Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Don’t miss your chance to enjoy and enter inspirational images

Closing date for the 2010 exhibition: 11 March

Just weeks remain to see the very best photographic images of nature from the world’s most prestigious photographic competition, Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The 2010 exhibition showcase closes at the Natural History Museum on18 March. Tickets can be booked online at www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto. A highlight of the arts calendar, the annual exhibition of award-winning images stimulates engagement with the diversity and beauty of the natural world while engendering a sense of awe, wonderment and respect. After it closes at the Natural History Museum in London, the exhibition will continue to tour prestigious venues nationally and internationally.

The global search for the most inspirational and provocative nature photography has begun. Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 is calling on photographers of all ages to enter images that reveal the natural world as it has never been seen before. If you haven’t done so already, images can be entered online at www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto

Now in its 47th year, the competition is an international leader in the visual representation of the natural world. This spring, a select team of industry-renowned judges will spend weeks in a darkened room, carefully scrutinising tens of thousands of entries. Their challenge: to whittle down to the very best of the best. The competition offers photographers a chance to win a share of the £24,500 prize fund. Successful image are also featured in a hardback commemorative portfolio book as well as a special supplement to the November issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine. All commended and winning images are then showcased in an international exhibition that debuts at London’s Natural History Museum in October, before touring venues around the world.

For further details about the competition, categories, rules and prizes, please visit www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto