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Wildlife photos: Wolf, birds take top UK prizes

11:48 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 |
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Leaping wolf snatches photo prize. The BBC story.

A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. (The WPY competition, now in its 45th year, is owned by BBC Wildlife Magazine and London's Natural History Museum.)

Jose Luis Rodriguez captured the imaginations of the judges with a picture that he had planned for years, and even sketched out on a piece of paper.

"I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting - or predation - but without blood," he told BBC News. "I didn't want a cruel image."

Online gallery: Browse all the 2009 winning and commended images.

Click on these photos for more about each of them and the photographers who made them.

CLASH OF THE YELLOWHAMMERS

Fergus Gill, who was 17 years old when he entered the competition, won this year's Young Photographer of the Year award for his picture of a brief but dramatic clash between two of the colourful UK songbirds.


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