There are a whole host of spectacular photos up for the prestigious prize.
(Image: Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
The public are being urged to vote for their favourite nature image from an “exceptional” shortlist for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year people’s choice award.
A determined honey badger trying to catch a spiky meal, a beluga doing a spot of exfoliating, an Indian wolf pack pausing in play and an image of a cheetah cub waiting to be sold at a market, are among the 25 images shortlisted for the public vote.
They have been selected from the 59,228 entries to this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, in addition to the contest’s 100 winning images announced in October, by the Natural History Museum, London, and an international judging panel.
Now the public can have their say on the images, voting for their favourite picture online or using digital screens at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the museum in London.
Dr Douglas Gurr, director of the Natural History Museum, said: “The people’s choice award allows members of the public from across the globe to join the jury and vote for their winning image, inspiring everyone to connect with the natural world.”
Take a look at the incredible pictures shortlisted below.
People can vote for their favourite image from the people’s choice shortlist.
Voting is open until January 29 next year, with the winning image and four runners-up announced in February and displayed online.
The photographer has been working to chronicle the lives of endangered whooping cranes in our 21st century world.A costumed crane biologist approaches a male whooping crane as tall as she is and, with cat-like quickness
(Image: Michael Forsberg)
Like foxes, badgers are doing quite well in some urban environments and I have a sett near my house where some come up to forage at night. I live right down the end of a dead end road so there is never any traffic at night and I’ve started to see and phot
(Image: Ian Wood)
Giant petrels, like albatrosses, are seabirds. When we think of them, we imagine them flying above the waves, not encountering any land for weeks on end… therefore it was quite unexpected to see this Northern giant petrel in such a woody environment, sitting on a nest at the edge of the rātā forest of Enderby Island. Like many seabirds, they breed on islands, where predators and disturbances are fewer.
(Image: Samuel Bloch )
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub hunting Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) laying on the water. Svalbard, Norway..
(Image: Erlend Haarberg)