Brian Hampton
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Lion
Okavango Delta, Botswana

It's time to see the winners of the 2008 edition of the The Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards. This is certainly one of the most regarded award in the nature photography field, it is organized by The Nature’s Best Photography magazine and selected images will be displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC . As I did with the 2007 edition I'm going to show you those winners which are related to water or snow and I invite you to visit the official website, to see all the the winners and read interesting backstage of the pictures


Florian Schulz
CONSERVATION PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Sea Otters
Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA


Bruce Yates
OCEANS WINNER
Lemon Shark
The Bahamas


Chris Linder
INDIGENOUS CULTURES WINNER
Evenki Reindeer Herder
Kystatem, Siberia, Russia


Daniel Ewert
LANDSCAPE WINNER
Edith Creek
Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA


Andrew Rouse
ANIMAL ANTICS WINNER
Macaroni Penguins
South Georgia Island


Zsolt Kudich
BIRDS WINNER
Common Buzzard
Kiskunság National Park, Hungary


Karen Garbee
ART IN NATURE WINNER
Waterfall
Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand


Jenny E. Ross
WILDLIFE WINNER
Twin Polar Bear Cubs
Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada


Lukasz Warzecha
PEOPLE IN NATURE WINNER
Sunset Over Telendos
Kalymnos Island, Greece


Jeremy Woodhouse
ENDANGERED SPECIES WINNER
Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
Qinling Mountains, China


Robert Knight
SMALL WORLD WINNER
California Poppy
Sinkyone Wilderness, California, USA