Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards: Best Nature and Wildlife Photographs of 2022
Bee Battle! The most impressive animal and nature pictures of the year
Bizzz-en, What happens in nature!
Source: Karen Aigner / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Hovering bees, gorgeous flamingos and electrified starfish: nature has such views and so much more to offer. Introducing the winners of the 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards!
DrThere is something wondrous in nature – and sometimes nature photographers manage to capture these wonders. This is what they do Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards Clear. British Natural History Museum In London it chose the most touching, breathtaking and exciting images of animals and nature this year for the 58th time. Are you ready for a journey through land, water and mountains? here we are!
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Karen Aigner from the United States
A male bee in Texas competes to mate with a female
Source: Karen Aigner / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
We must have missed that scene in “Bee Movie – The Honey Plot”! Several male bees in southern Texas jostle with each other to mate with a female.
With this dynamic shot, American Karen Wagner was able to establish herself as the best natural photographer of the year. She’s only the fifth woman since the beginning Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards He won the award 58 years ago.
It’s like a swarm of bees “rolling right into the frame,” according to Rose Kidman Cox, chair of the competition jury. “Movement and density appear at the bee level, which turns young bees into big competitors.” press release But he also notes, “Like most bees, it is threatened by habitat loss, pesticides, climate change, and agricultural practices that threaten their nest sites.”
16-year-old from Thailand wins “Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year” award
Bryde whales have up to 370 pairs of gray baleen sheets growing in their upper jaw
Source: Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
‘Beauty of baleen whales’: This is what 16-year-old Kattanyu and Techitanakorn call a photo he took on a boat tour in the Gulf of Thailand. According to the Natural History Museum, the photographer was struck by the color contrast between the whale’s gray whiskers, pink palate, and dark skin.
According to the jury, taking such a photo is not an easy task. According to the tour boat guidelines, the tour boat engine had to be turned off near the whales. So, to take the close-up, Cattaneo had to keep his hands still while the boat swayed due to the bulge.
but that is not all! In addition to the Best Nature Photographer of the Year awards and Best Young Nature Photographer of the Year, there were awards in the single photo categories Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards More winners:
“Puff perfect”: winner in the “Animal Pictures” category
Fabulous! Puffy bustards in front of the camera in the Canary Islands
Credit: Jose Juan Hernandez Martinez/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/JOSEJUANHERNANDEZ
Shooting Star: Underwater Category Winner
The ‘electrified reproductive dance’ of starfish in Japan, according to the British Museum of Natural History
Source: Tony Wu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
“Bat Hunter”: Winner in the “Animal Behavior: Amphibians and Reptiles” category
For this shot, the Mexican photographer had to wait near a cave in the dark
Source: Fernando Constantino Martinez-Belmar / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The Great Hunting on the Cliffs: Winner of the Animal Behavior: Mammals category
Warning! Snow leopard in India preys on a herd of Himalayan ibex
Source: Anand Nambiar / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
“The Listening Bird”: Winner of the “Animal Behavior: Birds” category
Hush! Wren in Colombia looking for food
Source: © Nick Kanakis, Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Celestial Flamingos: Winner in the Natural Handicrafts Category
Fighting altitude sickness: The Japanese photographer had to climb the Chilean Andes to get this surreal photo!
Source: Junji Takasago / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Low Prospects for the Spectacled Bear: Winner in the Habitat Animals Category
In Ecuador, bear habitats are disappearing
Source: Daniel Medros / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
New Life from Toora: Oceans Category Winner: The Biggest Picture.
Southern right whales near New Zealand raise hopes for offspring
Source: Richard Robinson / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
“The Magic Morels” winner of the “Plants and Mushrooms” category
As in one of the fairy tales: the forests around Mount Olympus in Greece
Source: Agorastos Papatsanis / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
House of Bears: Winner in the Urban Wildlife Category
Scary: polar bears have seized a house in an abandoned settlement on the Russian island of Koljuchin
Source: Dimitri Koch / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Dying Lake: Wetland Category Winner
About 75,000 tons of waste flows from Guatemala City into Lake Amatitlan every year. Photographer Daniel Nunez said the aerial shot was a “sad and shocking moment”.
Source: Daniel Nunez / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Battle Stations: Winners in the category “11 years and under”
Two caribou in the Italian Alps vie for supremacy. Who do you think won?
Source: Ekaterina B / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
“Out of the Mist”: Winner in the “11 to 14 Years” category
Fog shrouds, punishment rises on a branch in Spain
Source: Ismael Dominguez Gutierrez/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/Ismail Dominguez Gutierrez
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards: This was decided in the competition
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards It is developed and produced annually by the Natural History Museum in London. Danish offshore wind energy group Ørsted has sponsored the competition since 2014.
This year’s winners were chosen in 19 different categories, including three awards for young nature photographers. A total of 38,575 entries from 93 countries were evaluated by an international jury of experts based on criteria for originality, storytelling, technical excellence and ethical approach.
Anyone wishing to see live images can do so between October 14, 2022 and July 2, 2023 at the Natural History Museum, London. The exhibition will also be presented in other cities in the UK and internationally in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA.
And if the above landscapes piqued your interest, you can submit your photos to the 59th Wildlife Photographers of the Year Awards starting October 17 this year. We are excited!
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