European Wildlife Photographer 2008

I am happy to pronounce that my image ' Floating Hearts' has received the ' highly commended' nomination in the European Wildlife Photographer of the year 2008 contest, in the category of ' Plants '.

The award winning photographs will be presented to the public in an exhibition at the International Nature Photography Festival in Lunen, Germany and abroad. In addition an exhibition catalogue with all photographs, that have been awarded a prize, will be published.

You can see the winning images of 2008 from October 24st on www.gdtfoto.de.

On an airless early morning I walked through the polders. The mist was dissolving slowly through the warmth of the sun. The graffica

'On an airless early morning I walked through the polders. The mist was dissolving slowly by the warmth of the sun. The graffical lines of the reed reflection in the glassy water of a small wetland caught my attention. Then I saw this floating heart between the reed and I knew this was the right spot I was searching for'. n an airless early morning I walked through the polders. The mist was dissolving slowly through the warmth of the sun. The graffical lines of the reed reflection in the glassy water of a small wetland caught my attention. Then I saw this floating heart between the reed and I knew this was the right spot I was searching forsun. The graffical lines of the reed reflection in the glassy water of a small wetland caught my attention. Then I saw this floating heart between the reed and I knew this was the right spot I was searching foreflection in t

 

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My picture ' Barbary macaque in a cage' has won the first prize in the category ' Men and Nature' in the European Wildlife Photographer of the year 2006 contest.

The ' European Wildlife Photographer of they year' contest is organized since 2001. Photographers from all over Europe are entitled to participate. The winning pictures are chosen out of more than 7.000 pictures sent by nearly 500 photographers out of 19 European countries. The competition aims to highlight the excellent quality achieved by European nature photographers and wants to present the innovative and distinct style they use to focus on the living things around us.

The award winning photographs will be presented to the public in an exhibition at the International Nature Photography Festival in Lunen, Germany and abroad. In addition an exhibition catalogue with all photographs, that have been awarded a prize, will be published.

You can see the winning images of 2006 from October 31st on www.gdtfoto.de.

' Djemaa el - Fna square is the world famous square and touristical focal point of Marrakesh, Morocco. It's lively all day with food stalls, story tellers, snake charmers, acrobats and performing monkeys. Most tourists like to go on a picture together with a monkey. They only see a nice picture and do not see, or do not take notice of the horrible life behind the scenes. This young barbary macaque in the cage caught my attention, it was looking very sad and unhappy. With this picture I hope to make people.especially tourists, aware of the horrible life they put this animals through'.