The Best Wildlife Photographs of the Year

Over 48,000 photos were entered in the Veolia Environnement contest; these 10 were among the most stunning

  • By Smithsonian.com
  • Smithsonian.com, November 02, 2012
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emperor penguins porcupine deer in landscape tiger polar bear penguins

(Paul Nicklen / Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012)


Frozen Moment

Paul Nicklen (Canada)
Winner
Category: Behaviour - Birds

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Comments (9)

its amazing

Amazing photography...

Different world...come from my tropical environmental...Indonesia...very interesting..

How cool!!!

What an amazing creature

What an amazing photo

Wow beautiful photo!!

Amazing photos of some of gods beautiful creation.The detail and color it looks like the could jump off the page!

As a former subscriber to Smithsonian, I can truly say that It is one of my favorite publications. All of these submissions are perfect, I love the red fox and this photo is awesome. It is my favorite.



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