National Geographic chose the best photos of the year
The magazine National Geographic called the winners of the Prize "Best Wildlife Photographer of 2016." The main prize was received by the Frenchman Greg Lenker, who shot Sardin. The photographer will go to the 10-day expedition of the National Geographic to the Galapagos Islands. "Medusa" represents the best works of the award.
Photo: Greg Lecoeur / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Kosyak Sardin” - the main award, as well as the first place in the categories “Place” and “Action”. During migration along the wild shore in South Africa, Sardins become victims of dolphins and boobs. Predatory birds monitor the hunting of dolphins, and then from a 30-40-meter height dive under water and grab sardin. Photo: Scott Portelli / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "Treating Medusa". Special mention of the jury in the category "action". The photographer Scott Portelly found a turtle eating a jellyfish in Byron-Bay (Australia). Later the second joined her. Animals arranged something like tug of a rope. Photo: Lawrence Chia Boon OO / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Raven Persuns the Malay Fisherman”. Special mention of the jury in the category "Portraits of animals". The picture was taken in Singapore in early September. According to the photographer, the persecution lasted less than two seconds. Photo: Jacob Kaptein / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Struggle for Life”. First place in the category "landscape". Jacob Kaptain took photographed this beech in the forest (Netherlands) several times. To create this picture, it stood in cold water for more than an hour. Photo: Alessandro Gruzza / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Wild Rall”. Second place in the category "landscape". The photograph shows a mountain range of dolomite Alps (Italy). The picture was taken in the early days of winter. Photo: Michael oʼneill / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Proud Mommy”. Second place in the category "Portraits of animals". The female spotted perch-pavin protects the fry in the freshwater lake (Miami, Florida). Photo: Chris McCann / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "Outside the Facebook headquarters". Second place in the category "Environmental Problems". In the area of the San Francisco bay, salt is actively mining. This salt pond Chris McCan took off next to the headquarters of Facebook. Photo: Mario Suarez Porras / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year Studio Dead End. Third place in the category "Portraits of animals". The dead end resting in the rain was photographed on the island in Wales. This island is not inhabited, so birds are not afraid of people and let them in. Photo: Sergej Chursyn / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Forest Fire on the Beach”. Special mention of the jury in the category "Ecological Problems". The picture is taken on the beach of Son Serr on the island of Mallorca. A woman watches a rapidly flared fire. Photo: Vadim Balakin / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "Life and Death". The first place in the “Environmental Problems” category the remains of the White Bear were found in the north of Spitsbergen. It is not known exactly why the bear died - from hunger or from old age. But judging by the state of teeth - from hunger. Global warming and melting of ice affect the population of polar bears. Photo: Eleanor Ryder / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “toxic vanity”. Third place in the category "Environmental Problems". The photographs are enlarged plastic particles contained in the eyeliner. The picture was taken using a reflecting photographic microscope at the University of Falmouth (Great Britain). Photo: Santiago Borja / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year Pacific Storm. Third place in the category "landscape". The picture was taken in June 2016 a few kilometers from the southern coast of the city of Panama Bezlunna night; The only source of light is lightning inside the storm. Photo: KEN BOWER / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “American flowers”. Special mention of the jury in the category "Environmental Problems". The US Air Force base in the east of Greenland was empty in 1947. In this territory there were military transport, dynamite boxes and 10 thousand barrels with aviation fuel. Photo: Zsolt Kudich / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Big White Hoods take off”. Third place in the category "action". In 1921, only 31 pairs of large white herons remained in Hungary. But the efforts to save the species were not in vain: now more than three thousand pairs of birds live in the country, and the population continues to grow. Photo: Patty Waymire / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "No Snow, Nor Ice?" The third incentive prize in the category "Ecological Problems". A lonely bear sits on the shores of Barter Island (Alaska). There is no snow on the island, although at this time of the year it should already be. Photo: Jose Pesquero Gomez / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year “Friendship does not know the differences”. Third place in the category "Portraits of animals". Two praying mantis sits on the same branch. The picture was taken in the village of Las-Rosas, the province of Madrid, Spain. Photo: Tori She-Sostberg / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year second place in the category "Action". The tornado approaches the houses in the municipality of Rei, Colorado. After Tornado passed by, the photographer went down to the houses and made sure that all the tenants were in order. Photo: Varun Aditya / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "I will drag you into the grove." The first place in the category "Portraits of animals". The picture was taken in the rain forest in the state of Maharastra in India. Photo: Prasenjeet Yadav / 2016 National Geographic Nature PhotoGrapher of the Year "Happy Green Meteor". Special mention of the jury in the category "landscape". The photographer put the camera on the road in a mountain chain West Gata (South India) and set it up so that it took 999 15-second photographs. He went to bed, and in the morning he decided to look at the shots-on one of them he noticed something green. It turned out that this is a rare green meteor.
