A couple of months ago, we posted some of the top images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Wouldn't you know it, the photograph that won the contest wasn't even included in them! The contest winners have now been announced, and the top prize goes to Wim van den Heever for the image above, titled "Ghost Town Visitor." The Grand Title image is of a rare brown hyena framed against a building of an abandoned diamond mine in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. The image also won in the category of Urban Wildlife. Below is the winner of the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
Winner Andrea Dominizi named this photo "After the Destruction." It shows a longhorn beetle witnessing the machinery destroying his habitat. This image also won in the 15-17-year-old category. You can see the winning photos in the different categories here.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is held annually by the Natural History Museum in London, and the best of the 60,000 or so photos entered will be the subject of an exhibition opening Friday and running into July of next year. -via Damn Interesting