Possible fraud in BBC WPY competition!
Finland’s largest nature magazine Suomen luonto (”Nature of Finland”) published an article with the pictures, that says that there may be an fraud in this years Veolia Environnement Wildlife photographer of the year competition! Under suspect is the overall winner picture of the whole competition and the judges of the WPY-competition are investigating the evidences of the possible fraud.
The pieces of evidence are apparently collected by a group of Spanish photographers. They are conserned about the reputation of all Spanish photographers and, thus, want to bring the evidence in public.
”But until one bit of evidence can be verified I don't think it's possible to accuse the photographer of cheating. It's not 100 percent”, Kidman Cox states.
English version of the article with evidence pictures can be found here -> http://www.suomenluonto.fi/bbcs-natu...ud-allegations