Best of 2023 Photo Challenge Finalists Revealed

[@PangolinWildlife]

Which image do you think will win the top prize? Put your pick in the comments below and lets see!

[@rockfishmiller]

Darn tough picking a favourite out of those, but, i quite like the Croc reflective, but the solo Elephant grabs me too.

[@allyde5603]

So many amazing pictures! Im so jealous of them! i love the first on with the Polar Bear mama and cub, and the one with mama lion carrying her cub

[@PangolinWildlife]

Both great shots....but if you had to chose one?

[@jamesmertens2731]

There are a lot of wonderful photos in this series. The first one (Polar bear & cub) stood out the most to me. Good luck to all the entries.

[@moiraleyder4795]

Woaw , so beautiful pictures ! Nice choice ! 👍

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thank you very much!

[@pruimj]

Again these are astonishing images. I do not envy the jurors, they have an impossible task to pick a favourite. Are you sure these are AMATEUR images? As each and everyone of them looks like being made by a PRO. (This is meant as a compliment.) If I am forced to pick one image I will decide on the elephants at 2:10 because of the originality of the composition. Despite the fact that the elephant in the foreground is very large the eye is immediately drawn to the elephants in the back. And the combination creates a sense of majestic animals in a vast landscape.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yep. All amateur...amazing isnt it!

[@MJGOLDHEART]

Wow, they are just amazing. I used to live in SA years ago and this series has really given me so many emotions. Nature and wildlife should be something to be cherished for sure. Some of these photos have moved me to tears and the music, what is the music please? The Polar Bear photos are so beautiful.

[@DanBarnett-hw7sg]

All absolutely fantastic, can't pick one but these four get equal votes. Polar bear and cub, backlit polar bear, cormorant and flying fish, and the flying bat. Well done to all.

[@BircanHarper]

Thank you for choosing my image as finalists. I cannot wait to see who won the challenge.😊

[@stefankar]

Very nice video. Many thanks my friends

[@PangolinWildlife]

Many thanks!

[@JoanCarroll]

I love the first polar bear photo, the elephant at 3:30, and the croc at 4:48

[@PangolinWildlife]

Nice choices!

[@dellzeph]

fabulous images

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yes they are!

[@nevillelance294]

Congratulations to everyone. My vote for best of the bunch goes to the black and white image of the Gemsbok fending the leopard off her calf. Incredible movement and mood.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Leopard or cheetah!

[@zumulko]

My fav: B&W elephants at 2:09

[@PangolinWildlife]

Very nice pick!

[@LesleyMattuchio]

These are next level images, every one of them. Makes me want to work harder on my craft and I have won awards, but these are so achingly beautiful. Good luck in choosing, glad I don't have to judge....

[@PangolinWildlife]

Its a very difficult round to judge for sure!

[@gig_goer9465]

So thrilled to see my photo of the leopard in the tree at 2:06 amongst such amazing images! I would love to know how many entries you received this year?

[@PangolinWildlife]

Congratulations!

[@rockfishmiller]

You should be, well done!

[@african.origins]

Top-quality images! All the finalists may be proud of themselves. A difficult task to choose a victor, even difficult to choose a top 3 out of the list! But the African Origins Team has sat down and after watching the video about 25 times has decided that the Puffin is the picture that stands out to us. Amazing Light in the background matching the shading of the Puffin and the crisp head with the wings in motion blur. Well done to whoever got this shot!

[@gvan4967]

I picked the puffin too!!!

[@donnacameron-prosser120]

Everyone of those photographers should be incredibly proud of their absolute talent and fantastic image!! I'm going to vote for the Mum and baby polar bear.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Its a very endearing shot!

[@johndunne870]

I am glad that you guys have to choose the best from all these great photos as I could not. I got as far as my top 10 favourites.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks for sharing!

[@daxatrivedi3437]

Super duper.

[@heleenmoulder6082]

I love the Tusker

[@PangolinWildlife]

Beautiful eh?

[@larry.mathewson]

Many images and all very cool. Tough one to judge for sure. I'm partial to the first image with the polar bear and cub. Thanks for sharing.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ritazietsma9041]

wow!! Incredible images. Tough to judge I'm sure.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Tough indeed!

[@jenrood]

Love the Bat

[@PangolinWildlife]

Cool shot!

[@raffscallion6639]

Wow, you know it's a special occasion when Guts and Toby are in-person together! 😉

[@PangolinWildlife]

It sure is!

[@patrickraymondnowotny2085]

The bat wins for me

[@PangolinWildlife]

Incredible shot!

[@TheWildlifeGallery388]

Night Kestrel on a perch, Backlit Polar bear followed by head down Polar Bear going uphill

[@PangolinWildlife]

Good picks...

[@heleenmoulder6082]

Wow lions drinking water..

[@doggonedean5314]

1st photo; Polar bear mom and cub.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Nice choice

[@annereid2364]

Cant pick. Too many fabulous images, dont envy your job at all

[@PangolinWildlife]

Its tough for sure!

[@thomastuorto9929]

5 seconds s photo is not enough time. Any chance you print each at 24”x 33” & send them to me to judge?😏 Good luck to those who have entered these fantastic photos!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Nice try!

[@jillpoleskie4032]

Some Absolutely spectacular shots. Shot at 1:41 of two birds nd the leopard with a ? Dik dik in its mouth otherwise all fantastic

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yep i think thats a dikdik!