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PHOTOS: Best Wild Animal Pictures of 2009 Announced
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| October 22, 2009-
Posted on 10/26/2009 3:37:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Overall Winner "The Storybook Wolf"
This nighttime shot of a wolf leaping into a farm in northern Spain has been named overall winner of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition.
The picture, by Spanish photographer Josi Luis Rodrmguez, was selected from more than 43,000 entries. Iberian wolves--a subspecies of the gray wolf--are extremely wary of humans after centuries of persecution. Rodrmguez captured the photograph using motion sensors and an infrared barrier to operate the camera.
"This wolf jumping over the farmer's enclosure with the supposed intent of killing his livestock speaks for itself--thousands of years of history are frozen in this masterfully executed moment," competition judge and nature photographer Jim Brandenburg said in a statement.
The winning image was announced at London's Natural History Museum, which jointly owns the annual photo competition with BBC Wildlife Magazine.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: contest; jpb; photo; photos; wildanimal; wildlife
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Pet cat Ryska showed who's boss despite being outsized by several red foxes that came snooping around photographer Igor Shpilenok's ranger cabin in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. Her defiance helped win Shpilenok a Wildlife Photographer of the Year honor in London on October 22, 2009.
She soon earned respect from them--and from me--living up to her name, which means 'little lynx' in Russian, said Shpilenok, who took Ryska along for company during his five-month stay in the vast Kronotsky Nature Reserve.
Winner: Animal Behavior, Mammals "Boto Water Polo"
A pair of Amazon dolphins use a floating seed as an opportunity for a "ball game" in a tributary of the Rio Negro, Brazil--helping U.S. photographer Kevin Schafer win top honors in the mammal-behavior category of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest on October 22, 2009.
Winner: Wild Places
"Big Fjord, Little Auks"
A flock of little auks give a sense of scale to the glacial landscape of northeast Greenland, where freshly calved icebergs loom from the mist.
Winner: Young Overall Winner "Clash of the Yellowhammers"
Fergus Gill of the United Kingdom captured the split-second drama of two male yellowhammers fighting over a winter meal of oats to snare top honors in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition's 17-and-under division on October 22, 2009. Seventeen-year-old Gill started planning for his photo in the summer, when he collected sheaves of oats to attract seed-eating yellowhammers to his garden the following February. Once the snows came, Gill spent many hours waiting inside a purpose-built hideout.
To: JoeProBono
Those white Bengal pics in the Daily Mail a month or so ago were awesome.
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:42:16 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: JoeProBono
This could be the post of the year.
Good job.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:45:11 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:46:13 PM PDT
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t1b8zs
To: t1b8zs
You are jesting I hope, these are not photoshopped.
These are very good photographs captured by very patient photographers. The article does not give the identification of the camera used by any of these winners. It would have been nice to know.
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posted on
10/26/2009 4:00:23 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Looking for our Sam Adams)
To: JoeProBono
These pics are not that good - not even sure if any are in focus.
To: JoeProBono
How could the wolf picture win? He didn’t even take it! Anyone can set up a camera with a remote sensor. Besides, what right does he have to mess with the wolf’s dinner? I bet the wolf was torqued when the flash went off.
To: blackminorca
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10/26/2009 4:08:29 PM PDT
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Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: JoeProBono
Just because I'm envious of the accolades you're giving those (breathtaking) shots...I'm going to be obnoxious and post this pic of some Pacific Whiteside Dolphins I took off the northern tip of Vancouver Island (Johnstone Straight).
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10/26/2009 4:09:03 PM PDT
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VR-21
(There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
To: VR-21
I hope you had a dry suit.............
Nice!!
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10/26/2009 4:10:14 PM PDT
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Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: Osage Orange
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10/26/2009 4:12:48 PM PDT
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VR-21
(There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
To: VR-21
I dunno what that means........
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10/26/2009 4:14:04 PM PDT
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Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 4:14:35 PM PDT
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PERKY2004
(Proud Military Wife -- Please pray for our troops!)
To: VR-21
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10/26/2009 4:14:48 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: VR-21
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10/26/2009 4:15:03 PM PDT
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PERKY2004
(Proud Military Wife -- Please pray for our troops!)
To: Osage Orange
http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/images/neo14.jpg
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posted on
10/26/2009 4:16:29 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Osage Orange
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10/26/2009 4:16:59 PM PDT
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VR-21
(There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
To: VR-21
Got it...
Glad you wear one...
I used to surf SoCal...and never went out without a full wetsuit.
WAY...colder where you were.....
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10/26/2009 4:23:45 PM PDT
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Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: blackminorca
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10/26/2009 4:37:58 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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10/26/2009 5:33:01 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Paladin2
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10/26/2009 5:34:45 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Thank you - the overall winner did it for me.
Hugs !!!
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10/26/2009 5:36:26 PM PDT
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Shyla
To: VR-21
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posted on
10/26/2009 5:39:31 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Osage Orange
REally - no excuse on the wolf shot - he knew how much light there was and the distance - should have been a snap.
To: JoeProBono
That is one incredible shot. The eyes, and the framing of the manatee's face by that silt are incredible. Did you take it?
Here's a macro of a juvenile Red Irish Lord I took at the Keystone ferry jetty on Whidbey Island.
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10/26/2009 5:46:00 PM PDT
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VR-21
(There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
To: Shyla
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10/26/2009 5:48:46 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: VR-21
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10/26/2009 5:51:21 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
That is my baby. Odd, her name is Shyla!!!
All she wants is to be hugged....
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10/26/2009 5:53:50 PM PDT
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Shyla
To: PERKY2004
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10/26/2009 5:54:15 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
It is one remarkable shot.
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10/26/2009 5:55:47 PM PDT
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VR-21
(There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
To: blackminorca
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10/26/2009 5:57:33 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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10/26/2009 6:03:46 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: GeronL
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10/26/2009 6:05:59 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:14:48 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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10/26/2009 6:17:42 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:28:12 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:33:34 PM PDT
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snippy_about_it
(Looking for our Sam Adams)
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10/26/2009 6:34:53 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:38:40 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:49:33 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 6:54:42 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 7:03:48 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Hold on buster. I don't think so.............
Yellow fin and flying fish
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10/26/2009 7:10:28 PM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 7:13:42 PM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 7:16:57 PM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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10/26/2009 7:27:31 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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posted on
10/26/2009 7:30:20 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
The Oklahoma State Cheerleaders are a little wild, so I think they fit in.
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posted on
10/26/2009 7:33:23 PM PDT
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Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: All; JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 7:33:36 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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