728th Show & Tell Competition: Land Animals in the Wild - WINNER

[kzaret]

First, I was pleased to see so many entrants to this week's contest, let's keep it up! Most people had entries I really liked, making this difficult as ever to choose winners. I was biased towards images of animals that depicted their faces and personalities.

Runners up, in no special order:

Jeff B., gorgeous on many levels


Arnie P., what a sharp bee nicely captured doing work


Allen H., Lots of owls in this contest, this one looks restful and content


Jola D., this goat seems to be saying, wait a minute, what's back there?


Markus G., amazing colors on this creature


Luxun, I like the open beaks, quail singing here


Carol P., daily visitor, looks like he/she is going to get something


Alick S., who doesn't like these Macaques? this one is thinking about something. A close call for the second place category today: macaques!!!


And the winners are:

Third Place: Walter K., inquisitive hummingbird and I know how hard it is to get these critters to sit still long enough for a sharp shot like this!


Second Place: Hugh, cool hairdo and looking right at us. An unusual perspective.


First Place: Jarek M., sharp and close up, what's the bird concentrating on? Kind of has a punk haircut. While I am not a fan of the unusual crop here, the intensity of the bird's look is what I was looking for in this contest, so I give the win to Jarek!

[cjphipps_servo]

Thanks much for the runners up!

[hughjones]

Thanks for second place. Great images everyone! I took the image at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It struck me how the monkey was amused or looking through me - as if it were a reincarnated priest.

[luxun54]

Thanks, Ken, for the HM.... a whole lotta expressive animals here!

[mclew]

I enjoyed looking through all the photos for this competition! Congratulations to the HM's and the winners, I liked that wild bird's expression a lot too.

[jarekm]

Thank you for the first place. It is unexpected, I agree, cropping could be better but the emu just poked his/her head above the fence, and I did not want to have it included in the image.
The photo was taken in the Healesville Sanctuary, if you are ever around Melbourne, I encourage you to visit this place to see the iconic Australian animals.

I will post the next competition shortly.

Jarek

[peterschmidtab]

Thank you for the HM. Nice theme and plenty of excellent entries.

[jolka]

Thanks, Ken, for the HM. Many cool photos here.