POTN Wildlife Photographer of the year

This competition is a way of showcasing your best photographs from the last year. Its all in the name of fun so please don't take it too seriously! Everyone is welcome to enter and I look forward to seeing all the great submissions!

BB

Timetable:

• Wildlife (Closes 3rd October)
  
• Sports (Closes 30th November)

• The photo must have been taken in the 12 months preceding the closing date
  
• The photo must not have been entered in the 2004 POTN photographer of the year contest (NB. I’m aware that the last contest only closed in December. Therefore, this rule is so we get a fresh new set of photos.)
  
• Each member may submit one photo to each of the contests
  
• This photo may be changed at any time up to the closing date for submissions
  
• Post processing - nothing that substantially changes the original composition of the image.
  
• Photos must be no larger than 800 pixels at the longest dimension. Also, please try and keep the filesize down to under 200k if possible to make viewing the gallery easier for modem users.
  
• No framing of pictures, text or copyright notices.
  
• Send your photos to potncontest at gmail dot com
  
• Please include your username when you send me the photo

View the photos here:
http://www.pbase.com/s​am_blackie/wildlife

• Following each closing date, there will be two or three weeks of voting. The exact length will be a practical decision based on the number of photos.
  
• Given the large number of expected entries, I’ll adopt the same voting method as the last POTN POY contest. The photos will be grouped into sets of approximately 10. The winner of each group will be put forward into a play off. A third or fourth round of voting will be used if there are a sufficient number of entries.

Three fantastic photos online!

ooops, forgot the link:
http://www.pbase.com/s​am_blackie/wildlife

New photos online

Two more stunning photos online!

Remember, only two weeks left until the contest closes!

4 new photos online

Two more photos online.

I'm away all next week so there won't be any more photo uploads until I return on the 24th September.

5 new photos online. Remember only 5 days left before the contest closes

Remember, the competition closes on friday....

Oh and 4 more fantastic photos online

I realise that this question should have been asked earlier but what do we define as wildlife for this category?

1: True wildlife photos shot out in the nature?
2: Photos of wildlife in the nature or in captivity but photographed in a way it is not visible that the animal is kept captive? (which several of the photos clearly is).

In my opinion it should have been #1 but we can't change that now so I guess it is #2 definition that applies?

Thanks for raising this tommy. In all honesty it is not an issue that I had considered. I think I can see why you have raised it, because photographing tiger in the 'wild' brings in a whole different set of skills that you wouldn't need in a zoo - survival for example

My general approach with all these competitions is to, as far as possible, leave the definition of the topic up to the photographer.

I should add that I don't think you should necessairily hold yourself to #2. Just off the top of my head, people might want to show the bars of the cage in order to demonstrate the impact that captivity has on wild animals. I'm sure there are lots of other possibilites as well.

Another photo online

Two more photos online