Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009
(Museums, Wildlife Photographe)
Venue: National Museum CardiffAddress: Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
Enquiries Tel: 029 2039 7951
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009
To 12 September 2010 (Nb. Open Tuesday–Sunday and bank holiday Mondays)The most prestigious competition of its kind and the international leader in the artistic representation of the natural world comes to National Museum Cardiff.
Owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine, the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 saw a record 43,135 entries - a 33 per cent increase on the previous year.
This truly international competition received entries from 94 countries including China, Russia, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Macedonia, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia and Bahrain with first category winnners from Estonia, Zambia and the Czech Republic.
British photographer Robert Friel was highly commended in the One Earth Award category, which seeks to highlight interaction between humans and the natural world. He captured his amusing, but thought-provoking, Footsteps photo of a curious king penguin chick on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
The much coveted title of Veolia Environnement Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year was awarded to Scottish teenager Fergus Gill, who lives in rural Perthshire. His dramatic image, clash of the yellowhammers, was judged to be the most memorable of all images by photographers aged 17 or under.
The very best entries, including the winners from all 17 categories, can be seen at National Museum Cardiff from 19 June until 12 September 2010.
'While there is no magic formula for winning and no hard and fast rules to explain why one photograph wins and another doesn’t, all winning shots have one thing in common – originality.
The judges are looking for something that stops them in their tracks. The competition plays an increasingly crucial role in raising the profile of wildlife photography and generating awareness of conservation.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.’
Mark Carwardine, Chair of the judging panel. The 2009 competition and exhibition are sponsored by Veolia Environment. They are a world leader in environmental services, working with businesses, communities and governments to minimise our daily impact on the environment we have a communal responsibility to protect.
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10-07-2010 to 12-09-2010
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