10 Award-Winning Wildlife Images That Depict Nature In Extraordinary Ways

The winners of this year's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition have been announced and Canadian amateur photographer Don Gutoski has taken the top title. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London and this year, more than 42,000 entries were submitted from across 96 countries. 

As well as the overall winner, there's a Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner both of whom are selected from 18 individual category winners. You can see Don Gutoski's winning image below along with other category winners that depict nature in extraordinary, eye-catching and sometimes heartbreaking ways.

If you'd like to see the images on display, the fifty-first Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum on 16 October. 

Don Gutoski / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Ondrej Pelánek / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Britta Jaschinski / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Amir Ben-Dov / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Edwin Giesbers / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Jonathan Jagot / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Juan Tapia / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Michael AW / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Pere Soler / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Richard Peters / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015