GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year

[Paul Whitbread]

Award season is in full swing, and the latest bunch to reveal their winner is the Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen (Society of German Wildlife Photographers). A group that had previously gone under my radar, but it's definitely a collection worth viewing. The winner is British underwater photographer Alex Mustard, with a creative long-exposure of fish feeding.

http://new.gdtfoto.de/en/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2013/

Clearly slow-shutter speeds are popular with judges this year, and I reckon it's a worthy winner that (for me at least) is more immediately successful than the choice of WPotY.

[Jerry van Dijk]

Wow, that is some super high quality photography. I like the focus of the jury for some more abstract images. Thanks for sharing this link.
I see a lot of images that were also in WPotY.

[Marina Scarr]

Thank you for posting this, Paul, and for making us all aware of this amazing competition. I really enjoyed going through the winning photos and there were a few that really blew me away.

[Greg Basco]

Some fantastic stuff. I actually always like the images of this competition even better than Veolia WPOTY.

Cheers,
Greg