Mutti Hildegunde Freund and Yogi in Laboe
Stella and Mutti with U-Boot in Laboe
Only a week back from Tonga, we had to quickly pack for our European trip. Our visit to Germany finally happened and we stayed with mommy Freund for almost a month in her brand new abode in Kiel! Many bratwursts later, we happily enjoyed and celebrated being in lovely Germany, autumn of 2007.
Yogi with his winning image of Pavlova taken in the Great Barrier Reef
Yogi being interviewed beside his winning image of a GBR dwarf Minke Whale at the Natural History Museum in London
Yogi’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning image projected at the Natural History Museum in London
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards ceremony – dinner under the dinosaur
The height of our visit was the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOTY) in the London Natural History Museum. Attending the awards ceremony with dinner under the dinosaur was something hard to forget.
Yogi’s podcast talk at the Natural History Museum in London
Yogi gives away fotocards to young fans
Yogi autographs his fotocards
The winning minke photograph kept Yogi busy with podcast and Nature Live webcast interviews at the museum. The kids in the audience were very excited with the stories behind each picture. Winning a Foto Card from Yogi made them doubly attentive! The activities relating to WPOTY made sure to seal this special time in our memories.
Pavlova wins at Natures-Best Photo Awards at the Smithsonian Museum
Photo credit: Gary Hopkins, AOL
Another amazing event we unfortunately could not attend was the awards ceremony of Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Winning the first prize for the OCEANS category meant having the minke whale eye image blown up to 2 metres!
