Wild Life Photography

Each week we’ll be giving you a theme that you can submit a photo for, and we’ll choose our favourite to be featured on the Nature TTL website. Participating in these assignments will be a great way for you to force yourself to push the boundaries of your photography and improve together as a community on the website. Week 114: Urban Nature Our theme this week is  Urban Nature . This week we would like to see your images of nature in unexpected places, living in and making use of the man-made world. Fauna or flora, show us what you can find in your city, town, or even on your street. We can’t wait to see what you photograph! 

Professional wildlife photographer David Lloyd has scooped this year’s LUMIX People’s Choice Award from the  Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018  competition. The heart-warming image depicts a moment of calm between a pair of male lions. Around 16,000 people voted in this year’s award, and Lloyd’s image, titled  Bond of Brothers , came out on top. A shortlist of 25 images, selected by the Natural History Museum in London from over 45,000 images submitted to the 2018 competition, was put to the public for voting. The image will join the  Wildlife Photographer of the Year  exhibition, currently residing in the Natural History Museum until 30th June 2019. It is likely that the two adult males are brothers, displaying a greeting to each other by rubbing their heads together for around 30 seconds. Lloyd’s winning entry. Nikon D800E + 400mm f/2.8 lens; 1/500th sec at f4.8, ISO 500. “I’m so pleased that this image did well, because it illustrates the emotion and feeling of anima

Ethiopia is a relatively overlooked country amongst the wildlife photography community. Whilst it’s home to many of Africa’s “typical” safari animals, I was in pursuit of its more elusive creatures back in May 2018. Seeking sanctuary at the top of Ethiopia’s mountain ranges, the Ethiopian wolf now numbers at only 500 individuals and is found nowhere else on the planet. Despite a dainty fox-like appearance, they are more closely related to grey wolves than they are to our familiar red foxes. The Ethiopian wolf’s ancestors were once found over a far wider area than they are today, back when Africa was colder and their favoured afro-alpine habitat was more common. As East Africa warmed up, they were forced up Ethiopia’s towering peaks, where they can now be found on the high plateaus. Here they’ve now specialised to feed on high-altitude rodents and, whilst still social pack animals, they split off during the day to hunt rats individually. The giant mole rat; a wolf’s favourite pre