I’m delighted to be able to say that one of my photos has been selected for a Commended Award in the Behaviour: Mammals, category for the 2012 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The email arrived a few months ago that my image Snow Pounce had been successful, but of course the news was under strict embargo until now. And what a long three and a half months it’s been!
Snow Pounce, Commended, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012
Prints available to buy here
Snow Pounce was one of the photos from a sequence that I took of a red fox mousing in Yellowstone National Park back in 2010. Regular readers may well remember the sequence, although this particular frame I didn’t look at as the best at the time, instead concentrating on another frame. However, I did have a niggle that this was the quirkiest of the bunch (and indeed several others had pointed this out too) so decided this year to enter it. And thankfully, it was the right decision!
You can also read my experience of the incredible 2012 awards dinner, held until the dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, here.
