Stay Tuned To See Some Of The Top Images From The 2021 Wildlife Photographer Of The Year (WPOTY) Competition, The Final Winners Of Which Will Be Announced This Fall.

The selected images of the 57th Wildlife Photographer of the Year ( WPOTY ) competition, which were chosen from more than 50,000 photos from 95 different countries, show the beauty and vulnerability of nature and animals in their natural habitat.

As evidenced by the number and quality of entries, this year’s contest is the most competitive in WPOTY history. The winning images will be announced in late fall.

The WPOTY competition and exhibition is London’s Natural History Museum’s global platform for photographers. Photographers of any age and level of photography can participate in this competition to capture and share the beauty of the natural world.

Ørsted Renewable Energy and Seedlip sponsored this year’s competition. A panel of international industry experts will judge each submitted image anonymously based on its creativity, originality, and technical excellence. This field has different categories, including age, location, and subject.

This year’s submissions include a diverse range of unique images, including a lynx recovering from an ecological disaster and narwhal shrimp trying to communicate in the deep ocean.

Ahead of the official winners being announced in October, a unique selection of award-winning photos has been released to remind viewers of the importance of the species and diversity of life on Earth.

In the following, we will see some of the pictures selected by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 competition judges.

Photographer’s name: Udon Rikardsen

Photographer’s name: Bodelini of Zaza

Photographer’s name: Douglas Grimsey

Name of the photographer: Emmeline Dupuy

Photographer name: Gagana Mendis Wickramasinghe

Illustrator Name: Georg Poppa

Illustrator Name: Gail Weisen

Photographer’s name: Jack Ji

Photographer’s name: Jamie Colebras

Photographer name: Johnny Armstrong

Name of the photographer: Jurgen Freund

Photographer’s name: Lara Jackson

Name of the photographer: Laurent Ballesta

Photographer Name: Rakesh Polappa

Photographer name: Sergio Marijuana

Photographer’s name: Wei Fu

The final winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, via a virtual ceremony broadcast from the Natural History Museum in London.

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