{"id":38427,"date":"2025-09-02T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38427\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:49:12","slug":"wasp-on-a-broomstick-and-cobra-faces-a-lion-an-early-look-at-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2025-entries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38427\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp on a \u2018broomstick\u2019 and cobra faces a lion: An early look at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 entries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s Natural History Museum, which runs the competition, will announce the winning images on October 14, followed by an exhibition showcasing 100 standout photos on October 17.<\/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 photo\u00adgraphy, filmmaking, conservation and science.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A dramatic stand-off between a lion and a cobra in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Photo: Gabriella Comi<\/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 it is carrying a caterpillar to feed its young.<\/p>\n

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

Another stunning photo, from Amit Eshel, entitled \u201cInside the Pack\u201d, is an eye-level shot with an inquisitive Arctic wolf pack. It shows five wolves on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, in Canada, one of which are just metres from the camera.<\/p>\n

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

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

\"Fruit<\/p>\n

Fruit bats leave their roost in the ruins of a historical monument in Banda, Maharashtra, India. Photo: Sitaram Raul<\/p>\n

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

He stood in the darkness as fruit bats emerged from a ruin. Using focus and flash, standing beneath the swooping bats, he managed to capture remarkable shots of the creatures in mid-flight.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s competition was won 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 Gross told BBC News at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Natural History Museum, which runs the competition, will announce the winning images on October 14, followed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,133,22129,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-38427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-the-independent","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}