Photo contest winner Shell Wildlife

2006/10/19 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Irudiak/Soinuak

A walrus looking for food at the bottom of the sea. The British photographer Goran Ehlme was about to reject and delete the photo when he saw it on the digital camera. He was submerged and, of course, did not see the small screen of the camera with his glasses well. At that time it seemed to him that only a cloud of dust was visible and almost wiped it. But when he had his finger on the button he realized that there was something else in the image: the head of the walrus. Organized by the magazine Wildlife of the BBC and the Natural History Museum of London, this year more than 18,000 photographs have participated.