If you are a fan of nature, these images courtesy the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award are just for you. Go on, scroll and go wild!
The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award has been announced and it has gone to British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani for her poignant image of a polar bear’s cozy nap on a piece of sea ice.
The annual contest is organised by the Natural History Museum.
Check out the four other finalists.
Ice Bed: A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the far north, off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. Image Courtesy: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the YearShared Parenting: A pair of lionesses devotedly groom one of the pride’s five cubs in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Image Courtesy: Mark Boyd/Wildlife Photographer of the YearThe Happy Turtle: A Balkan pond turtle shares a moment of peaceful coexistence with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel’s Jezreel Valley. The photographer only snapped this image when he noticed that instead of snapping up the insect, the turtle appeared to be experiencing pleasure from the interaction in the midst of the swamp’s murky waters. Image Courtesy: Tzahi Finkelstein/Wildlife Photographer of the YearStarling Murmuration: A mesmerising mass of starlings swirl into the shape of a giant bird on their way to communal roosts above the city of Rome, Italy. Image Courtesy: Daniel Dencescu/Wildlife Photographer of the YearAurora Jellies: Moon jellyfish swarm in the cool autumnal waters of a fjord outside Tromsø in northern Norway illuminated by the aurora borealis. Image Courtesy: Audun Rikardsen/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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