Station Squabble

About

"Station Squabbling" is the name of a 2019 photograph of two mice in a subway station that appear to be fighting by photographer Sam Rowley. The photograph won the Natural History Museum's Photographer of the Year and inspired an image edit.

Origin

In 2019, photographer Sam Rowley submitted a photograph of two mice fighting to the Natural History Museum's Photographer of the Year competition (shown below).^[1][2]

Spread

On December 11th, 2019, Redditor ^[3] Ainsley-Sorsby shared the image on the /r/photoshopbattles subreddit. The post received more than 18,000 points (98% upvoted) in less than about two months (examples below).

On February 12th, 2020, the photo won the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice." In celebration of the victory, the BBC Studios Twitter account tweeted, "Congratulations to @bbcstudios Natural History Unit’s
@SamRowleyPhoto whose snap of two mice fighting on the London underground has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice award." The tweet received more than 52,000 likes and 16,000 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below).

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