NHM : Wildlife Photographer of the Year
It seems like ages ago ( maybe jan ‘09 ) we visited friends in London who took us to the Natural History Museum ( NHM ) for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. I can’t even start to think when i was last in the Natural History Museum and so that alone was quite fun to see the tRex in the lobby etc. The exhibit itself is divided into categories such as Birds, Underwater, Plants, Wild places, and Creative Visions. Each category had maybe 10 photos in and in total there were probably 200 photos to see. Aside from the obvious quality of the photos, what really stood out for me was some of the Junior awards. These are photos from children between 11 and 17 and quite frankly some of them were no different to the adult photos – they were very impressive. However, what stood out is an 11 year old kid with £4k’s worth of digital camera on safari in Africa! Makes you wonder who else would be a good photographer if they had those sorts of experiences from a young age.
The exhibit is something that i would go back to next year ( maybe even EVERY year ) and at the time i was even contemplating buying some prints of the photos. Its taken me until now to actually find out if you can get prints and hence deciding to blog about it! Fortunately for me, some of the photos are available to get on print and i’ve included links & thumbnails to some of my favourites on the right. Please click through the links to find more information about the photograph and photographer.