Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Delightful exhibition at the Natural History Museum of the shortlisted entries in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

There were 100 images arranged in broad categories. The pictures were well displayed, back lit in a large format. Some of the works were amazing studies of patience with the photographers waiting weeks or months to get the shot they want. Each picture has a good commentary telling you about how and where it was taken.

There were so many good images it’d hard to pick favourites. I’d include “The Alley Cat” by Nayan Khanolkor of a leopard in an enclosed alley looking right into the camera. Also the work used on the poster of a fox peeping over a wall called “Nosey Neighbour” by Sam Hobson. I liked the gruesome picture of the aftermath of a wildebeest stampede where the dead beasts are being eaten by hyenas and I smiled at “Puddle of Procreation” by Cyril Ruoso of randy frogs as my screen saver is a picture I took of happy frogs in a pond in Barbados.

This review does come with a word of warning that the museum’s main entrance is being refurbished so everyone is going in an out through the small entrance on Exhibition Road and it’s chaotic with tour groups. Also once you are in the signing is really poor to this exhibition and again you are fighting against the youth of Europe who once they have got in through the small entrance just seem to want to sit on the stairs and talk!

Closes on 10 September 2017

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