ii) High resolution files (preferably TIFF) required for printing should be 8-bit, Adobe RGB (1998) at full resolution, and match the colour and cropping of the JPEG submitted at entry. Please do not upscale. Files must not exceed 500MB. If you are successful, you will be notified in strict confidence. It is a condition of entry, any Award and any prize that you do not disclose the details of any shortlisted or winning entries to any third party. Your entry must be uploaded in JPEG format. High-quality scans of transparencies or negatives are also acceptable. Entries must be received by 11.30am GMT on the morning of Thursday 7 December 2023 ("the Closing Date").

Any entry that cannot be authenticated or is not of an acceptable quality will be disqualified. We reserve the right to ask you to supply a range of ‘before’ and ‘after’ original files for any photograph that requires further authentication. i) between six (6) and ten (10) photographs for the Photojournalist Story Award per story. You may submit up to two (2) stories only to this category. A maximum of six (6) images will be selected by the Jury per story.

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i) commence on the date you are notified of your Award and continue for a period five (5) years; and

ii) employees of either the Natural History Museum Trading Company Limited, the Trustees of the Natural History Museum or if known during the entry period then the Official Sponsor(s).

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Photographs must have been shot within the past five years. The capture date must be after October 2018 and evidenced on request. For the second time, French photographer Laurent Ballesta was announced as this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his otherworldly image of a tri-spine horseshoe crab accompanied by a trio of golden trevallies.