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PHOTO STORY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

THE VISION
JAN VAN DER GREEF,
THE NETHERLANDS
Winner, Black and White

Perfectly balanced, tail opening
and closing, wings vibrating,
an eastern mountaineer
hummingbird siphons nectar
from a red-hot-poker plant
flower. Jan stationed himself
in the garden of his hotel in
southern Peru for several days
to capture this strange vision.

HELLBENT
DAVID HERASIMTSCHUK, USA
Winner, Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles
David spotted this remarkable
moment while drifting down
Tennessee’s Tellico River: a
northern water snake clamped
tightly in the jaws of a hungry
hellbender – North America’s
largest aquatic salamander,
growing up to 75cm long.

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