Nature in Focus Photography Awards

Photos courtesy Nature in Focus Photography Award

Here are my favourite winners and runners-up from the latest annual Nature in Focus Photography competition that showcases precious moments in natural history and aims to raise awareness of key conservation issues.

The above image by Hira Punjabi won a Special Mention in the Wildscape & Animals in Their Habitat category: The landscape an animal inhabits and its natural environment. “At sunrise in Hokkaido, Japan, red-crowned cranes move through a veil of mist, their graceful forms resembling brushstrokes on a canvas.”

Animal Behaviour 

Shows animal behaviour and helps us understand the species.

Fish twist and turn to escape sharks in the Maldives.

Animal Portraits

An animal’s physical or other characteristics

Sri Lankan water buffalo with a garland of floating weeds.

Conservation Photography Award

Highlights manmade changes and destruction of natural environments or wildlife, in memory of Ramki Sreenivasan.

A woman prays in the sacred but polluted Yamuna River in New Delhi, India 

Creative Nature Photography

Showcases nature as an art form using a photographer’s creative perspective. 

Austrian snails resting on grass.

Young Photographer

Shot by photographers age 17 and under. Powered by Plaeto.

Delicate damselfly gazes through a hole in a leaf in Sundarganj, Bangladesh.
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