Tag: nature photography

29 Winners of World Nature Photography Awards 2022 Feature Crocodile’s Flaming Eye Claiming Gold

Jens Cullmann staked out the largest pool for his dramatic shot of an enormous and dangerous reptile. The photographer from Germany would capture the brightly-pigmented flaming iris of a crocodile, otherwise invisible within the thick mud; and this would garner Cullmann the prestigious title of Nature Photographer of the Year 2022. The unforgiving dry season…


Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 Winners Released—Contemplate Circle of Life and Death

“Tour boats had been watching the young whale for days as it slowly moved through the bay, appearing sicker and slower with more shark bites over its body day after day.” The scene was visceral. While making its annual migration north along Ningaloo Reef off Australia’s northwest coast, the fledgling-adult humpback, maimed and ailing, inched…


Wilderness Photographer Creates Rather Than Captures a Sense of Place

Writer Henry David Thoreau said, “We can never have enough of nature,” and landscape photographer Erin Babnik delivers on that sentiment through her painstakingly captured images. Babnik hails from California, but she and her camera equipment travel all over the United States and the world with the goal of recording every jot and tittle of…