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Shell, The Oil major, has declared the winners for the 2007 edition of the best wildlife photography awards.

Some absolute stunning photos.

Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards -2007

Taken in Botswana, this picture of a bull elephant kicking and spraying mud in a water-hole wins Ben Osborne from the UK the prize of Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007

Shell Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Patrick Corning was only nine years old when he captured this image of three squirrel monkeys during a holiday with his parents in Costa Rica

Canadian Paul Nicklen's aerial image of male narwhal whales feeding was the winning photo in the competition's Animals in their Environment category

The artistic composition of this photo by David Tipling of two black grouse was specially commended by the judges, who spent three months sifting their way through more than 32,000 entries

Russian Sergey Gorshkov's close-up of a brown bear won the Animal Portraits category of the competition, organised by BBC Wildlife Magazine and London's Natural History Museum