Winners of Nature’s Best Photography

Through January 2013, the Natural History Museum is home to stunning photographs of wildlife around the world

((clockwise from upper left) Jon Cornforth; Alex Mody; Rolf Nussbaumer; Phillip Colla; Andy Rouse)

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May 23, 2012

Winner of People in Nature: Bodyboarder

"I captured this image of a bodyboarder performing an aerial maneuver at the Hoek beach near my home. Like anything you choose to photograph, knowing your subject helps create a great image—and I spent many years bodyboarding when I was younger. The power of the wave, the color and flow of the water, and the precise timing of the bodyboarder’s ‘inverted air’ made an image that clearly shows man’s interaction with nature." - Photographer Lee Slabber

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