Steve Winter's "Snowstorm Leopard" won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 award. He spent over ten months trying to photograph the endangered snow leopard, which lives in the Himalayan Mountains. He set fourteen "camera traps" and shot over 30,000 images in an attempt to photograph the elusive animals. This image was shot at 13,000 ft. in Ladak's Hemis High Altitude National Park. Only 3,500 snow leopards currently live in the wild.
Other winners:
Man and whale size each other up. - Brian Skerry.
A black colobus monkey has its fur singed in preparation for sale at an illegal bush-meat market in Gabon. - David Maitland.
"Deadlock", a rare Morelet's tree frog doggedly refused to become supper for a cat-eyed snake. - David Maitland.
Hunting chimpanzees in the dense forest of Tanzania's Gombe National Park. - Cyril Ruoso.
Black-crested macaque. - Stefano Unterthiner.
A snowy clash of white-tailed eagles during a Polish winter. - Antoni Kasprzak
awesome photos!
ReplyDeleteWOW, these are so freaking amazing! incredible.
ReplyDeletethe whale one is AMAZING. How may I get my hands on a larger quality for my desktop?
ReplyDeleteDoh - there's a link to a hi-res version here.
ReplyDeletethat is the most brilliant looking yellow-eyed monkey thing i have ever seen. fantastic
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