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Marine photographer wins top competition
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Underwater photography provided the overall winner and a number of section wins in the 2006 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.
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The annual event, organised by London's Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife magazine, attracted some 18,000 entries from 55 countries this time around. It is one of the world's most prestigious photo competitions.
An exhibition of the competition's 92 winning and commended images is now on display at the Natural History Museum, until 29 April next year. It will tour British and other European cities through 2007, along with venues in the USA, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
The overall winner and Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Swede Goran Ehlme, for his unusual shot of a walrus whipping up sediment on the seabed as it feeds on bivalve shells. The picture also won the competition's Animal Behaviour: Mammals section.
When he is not taking stills, Ehlme is a professional underwater cameraman whose CV includes filming in Greenland for the BBC's current Planet Earth series. He also worked on the BBC's 2002 Blue Planet series. Other marine photographers who feature in the exhibition with section wins or commended images include Tibor Dombovari of Hungary, Michael Aw of Singapore, and Gavin Parsons and Alex Mustard of Britain.
A book of all the exhibition images, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 16, is published by BBC Books, at GBP25 from selected bookshops or direct from the BBC Shop.
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