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Photos show bears, otters, seals, zebras, penguins, and other animals striking hilarious poses. The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards announced the winners of its 2024 photography contest on Tuesday.
The winners of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organized by the Natural History Museum, have been announced. From a record-breaking 59,228 entries submitted by ...
The techniques of wildlife photography differ greatly from those used in landscape photography. For example, in wildlife photography wide apertures are used to achieve a fast shutter speed, freeze the subject's motion, and blur the backgrounds, while landscape photographers prefer small apertures to keep the entire frame in focus.
In the early days of photography, it was difficult to get a photograph of wildlife due to slow lenses and the low sensitivity of photographic media. [2] Earlier photos of animals were often of captive ones. [3] [4] These included photos of lion cubs taken at the Bristol zoo in 1854 and in 1864, photos of the last Quagga by Frank Hayes. [5]
Thomas D. Mangelsen (born January 6, 1946) is an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist. He is most famous for his photography of wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, as he has lived inside the zone in Jackson, Wyoming, for over 40 years.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual international wildlife photography competition staged by the Natural History Museum in London, England. There is an exhibition of the winning and commended images each year at the museum, which later tours around the world.
A more recent addition to wildlife observation tools are the web sites that facilitate uploading and management of images from remote wildlife cameras. For example, the Smithsonian Institution supports the eMammal and Smithsonian Wild programs, which provide a mechanism for volunteer deployment of wildlife cameras around the world.
Wildscreen ARK Launch Party 2024. ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", [1] [2] which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. [1]