Photographer Nayan Khanolkar Bags BBC Wildlife Photographer Award For Alley Cat!

On Wednesday, the 42-year-old Nayan Khanolkar was awarded the prestigious Urban Wildlife prize in London. He won the award for his picture titled, The Alley Cat.  Indian conservation photographer Nayan Khanolkar has been named wildlife photographer of the year in the urban wildlife category by the Natural History Museum, London, along with the BBC. The committee selected Khanolkar’s photograph, The Alley Cat, which features a leopard in Mumbai, for highlighting how human beings and the big cats co-exist in the suburban Aarey milk colony.

The Alley Cat

Image Source : Nayan Khanolkar

The winners of the prestigious annual Wildlife Photography were announced recently and the results are quite stunning.  Tim Laman was named the winner of the competition, for his image that captured a Bornean orangutan in the Indonesian rainforest. The nominations were as follows :

Entwined Lives

4000

All the images will be displayed at the Natural History Museum in London tomorrow. Post exhibition, these photographs will tour the world.

The Pangolin Pit

5760

The Moon And The Crow

5184

Road To Destruction

3398

Pursued By Fire

5760-1

End Of The Line

4908
Eviction Attempt

4019

Wind Composition

4928

Requiem For An Owl

4928-1
Snapper Party

5653

Star Player

4928-2