Bees competing to mate. Polar bears pottering around a deserted house. These are the winning images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Polar bears pottering around a deserted house, magical morels on Mount Olympus and the final moments of a much-loved mountain gorilla are just some of the winning images in theBut the honor of receiving the competition's much coveted grand title award for 2022 goes to American Karine Aigner for her photo called"The big buzz.
Roz Kidman Cox, chair of the judging panel, described the close-up as"rolling straight into the picture." "The sense of movement and intensity is shown at bee-level magnification and transforms what are little cactus bees into big competitors for a single female," she said in a news release Tuesday. Aigner's"bee-level" close-up displays the desperation of a depreciating species threatened by climate change, pesticides and habitat loss, the press release adds.
She is the fifth woman to be awarded the grand title award in the competition's 58-year history, organizers said.
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