Published 23:43 IST, October 18th 2019

The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 2019

Chinese Yongqing Bao and Indonesia's Cruz Erdmann named Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 in a ceremony at London's Natural History Museum on October 15.

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Chinese Yongqing Bao was named Wildlife Photographer of Year in a ceremony at London's Natural History Museum on October 15. winners of Wildlife Photographer of Year competition have been anunced during a ceremony at London's Natural History Museum. Yongqing Bao, who belongs from Chinese province of Qinghai was awarded prestigious wildlife photographer of year 2019 award. He captured a striking moment after stalking and watching orable interactions between a Tibetan fox and a marmot for a while. Bao beat out over 48,000 entries from 100 countries to take top prize. im was captured in China's Qilian Mountains in early spring.

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Youngest wildlife photographer of year 2019

A fourteen-year-old Cruz Erdmann was named as youngest wildlife photographer of year 2019 with his beautiful portrait of an iridescent big fin reef squid captured on a night dive in Lembeh Strait off rth Sulawesi, in Indonesia. two ims were selected from 19 category winners which depict beautiful and incredible creatures of nature. Yongqing and Erdmann's ims will be on show in lightbox displays with 98 or spectacular photographs. exhibition will commence from October 18 at Natural History Museum. It will n tour across UK and or countries which include Cana, Spain, United States, Australia, and Germany.

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Cruz found an incredible creature in just 3 meters of water

Cruz Erdmann was on an organised night dive in Lembeh Strait off rth Sulawesi, Indonesia. Being an avid photographer and speedy swimmer h been asked to hold back from main group to allow slower swimmers a chance to take pictures. re he found an incredible creature in just 3 meters of water, a pair of bigfin reef squid. y were engd in a glowing, rapidly changing communication of lines, spots, and stripes of various shes and colors. One immediately flew from spot but or one, probably male, hovered around for Cruz to capture its glowing underwater show.

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