{"id":97168,"date":"2025-08-27T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97168\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:50:08","slug":"an-early-look-at-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97168\/","title":{"rendered":"An early look at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wasp appearing to fly on a broomstick, a cobra facing down a lion in the Serengeti and bats swooping into focus in India<\/a> – these are some of this year\u2019s highly commended Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> submissions.<\/p>\n

The Natural History Museum, which runs the competition<\/a>, is set to announce the winning images on 14 October, followed by an exhibition showcasing 100 standout photographs<\/a> on 17 October.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the event, the museum has released a handful of this year\u2019s top submissions. These images have been selected from a record-breaking 60,000 entries from 113 countries and territories by an international jury of experts across wildlife photography, filmmaking, conservation and science.<\/p>\n

Among them is a picture of a wasp taken by macro wildlife photographer Bidyut Kalita. It appears to show the wasp flying on a makeshift broomstick, but in reality, the insect is carrying a caterpillar to feed its young.<\/p>\n

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A wasp appears to be flying on a broomstick (Bidyut Kalita\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)<\/p>\n

The submission was highly commended in the Behaviour: Invertebrates category.<\/p>\n

Another stunning photo taken by Israeli photographer Amit Eshel, entitled \u201cInside the Pack\u201d, is an eye-level shot with an inquisitive Arctic wolf pack.<\/p>\n

It shows five wolves on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, in Canada, one of whom is just metres from the camera.<\/p>\n

Mr Eshel braved -35C weather to get the shot. He said the wolves came so close he could smell their breath.<\/p>\n

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A pack of Arctic wolves are pictured in Canada (Amit Eshel\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)<\/p>\n

A photo taken by Italian photographer Gabriella Comi, entitled \u201cWake-up Call\u201d, shows the moment a lion squares up to a cobra in the scorching midday sun in the Serengeti National Park. The cobra had been spotted earlier, slithering towards two napping lions.<\/p>\n

Deep in the darkness of a cave in southwestern India, just below Mumbai, photographer Sitaram Raul also managed to capture one of this year\u2019s most astonishing competition submissions.<\/p>\n

Mr Raul stood in the darkness as fruit bats emerged from a historical ruin. Using focus and flash, standing beneath the swooping bats, Mr Raul managed to capture breathtaking shots of the animals mid-flight.<\/p>\n

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Fruit bats emerge from a historical ruin in India (Sitaram Raul\/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)<\/p>\n

Another photo from Sri Lanka shows a lone Asian elephant navigating a waste disposal site. The giant grey animal can be seen wading through the multi-coloured rubbish in Ampara, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The photo was taken by Lakshitha Karunarathna and is entitled \u201cToxic Tip\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s competition was won<\/a> by Canadian photographer Shane Gross for his snapshot of a swarm of western toad tadpoles as they glided beneath a canopy of lily pads in Cedar Lake, Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, the most fun that I can have, the thing that lights me up inside, is to see something new and try to photograph it in the best way I possibly can,\u201d Mr Gross told BBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wasp appearing to fly on a broomstick, a cobra facing down a lion in the Serengeti and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[47823,18989,47824,90,56,54,55,4407,47822],"class_list":["post-97168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-broomstick","tag-lion","tag-photographer","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}