See winning photo, and other finalists
The 13 photos below are all spectacular examples of the wild and fascinating nature all around us. Some are of species we all know and love, others we might see once in a lifetime – if we’re lucky. And all of them are finalists in the 2017 Graeme Loader Photo Gallery and Calendar Contest.
Last year year, we asked you to submit your best photos of wildlife. The response was overwhelming. More than 1,300 of you sent in incredible, adorable, majestic, unusual, ephemeral images of wildlife in their natural habitat.
Check them out and share them with your friends.
Grand prize winner
Humpback whale diving, photo taken from a kayak
Finalists
A brown bear catching a salmon trying to make its way up Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park
Star turtle
A pair of Northern Gannets photographed during a courtship display
Polar bear in den
Delicate dragonfly on hollyhock flower
Endangered Great Lakes piping plover
Loon shakes off water at sunrise
Atlantic puffin holding a wild iris in his beak to present to his mate for nesting material
Curious Pine Marten peeking at me from behind a tree in Algonquin Provincial Park
A frog, doing what frogs do best
A pair of elks
A fox pup in Brookfield, Nova Scotia