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Wildlife Photographer of the YearThe Overall Winner? Hungary ’s great talent: Bence Máté, who also won the prestigious “Eric Hosking Award” for young photographers aged 26 and under with a stunning portfolio: Wow, congratulations, Bence! |
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Maurizio Biancarelli won the “Wild Places” category with a glorious image from Plitvice National Park , Croatia that he took on his assignment for Wild Wonders of Europe in the fall of 2008. Other awarded images from the Wild Wonders of Europe collection are the Dalmatian Pelicans by Jari Peltomäki from Lake Kerkini in Greece , which won him a Highly Commended in the “Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife” category. Edwin Giesbers scored in the “Creative Visions of Nature” categroy with “Out of the Blue”, an image from his Liechtenstein mission. Sandra Bartocha bagged a Highly Commended award in the “In Praise of Plants” category for one of her superb orchid photographs from Gargano National Park Italy . Further winners are: Orsolya Haarberg (HC*), Verena-Popp Hackner (HC*), Peter Cairns (RU*), Laurent Geslin (W*), Michel Roggo (HC*) and Tom Schandy (HC*) – all with images from European landscapes and wildlife! And last but not least Christian Ziegler (HC*) with a colibri shot from Panama . (* HC = Highly Commended, RU = Runner-Up, W = Winner) |
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Wild Wonders On Stage
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Plus, several Wild Wonders photographers gave presentations at “WildPhotos” in London this week. If you missed these two and still want to see hundreds of the Wild Wonders of Europe images, here are some upcoming events with Wild Wonders photographers on stage. We would love to see you there! October 29 - 31: GDT International Nature Photo Festival, Luenen – Germany and more to come… |
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Fancy a new Nikon DSLR Camera?Nikon camera kits, Nik Software and fineArt prints are among the prizes of our monthly photo competition. And after 12 months the Grand Prize might take YOU on your own Wild Wonders assignment! Taking part is simple. Enjoy and vote for the shortlisted September entries. Public voting ends October 31! Invite your friends and colleagues! It’s great fun with loads of nice pictures to look at. | ||||||
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For more information contact:
Florian Moellers (Communications Director) t: +491709375789 e: florian@wild-wonders.com, Bridget Wijnberg (Media & Exhibitions Director) t:+447972106839 e: bridget@wild-wonders.com | ||||||
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Wild Wonders of Europe thanks our Main Partners:
…and our many other important partners for their generous contributions and support, all without whom this epic conservation photography project would never have been possible.
Groupe Bayard - Nature Picture Library - Editions de la Martiniere - Conservation International
Sandisk - Gitzo - Life Exhibitions - PAS Events - Art for Conservation - Envirofone - Skogens Konung - Polar Quest - Aunan Lodge - Norway Nature - Artic Media - Islas Canarias - Staatsbosbeheer - European Carnivore Campaign - Convention on Biological Diversity - PEBLDS - Pan Parks - NVN - Birdlife International -TurExtremadura - Nik Software Wild Taiga - Finnature - Noble Caledonia - Flatanger Kommune - Innovation Norway | ||||||
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The Finnish president, Tarja Halonen, obviously enjoys her copy of the Wild Wonders of Europe flagship book that Staffan Widstrand presented to her after his talk in front of a 2,000 sitting audience in Finlandia Hall, Helsinki. His Wild Wonders of Europe presentation was part of the 
