Steve Winter from US won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 award with a picture of an elusive snow leopard on a night time prowl. The image was captured during a 13-month quest to snap the perfect photo of the endangered species in its hostile habitat high in the mountains of India’s Hemis National Park [more on BBC]
The winning photo by Steve Winter (via BBC)
The competition, now in its 44th year, is run by BBC Wildlife magazine and London’s Natural History Museum. An exhibition of the best images from the 2008 competition opens to visitors of the Natural History Museum, London, on October 31.
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awsome, awsome photo of the leopard hunting in the snow at night! Love those big cats.
the snow makes the picture look really nice.
the leopard’s face is so cute!
The leopard looks…somewhat fake? Have to agree that, it is a very pretty picture.
Emilie… sometimes night photography does make a photo a bit ‘unreal’ because of all those contrast/exposure etc. technical thingy.
It is sort of sureal looking. Afer determining what that cat’s frequent paths were (and they do travel certain routes regularly), he obviously set some sort of lighting up in advance because a flash of some sort would have surely scared the cat off imediately. Against the black nnight sky it looks like a painting. I’m guessing he took several shots as the cat was passing up over that hill judging from where the cat is in the right part of the frame.
He probably had to wait many days and many hours in that spot for that cat to finally approach the area with any lights present. Just a guess. But anyway, it’s an incredible photo of a rare sighting of a snow leopard.