Winners of the 44th Annual National Wildlife Photo Contest

Mark Wexler This is the 44th year that National Wildlife has celebrated the wonders of the natural world through our annual photographic competition. Selected from more than 29,000 entries, the 2014 award winners include a Grand Prize recipient who spent several years perfecting a unique photographic technique that resulted in a one-of-a-kind image of grey herons and another winner who grabbed his camera just in time to take a rare picture of praying mantis nymphs hatching on his…