The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is an annual international showcase of the best nature photography. It was first introduced in 1965. This year’s 58th annual contest attracted more than 38,500 entries from 93 countries around the globe.
The Top Ten Photographs
Here are the top ten photographs from the wildlife photography 2022:
1. Bear Bonanza: A hungry big brown bear swims through a school of sockeye salmon, while the fish avoid it
Sockeye salmon avoid a hungry big brown bear. In the wake of finding a vantage highlight to convey the struggle, Rice lit the scene by getting the sun at the ideal point. This bear’s technique of more than once swimming through a huge school might not have been the best.
2. The female tree frogs grasp onto palm fronds for mass breeding
Bothered by mosquitoes, Güell waded into a deep pool of murky water. As dawn broke, a significant number of female ‘gliding tree frogs’ arrived at the pool to deposit their eggs on the palm fronds hanging overhead. These impressive mass-breeding events occur at select spots several times annually. Each female frog lays approximately 200 eggs, resulting in substantial clusters of eggs.
3. Bear With Us: Two polar bears explore an abandoned building
On a yacht, looking for shelter from a storm, Kokh recognized these polar bears roaming the structures of a long-abandoned settlement. As they investigated each window and entryway, Kokh used a low-noise drone to snap a photo that invokes a dystopian future.
4. Heavenly Flamingos: A group of flamingos stands on a lake, perfectly reflecting the sky and clouds making a symmetrical masterpiece
High in the Andes, Takasago powered through a bout of altitude sickness to catch this illusory scene of a preening gathering of Chilean flamingos.
5. Free: A person releasing two small birds in the air.
Investigating the connection between Cuban culture and songbirds, and the future of a well-established tradition. For many years, Cubans have caught and kept songbirds and held bird-singing competitions. Here, two rose-breasted grosbeaks are released into the wild following quite a while of recovery to strengthen their wing muscles.
6. The Mysterious Morels: Forest Fantasy
A fantasy scene in the woodlands of Greece’s Mount Olympus. Partaking in the exchange among organisms and fantasies, Papatsanis needed to create a mystical scene. He waited for the sun to channel through the trees and light the water behind the scenes, then used a wide-angle lens and flashes to feature the morels’ overly complex structures.
7. The Bat-Snatcher: A snake grasping a bat firmly in its mouth
Belmar waited in darkness as a Yucatan rat snake gobbled up a bat. Using a red light, to which both the bat and snake are less sensitive, Fernando watched out for this Yucatan rat snake jabbing out of a break. He had only seconds to have the chance as the rat snake withdrew into its crater with its bat prey.
8. Past, Present, and Future: A sea lion swimming above the carcass of a dead sea lion
Laman’s picture depicts a living and a dead ocean lion among drifting jellyfish. Laman’s lips, the only part of his body left uncovered, were stung on many times by swarms of the sea-nettle jellyfish gradually trailing their long tentacles. He was getting into position to photograph a sea lion carcass while a living ocean lion showed up from the dim waters to examine.
9. Spider with a Chick: A small spider leaps toward a plover chick.
Desai encountered an unexpected experience between a beach wolf spider and a plover chick. Hoping to keep away from the beach-going crowds, Desai had been lying on the sand of Crane Beach, Massachusetts, since dawn, photographing piping plovers.
10. The Night Hoarder: A wood rat climbs the branch of a tree at night
Badyaev was more than happy to find a raised wood rat, saving him from slithering through thickets of barbed cacti to find one on the ground. Once ready, the test was to remain still, keeping a firm grasp on his camera stuff to prevent the inquisitive rat from carting it away.
