The Natual History Museum is sponsoring the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, I was reading some news on the BBC website earlier and they listed the winners of the 2008 competition. It's worth a look as there's some stunning images here, but along with each image is a description of the cameras used. I was surprised to see that of the top five images four were shot with Canon cameras an EOS Rebel XT (EOS 450D in Europe), EOS 400D, EOS 40D and EOS-1Ds Mark II.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see the use of some real world lenses in use, EF-S 10-22mm for the winner, EF 300mm f/4L IS + 1.4x extender for the young wildlife photographer of the year winner and 100mm macro and the ideal wildlife lens the EF 500mm f/4L IS USM.
You can see the images in an exhibition near you in the coming yyear as it tours the UK and other countries. If you like wildlife photography it's got to be almost essential viewing. Find out when and where on the Natural History Museum site here.
Want more? The Guardian newpaper has a gallery of some of the highly commended entries and here three of the five images were taken with Canon cameras. I was wondering if the image of the called Sandpiper congregation, by Arthur Morris, USA is the same Arthur Morris as the www.birdsasart.com one?
At least 2009 competition entries start in January so plenty of time to shoot your cat with a Canon...
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Thursday, October 30
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