Nov 1, 2008

Chinese Wins Wildlife Photo Contest


LONDON, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese photographer Zhu Yongkang is among the winners in the 44th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition held here.
Zhu's "Snow Swans" won the "Animals in their Environment" category in the world renowned competition held by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Zhu, who is from Wuxi City in east China's Jiangsu Province, took his winning image at Rongcheng Swan Lake Nature Reserve in eastern China. In the fairy-tale image, the whooper swans are forced to find food in snowy fields. He captured a moment when one swan took off into the squall, followed moments later by the others. article continues here