this week in London. Ian Wood took the highest awards home for his photo (seen below) of a Eurasian tie that wandered through the streets of the coastal town of St Leonards-on-Sea, England.
“The flawlessly timed image of Ian offers a unique glimpse of the interaction of nature with the human world, which underlines the importance of understanding urban animals in the wild,” said director of the Natural History Museum, Dr. Douglas Gurr, In a statement. “His exceptional photo serves as a powerful memory that local nature and animals, often just outside our houses, can inspire and buoy us.”
An ambling Eurasian tie, illuminated by a street lamp, seems to look up at Badger Graffiti on a quiet road in England, uk. Residents of St. Leonards-on-Sea had left food residues on the sidewalk for foxes, but Ian noticed that badgers from a nearby setting also came to feed. After one night he had seen a tie walking past the sidewalk through this wall, he decided to photograph it. He put a small skin on the edge of the road to take this photo.
Credit: Ian Wood/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A record of 76,000 votes was cast to decide this year’s People’s Choice Award winner. Nature photographer of the year is being developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Visitors to the museum can view the image of Wood, together with the four second -year photos, until June 29, 2025.
A spooky barn owl leaves the Hayloft window of a dilapidated barn to hunt for fields outside Vancouver, Canada. Jess quietly looked at the owl for several nights to understand the habits. He put an invisible bar on that would activate a flash when the owl flew out of the shed. At the same time, a slow shutter speed was the ambient light on the clouds and shed. On the tenth night all moving parts came together when the owl left to start the hunt.
Credit: Jess Findlay/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A double lenticular cloud is illuminated when the lava falls from the Villarrica -Vulkaan, Chile. Villarica is in the city of Pucón in southern Chile. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the country and broke out for the last time in 2015. Francisco makes regular journeys to Villarrica to follow his activity. During this visit he stayed in the area for 10 nights. He says that every trip is “quite an adventure – never knowing what the volcano could surprise you”. Some nights are calm, others furious like in this photo, where the brightness of the crater illuminates the nocturnal sky.
Credit: Francisco Negroni/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A deer sits upright and observes its territory while perfectly fits into a snowy landscape in Belgium. Michel had been looking for Streats in the snow for many years.
Michel fascinates the magic of snowfall every winter. He wanted to take a photo that showed how the stoats appear in the whiteness of the landscape. He had seen a few in Switzerland but never in his native Belgium. Then his dream finally came true. He lay in the snow with a white camouflage -network that covered anything but his lens. This curious deer came out of his snowy hole and sat upright from time to time and observed his territory just before he was on his way to hunt.
Credit: Michel d’Altremont/wildlife photographer of the year
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