The Winners Of The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2021 Contest
The Winners Of The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2021 Contest Were Announced Recently. Stay With us To See These Fascinating Works.
The Natural History Museum has announced the 2021 winners of its 57th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The awards started as a magazine competition in 1965 and have been held yearly since then. This photography contest and its exhibition aim to inspire a love for the natural world and draw people’s attention to the planet earth.
Last year’s event saw 49,000 entries, with the grand prize awarded to Sergey Gorshkov for his depiction of a Siberian tiger hugging an ancient fir tree.
The competition is judged in several different categories such as “Animals in their Environment,” “Animal Portraits,” “Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles,” “Behavior: Birds,” and other topics.
Winners of all categories compete for the grand title of the competition.
Laurent Ballesta, a French underwater photographer and biologist, was announced as the winner of the Natural History Museum during a virtual awards ceremony from among 50,000 photos submitted by photographers from 95 different countries.
His enigmatic painting, titled “Creation,” depicts camouflaged tropical fish emerging from a milky cloud of eggs and sperm in Fakarava, French Polynesia. Every year Ballesta and his team returned to this lagoon and dived day and night so as not to miss the annual spawning in July during the full moon.
- Winner of the underwater category
- Name of the work: Creation
- Name of the Photographer: Laurent Ballesta
- Photographer’s country: France
Dr. Doug Gore, director of the Natural History Museum, says:
This year’s grand title winner reveals a hidden world underwater, A fleeting moment of excellent animal behavior that few people have witnessed.
- Winner of the category of photographers under ten years old
- Name of the work: Dome house
- Name of the Photographer: Video on R. Heber
- Photographer’s country: India
10-year-old Video on R. Heber received the title Young Wildlife Photographer of 2021 for his colorful picture. The work “Dome House” depicts a tropical recluse spider as a tricycle passes by. Vidya participated in this competition for the first time when he was only eight. He loved photographing the often-overlooked creatures in the streets and parks near his home in Bengaluru, India.
Below you can see other pictures of the winner of this competition.
- Winner of the category of animal photographers in their living environment
- Name of the work: Grizzly food leftovers
- Photographer’s name: Zach Clothier
- Photographer’s country: United States of America
Winner of the animal portrait category- Name of the work: Reflection
- Illustrator Name: Majid Ali
- Photographer’s country: Kuwait
- Behavior category winner: Invertebrates
- Name of the work: spinning coils
- Illustrator Name: Gail Weisen
- Photographer’s country: Israel/Canada
- Behavior Category Winner: Birds
- Name of the work: intimate touch
- Photographer’s name: Shane Colin
- Photographer’s country: Canada
- Behavior Category Winner: Mammals
- Name of the work: Horn by the horn
- Name of Photographer: Stefano Entertainer
- Photographer’s country: Italy
- Behavior Category Winner: Amphibians and Reptiles
- Title: Where giant salamanders grow
- Name of the Photographer: João Rodríguez
- Photographer’s country: Portugal
- Winner of the natural artist category
- Name of the work: Bewildered
- Photographer name: Alex Mustard
- Photographer’s country: England
- Winner of the ocean category
- Title of the work: Collapse of the orphanage
- Photographer’s name: Jennifer Hayes
- Photographer’s country: United States
- Winner of the plants and mushrooms category
- Name of the work: Rich Reflections
- Photographer’s name: Justin Gilligan
- Photographer’s country: Australia
- Winner of the urban wildlife category
- Name of the work: Spider Room
- Illustrator Name: Gail Weisen
- Photographer’s country: Israel/Canada
- Winner of the marshland category
- Name of the work: A road to destruction
- Name of the Photographer: Xavier Lafont
- Photographer’s country: Spain
- Winner of the photojournalism category
- Word of the work: The elephant in the room
- Photographer’s name: Adam Oswell
- Photographer’s country: Australia
- Winner of the photojournalist story category
- Name of the work: Healing touch, from collective care
- Photographer’s name: Brent Stirton
- Photographer’s country: South Africa
- Winner of the Rising Star Portfolio category
- Name of the work: Dry time for sea bears
- Photographer’s name: Martin Gregos
- Photographer’s country: Canada / Slovakia
- Winner of the portfolio category
- Name of the work: Face to face, from the cichlids of the planet Tanganyika
- Name of the Photographer: Angel For
- Photographer’s country: Spain
- Winner of 11 to 14-year-old photographers category
- Name of the work: sunflower singing bird
- Name of the Photographer: Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco
- Photographer’s country: Spain
- Winner of the 15-17-year-old photographer category
- Name of the work: Ambitious blue raven
- Photographer Name: Lasse Korkla
- Country of the Photographer: Finland
Participation in the wildlife photographer of the year 2022 competition started on October 18, 2021, and the deadline for submitting works will end on December 9, 2021. You can see the images of all the finalists of this year’s competition on the Wildlife Photographer of the Year website.
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