Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014

摘要

We present here an exclusiveBb preview of images from this | year's premier collection of 100 photographs. They were chosen from more than 41,000 entries from no fewer than 96 countries. Together they represent the competition's great variety in terms of subjects and ways of seeingthe natural world.The 2014 competition also marks two milestones: the launch 50 years ago of Wildlife Photographer of the Year by the forerunner of this magazine, and 30 years of collaboration between BBC Wildlife and the Natural History Museum.Over the past half a century the field has changed dramatically, mainly because of advances in technology - digital photography can capture a new level of behaviour and detail - and through the interchange of visual ideas as photographers see each other's work through the competition, the annual collections and via the internet.