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Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Animals in their Environment - Highly Commended
Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) is the world’s most prominent nature and wildlife photography competition, run annually by London’s Natural History Museum since 1965. It showcases the year’s best wildlife images across multiple categories, publishes a book, and tours globally. Each edition offers a glimpse into where wildlife photography stands today; its stories, emotion, and connection to the natural world.
In 2025, WPY61 received 60,636 entries, the highest ever. And each autumn, the Museum rolls out the red carpet for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, often called the Oscars of wildlife photography. From those entries, only 100 photographs are selected for the exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, opening 17 October 2025. The selection presents a wide range of inspiring images that capture nature’s rich diversity; they spark curiosity about the natural world while underscoring our complex relationship with wildlife and the effects of human impact.
I’m genuinely honored that one of mine is among them this year, and grateful to have a small part in that, so important, conversation – it’s a dream come true.
Vuoden Luontokuva 2025
Birds - Category Winner
Vuoden Luontokuva (Finnish Nature Photo of the Year) is Finland’s most prestigious nature photography competition, organized annually by the Finnish Nature Photographers Association (Suomen Luonnonvalokuvaajat ry). The competition has been held since 1981 and attracts thousands of entries from across Finland and abroad. This year more than 12.000 images were submitted.
Each year, the jury awards prizes in multiple categories such as Birds, Mammals, Landscapes, Plants and Fungi, and Nature’s Art. The competition celebrates the diversity and beauty of Finnish nature, from its vast forests and lakes to its Arctic wildlife and seasonal light, and aims to inspire awareness and appreciation for the natural world.
About the photo: It was a summer evening close to 22:00 in a dense, old coniferous forest. This is the kind of place, and time of the year, where, if you’re lucky, a Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) may be present. I was lucky. The last rays of the setting sun slipped through the canopy and lit a few tree trunks, and one with an owl perched within it. Every so often the light caught its eyes, turning them a stunning bright yellow for only a heartbeat at the time.
I had roughly 20 minutes of usable light, working in brief windows: compose, wait, release the shutter, then wait again as the forest dimmed. Forests like these, largely untouched and still full of life, make moments like this possible. I’m grateful to have witnessed it, and even more so to have captured it before the light finally slipped away.
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