For the 2024 edition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, orchestrated by London’s Natural History Museum, has unveiled the winners of its prestigious nature photography competition. Discover the most beautiful shots of the year, taken by photographers who have succeeded in capturing suspended moments of flora and fauna.
Oceans, plants and fungi, invertebrates, amphibians and reptiles, animal portraits, urban life… Once again this year, the photographs in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition revealed nature as it is rarely seen. Out of nearly 60,000 entries, just a few caught the jury’s eye.
Shane Gross, winner of the Wildlife Photographer Grand Prix
Shane Gross, Canadian photojournalist specializing in the protection of marine environments and winner of the Grand Prix du Photographe Animalier, offers us a photograph worthy of the finest impressionist paintings. The photograph plunges us into the middle of Lac des Cèdres, near Ottawa, and reveals a scene of water-lily stems where blue tadpoles are trying to rise to the surface to feed. The photographer stayed underwater for several hours to avoid disturbing the species or lifting the silt that would have obstructed the water’s clarity, and used a fisheye lens that gives a panoramic view of the scene.
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Featured Photo: © Jack Zhi / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024
