National Wildlife Magazine photo contest winners

Here are two of the winners.   Very cool pictures from the National Wildlife Photo Contest.

Robert M. Palmer
Milliken, Colorado
A young swift fox makes a dash for its den, a kangaroo rat clenched tightly in its teeth. Earlier this year, Palmer stumbled upon the kit’s mother and followed her back to her den in eastern Colorado—a rare find, since swift foxes have vanished from 90 percent of their historic range in the United States. Over the next month or so, Palmer, a product manager, returned often to the site, taking hundreds of photos of the young fox family. "Once they got used to having me there, they acted like I was part of the family," he says. Palmer made this digital photo with a 500mm lens and a 1.4x teleconverter.

  
Edsel L. Romero
Cavite, Philippines
While visiting Singapore Botanic Gardens in July 2004, Romero spotted two pairs of mating daylight-flying moths on a single blade of grass. To take the digital photo, the computer programmer lay flat on the ground, inches away from the brightly patterned moths, and used a 180mm macro lens.

See all the winners here.

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