Prizewinning pic from Irish photographer featured in top wildlife shots

Peter Delaney tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his prizewinning picture in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

A PETER DELANEY photograph is one of the 100 in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which is in Ireland for the first time after a spell at its annual home, the Natural History Museum in London.

The Irish photographer’s prize-winning shot is called ‘Showdown’ and depicts a vulture on the edge of a violent scrap for antelope carcasses. Two things immediately struck Delaney when he came upon the ruckus, at a watering hole in southern Africa’s Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park — the revolting stench of rotting flesh and the intense, buzzing sound of flies.