These incredible photographs are all worthy of winning first prize for the competition of Wildlife Photographer of the year 2014. Here are 50 of the best entries and nominees. Our favourite is the monkey on a iPhone! which is appropriately named ‘Facebook Update’ by Marsel van Oosten.
‘Apex Predators’ by Justin Black
‘April Maidenhair’ by Bob Keller
‘Around Sigma’ by Filippo Rivetti
‘Australian Sea Lion Pups’ by Michael Patrick O’Neill
‘Bad Hair Day’ by Gordon Illg
‘Baltic Groyne’ by Jens Rosbach
‘Barracuda Swirl’ by Alexander Mustard
‘Bat Festival’ by João Paulo Krajewski
‘Beechnuts Rhythm’ by Sandra Bartocha
‘Big Mouth’ by Adriana Basques
‘Bramblings’ by Jose Manuel Grandio
‘Caiman Night’ by Luciano Candisani
‘Dantes Inferno’ by Karen Lunney
‘Dawn Lift-Off’ by Jack Dykinga
‘Diamonds’ by Malgorzata Ksiazkiewicz
‘Facebook Update’ by Marsel van Oosten
‘Feel Safe’ by Juan Carlos Mimó Perez
‘Flirting Bearded Seal’ by Audun Rikardsen
‘Great Peacock Moth Caterpillar’ by Leela Channer
‘Heavy Rain’ by Pierluigi Rizzato
‘Helical’ by Frederic Brioris
‘Hide Away’ by Brittany Fried
‘Innocents Betrayed’ by Hilary O’Leary
‘King Penguins and Fur Seals’ by Denise Ippolito
‘Kings into the Dark’ by Stanley Leroux
‘Kittiwakes’ by Werner Bollmann
‘Ladybird Spider’ by Carsten Braun
‘Las Fauces de la Noche’ by Juan Jesus Gonzalez Ahumada
‘Leaping Gentoo Penguin’ by Paul Souders
‘Moonlight Climber’ by Alexander Badyaev
‘Move!’ by Gerry Pearce
‘Old Cloths’ by Claudio Contreras Koob
‘One Eye On You’ by Mohammad Khorshed
‘Piraputangus’ by Adriana Basques
‘Pure Magic’ by Raviprakash S S
‘Red Deer and Cranes’ by Marek Kosinski
‘Red Kangaroos at Waterhole’ by Theo Allofs
‘Rowan in a Game of Mirrors’ by Elio Della Ferrera
‘Sea Lions Dreams’ by Christian Vizl
‘Sentry Duty’ by Neil Aldridge
‘Shoaling Reef Squid’ by Tobias Bernhard
‘Shoulder Check’ by Henrik Nilsson
‘Sprinting at the edge of the forest’ by Antje Kreienbrink
‘Startled by Stargazer’ by Jennifer Jo Stock
‘Stretching’ by Stephan Tuengler
‘Too Big But So Tasty’ by Alain Ghignone
‘View of Tokyo’ by Olivier Puccia
‘Whats This’ by Peter Mather
‘Winter Hares’ by David Tipling
‘Yellow-Necked Mouse’ by Carsten Braun
