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The astonishing Nature Conservancy Photo Contest winners

By Rich Haridy
June 23, 2018
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The Colima volcano erupting at night, a winning photograph in the Landscape Category
Hernando Alonso Rivera Cervantes, Villa de Alvarez, Mexico / The Nature Conservancy
Stallions Playing: The Grand Pize winning photograph from Camille Briottet
Camille Briottet, Lyon, France / The Nature Conservancy
A general judge favorite: "A line of camels doing its evening strolling - walking into human habitat onto the road. It was taken in 2018 during a desert trip."
Ngai Leng Toh / The Nature Conservancy
A winer in the Cities and Nature category, called Reclamation, taken in the United Arab Emirates
Jesse Yang / The Nature Conservancy
Second Place Overall is called The End Is Near. Taken in Iceland
Andre Mercier, Los Angeles, California / The Nature Conservancy
The Colima volcano erupting at night, a winning photograph in the Landscape Category
Hernando Alonso Rivera Cervantes, Villa de Alvarez, Mexico / The Nature Conservancy
Overall Third Place winner, called Frog Hug, taken in Arkansas
Terra Fondriest / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Water category, called Her Majesty, taken in Australia: "A plastic bag in its natural habitat, the ocean"
Aristo Risi / The Nature Conservancy
People's Choice winner, titled Watching You, Watching Me
Megan Lorenz / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, the Great White Lion
Gerhard Van Der Westhuizen / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, the Ica desert in Peru
Jeremias Thomas / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the People and Nature category, Slender Slots, taken in the narrow slot canyons of Utah
Tanner Lantham / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, called Stargate Cave, taken in Sardinia, Italy
Mauro Mendula / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Redwood Sanctuary, taken in the dwindling old growth redwood forests of Northern California
Patrick McDonald / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Water category, Serenity, a waterfall in Iceland
Jeremy Stevens / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Wildlife category, The Hunter, a great white shark hunting in the water off Mexico
Roberto Moccini Formiga / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Wildlife category, Polar Bear, taken in Nunavut in 2017
Florian Ledoux / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Playing With Sealions, taken in the Galapogos
Tracey Jennings / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, A Forca Do Mar
Renata N. Studart Do Vale / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Light as a Feather, a Yellow Warbler in Ontario
Chris Kingdon / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Last Orange Lights, Santa Maddalena, Italy
Anselmo Hoffman / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Stripes on Stripes, zebras in South Africa
Nadia Sheikh / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Hoping for a Prince
Mikey Scarlett / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Cites and Nature category, My Home My City, Hong Kong under Lion Rock
Kwok Kui Andus Tse, Wong Tai Sin / The Nature Conservancy
Receiving a judge's special recognition award, Welcome to my Humble Abode, a gnat on a toadstool in Scotland
Duncan McNaught / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Landscape category, Floating in the Dead Sea
Aline Fortuna / The Nature Conservancy
Receiving a judge's special recognition award, La Pacha Mama
Ruben Dario Mejia / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the People and Nature category, Waterfall Wonders, taken at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
Harry Randell / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the People and Nature category, Vama Veche Sunrise, taken in Romania
George Bufan / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Water category, Meeting of Alligators
Jorge Andre Diehl / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Ao entardecer
Renata N. Studart Do Vale / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Ubiquitous, dolphins in Hawaii
Aashish Maskey / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Cosmic Caney Cane, taken at night in Nevada
Dustin Gregory / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Sunrise Swim, King penguins in the Falkland Islands
Carl H / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Icy Reflection. an iceberg in Iceland
Stephen Dean / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, The Kingfisher, the kingfisher hunting in a local fishpond in Croatia
Petar Sabol / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Smile, the wettest desert in the world, in Brazil
Marcio Cabral / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Perfect Flake, a snowflake caught in a young girl's hair
Kathleen Greeson / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Super Blue Blood Moon, in Yosemite Valley
Kyle Helmond / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Landscape category, Namibian Curves
Paul Zizka / The Nature Conservancy
A winner in the Cities and Nature category, Autumn in the Big Apple, the new World Trade Center
Yonca Ables / The Nature Conservancy
Receiving a judge's special recognition award, Lava Explosion
Elyse Butler / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, Frozen, a squirrel in Canada
Allison Smith / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, An Elephant's Eyelash
Michael Bolte / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, First High Tree Climb
Priscilla Morris / The Nature Conservancy
A judge's pick, St John's Fog, the bridge in Portland
Jarred Decker / The Nature Conservancy
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The Nature Conservancy recently revealed the winning photographs from its massive global contest to find the most glorious images of nature across five categories. The winning photograph from French photographer Camille Briottet, illustrates the majesty of two wild Stallions frolicking in the mud.

The annual contest garnered a record number of entries this year, totaling over 57,000 photographs from 135 countries. Bill Marr, director of photography for The Nature Conservancy, highlighted the magnificent breadth of the contest saying, "We have wonderful entries from all over the world, from beautiful Western landscapes to squirrels in a backyard in Austria. Photography is a common language for all."

Stallions Playing: The Grand Pize winning photograph from Camille Briottet
Camille Briottet, Lyon, France / The Nature Conservancy

The entries spanned five categories: People and Nature, Landscape, Water, Cities and Nature, and Wildlife. As well as three overall winning images, there were three top picks from each category cited, plus three more "Special Recognition" awards and an overall People's Choice Winner.

The winning images offer a sublime perspective on all sorts of natural events from a truly astounding shot of a volcano erupting at night, to the People's Choice winning image of a touchingly wise red fox in Newfoundland.

A winner in the Water category, called Her Majesty, taken in Australia: "A plastic bag in its natural habitat, the ocean"
Aristo Risi / The Nature Conservancy

The rules of submission stress anything digitally altered beyond standard optimization will be disqualified. Other submission criteria also stipulated no imagery of captive animals or images that would suggest damage to the environment caused in the process of gathering the photograph. These strident rules ensure the images in the competition are perfect encapsulations of natural moments in time.

Take a look through the gallery to see all the winning images in this remarkable contest.

Source : The Nature Conservancy

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Rich Haridy
Rich has written for a number of online and print publications over the last decade while also acting as film critic for several radio broadcasters and podcasts. His interests focus on psychedelic science, new media, and science oddities. Rich completed his Masters degree in the Arts back in 2013 before joining New Atlas in 2016.
1 comment
ljaques
Yet another beautiful collection. My faves: Colima Volcano, Last Orange Lights, Her Majesty (wink), Perfect Flake, and Blue Moon Yosemite. I want a 4' x 6' giclee of Colima in my living room.
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