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Where the wild things are
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Veolia Georgia. He explains: “As I was walking
Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the back along the foreshore to the landing
Year exhibition. The competition – organised site, I was looking at the tracks penguins
by the Natural History Museum and BBC were making in the wet sand when a chick
Wildlife Magazine – has attracted a record walked towards my footprints, it seemed to
43,135 entries from 94 countries, up 33 per consider them briefly before moving back
cent on 2008. to the other groups of penguins. I thought
The winning selection of nearly 100 it merely a quirky moment, but later it
images will be showcased at an exhibition became a more poignant reminder that,
opening at the Natural History Museum on however brief and well managed our visit,
October 23 before touring to regional and we are intruding on their environment.”
international venues. The Veolia Environnement Wildlife
One of the works on show is British Photographer of the Year will be
photographer Robert Friel’s Footprints announced on October 22.
(pictured), which was awarded highly The exhibition runs from October 23-
commended in the One Earth category. His April 11 2010 at the Natural History
amusing, but thought provoking photo of Museum, Cromwell Road.
a curious king penguin chick was captured Tickets: adult £9
on the sub-Antarctic island of South www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto/exhibition
Footprints © Robert Friel.
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009
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