A rare photo of a Siberian tigress hugging a fir tree has won this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. It took Russian photographer Sergey Gorshkov 11 months and a range of hidden cameras to click the picture of a Siberian tigress hugging an ancient Manchurian fir tree in the Russian Far East.
''Shafts of low winter sun highlight
the ancient fir tree and the coat of the huge tigress as she grips the trunk in
obvious ecstasy and inhales the scent of the tiger on resin, leaving her own
mark as her message. It's also a story told in glorious colour and texture of
the comeback of the Amur tiger, a symbol of the Russian wilderness,'' one of
the judges said.
"The lighting, the colours, the texture - it's like an oil painting. It's almost as if the tiger is part of the forest. Her tail blends with the roots of the tree. The two are one," WPY chair of judges Roz Kidman-Cox told BBC News. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.
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