Photo: Minqiang Lu
Nature is filled with countless stunning moments, and these photographers managed to capture a second of that majesty.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition recently released their people’s choice award finalists for the 2022 contest. The Natural History Museum in London, which hosts the annual event, picked 25 photos out of the thousands entered into the competition as finalists.
The chosen shots include poignant peeks into how wild animals lead their private lives and how humanity’s actions affect every species on Earth.
To determine the winner of the photo competition’s people’s choice award, the Natural History Museum depends on the votes of animal lovers.Voting for the award is open until February 2. at the museum’s websitefor the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
The winner and four runners-up will be announced on February 9. Those who would like to see the finalists' photos in person can see all 25 of the shots, plus the other winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, on exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London until July 2023.
Read on to view the 25 photos from around the world that are up for the contest’s people’s choice award, and then vote for your favorite.
Sam Rowley
Martin Gregus
Gregus spied on this polar bear cub playing in a patch of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.
Richard Flack
Flack found a flock of crested guineafowl helping each other scratch hard-to-reach spots while foraging In South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
Minqiang Lu
Lu found a trio of golden snub-nosed monkeys snuggling to stay warm in central China.
Eladio Fernandez
Fernandez captured the now-regulated process that goes into catching the declining glass eel.
Claudio Contreras Koob
Roberto García-Roa
García-Roa caught a battle between a pompilid wasp and an ornate Ctenus spider on camera.
Sebastian Kennerknecht
Kennerknecht got a photo of the rare African golden cat with help from a camera trap.
Jaime Culebras
Culebras photographed this Mindo glass frog at the Río Manduriacu Reserve in Ecuador.
Michal Michlewicz
Michlewicz captured a cat on the hunt in an abandoned barn in Radolinek, Poland.
Miquel Angel Artús Illana
Illana was in Norway’s Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park when two female muskoxen started fighting near the photographer’s lens.
Kennerknecht took this photo to show the complex relationship between the Andean cat and its human neighbors, who see the feline as a mountain guardian and a symbol of good luck.
Auke-Florian Hiemstra
Hiemstra’s photo shows a perch trapped in a surgical glove that was found discarded in a Netherlands canal.
Eduardo Blanco Mendizabal
Mendizabal was in the right place at the right time to get this photo of a gecko interacting with cat graffiti in Corella, Spain.
Chloé Bès
Bès photographed this gull near Rausu port on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Igor Altuna
Jodi Frediani
Frediani shot these northern right whale dolphins in flat, clear waters near Monterey Bay, California.
Marina Cano
Cano photographed Olobor, a member of the Black Rock pride in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, after a controlled burn in the area to stimulate new grass.
Bertie Gregory
Gregory spotted this female grey wolf on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada.
Sami Vartiainen
Vartiainen caught this badger heading out on a nighttime hunt near Helsinki, Finland.
Deena Sveinsson
Sveinsson was snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado when they spotted a snowshoe hare.
Brittany Crossman
Crossman caught a sweet moment between two foxes in North Shore on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Nicholas More
More found this male Bargibant’s seahorse off the coast of Bali.
Sascha Fonseca
Fonseca positioned a camera trap to get this photo of a snow leopard admiring the mountains of northern India.
Simon Withyman
Withyman shared this photo of a fox injured after getting stuck in a plastic netting barrier to show the negative impact humans can inadvertently have on animals.
To vote for your favorite finalist photo,visit the Natural History Museum’s website for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
source: people.com
