The 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition held by the Natural History Museum of London (NHML) and the BBC has a young Greek finalist in the under-10s section whose photo was selected from 42,000 photographs submitted from 96 countries. The shortlist will be on display at the NHML from October 20, 2014, through to August 30, 2015, following an award ceremony on October 21 presented by David Attenborough.

Greece’s entry for the under-10s section

“The Watchful Cheetah” was snapped by Greece’s 8-year-old Leon Petrinos, a young Greek shutterbug, whose work will be featured at the Natural History Museum of London (NHML) along with another 100 winning photos. The image of the female big cat peering through the grass at the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya got the young boy into the BBC and NHML’s under-10 category for the best Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Other photos that were shortlisted:

Herfried Marke’s Skating on Sunlight captured bugs skating on dark water creating pockets of light in a forest pool in Styria, Austria.

Jasper Doest’s the Elegant Crowd snapped demoiselle cranes in a vast gathering.

Bernardo Cesare’s Kaleidoscope photographed a crystal formation using photomicrographs to study rocks and minerals

Matthew Smith’s Sailing By caught a floating colony of four kinds of organisms, dependent on each other for survival.

Lukasz Bozycki’s photographs of an abandoned bunker built by Germans in the Puszcza Piska Forest in WWII are eerie thanks to the lighting (see the detail of the bat hanging from the ceiling). Titled Winter Hangout

Marc Montes’ Snake Eyes shows a large grass snake from Spain.

David Clapp’s Magic Mountain was snapped in Iceland and caught the intensity of the aurora light just as it changed formation.