Some beautiful photos
Having recently shared images from the Nikon Small World (see http://bit.ly/2xQdOHd), the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 awards (see http://bit.ly/2ipNvkn), the Royal Society of Biology’s 2017 Photographer of the Year and Young Photographer of the Year competitions (see http://bit.ly/2gQNUfg) and the Geological Society of London's Our Restless Earth (http://bit.ly/2m1FcMS) in that time of the annual news cycle when many such events announce their honours more or less simultaneously. Here to conclude the series we have some of the British Wildlife Photography awards winners for this year. Over a hundred of the photos are on show at the mall galleries in London.
We start with a magical morning in the woods of Derbyshire with a mist floating around silver birches at Bolehill Quarry in the Peak District national park. Our next is of the beginning of a short eared owl's day, aka our dusk as it emerged to hunt. The eerie green creatures in the third are hydras living in a pond (see http://bit.ly/2hazx1H) in the photographer's garden, each one but a few mm across as they hang off the underside of a lilypad waiting to snare prey in their poisoned tentacles. The portrait of a naughty gannet from a cliff top was taken in the Isle of Noss, one of the Shetlands whilst the Brock (an old name for badgers) is clearly enjoying a magical evening's scratch in the dying rays of the sun.
Loz Image credit: 1: Francis Joseph Taylor, 2: Matthew Roseveare , 3: Alex Hyde, 4: Melvin Redeker , 5: Andrew Parkinson /British Wildlife Photography Awards 2017 https://www.bwpawards.org/ http://bit.ly/2AhIfmk