The exhibition shows a wide range of images of wildlife, not only in their natural habitat, such as the winning photograph, by Ben Osborne, of an elephant indulging in a waterhole in Africa, but in urban settings as well, such as Danny Green's skilfully captured photograph of a water vole in a drain hole.
When the contest started in 1964, applicants submitted just 600 photographs. Last year, it drew 32,000 photographs from professionals and amateurs in 78 countries.
The jury for this year's competition included the Hungarian photographer Milán Radisics, whose image of mayflies blooming on the River Tisza was published by National Geographic.
Hungarians have faired well in the competition over the past several years. Bence Máté was just 16 years when he won the Young Photographer award in 2002. He then took the Erik Hosking special award in 2005 and again in 2007 with striking images of Hungary's bird life. One of the winning images shows a sparrowhawk leaning forward to drink from a pool which he captured using a mirror attached to his hide.
Csaba Karai won the One Earth Award with a photograph of an airplane passing in front of the moon, and Márk Somogyi earned an honourable mention in the contest's Urban and Garden Wildlife with a photograph of doves on a cable.
Author: Eszter Götz / Photo: Péter Kollányi (MTI)
See the winning entries in the 2007 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
