A RARE predator brutally snatching a flamingo, a huge lion and a stunning ray all scooped gongs at this year’s Nature TTL Photographer of the Year competition.
The world-wide competition gathered over 8,000 spell-binding pictures from across the globe, with the winner receiving a £1,500 cash prize.
The competition was won by American aspiring wildlife photographer Dennis Stogsdill, whose photo “A Cat and Its Prize” was snapped at Lake Ndutu, in the Republic of Tanzania.
While in the Serengeti, he received word that a serval was hunting birds alongside the shore of the 40-mile lake.
After racing across, he found it was in fact the usually nocturnal Caracal, hunting the flamingos feeding in the shallows.
It started hunting within a minute of them arriving and shortly after he captured his award-winning photo as it walked off with its prize in its teeth.
Ladakh mountain range in India. Credit: Sascha Fonseca
