Bornean Orangutan, Gold Prize, Animals in their habitat group. Experienced male orangutans have significant, … [+]
Photo: Thomas Vijayan, Canada – WNPA
The successful images for this year’s Entire world Character Images Awards, WNPA, competition are an remarkable reminder of the splendor of our treasured earth.
The contest, which drew entries from 20 nations around the world across 6 continents, intends to rejoice the world’s finest mother nature photographers as they spotlight the earth’s miracles, unshakable in the perception that images can influence people today to see the world from a various viewpoint and lead to transforming their behavior to shield instead than plunder the earth.
The grand prize of Earth Character Images Awards went to Amos Nachoum from the United States for his breathtaking image of a leopard seal about to capture a defenceless Gentoo penguin (down below).
The successful photographer, who requires a funds prize of $1,000, waited patiently for several hours on the distant island of Plano, off the Antarctic Peninsula, for the proper minute at low tide when the seals stealthily enter a lagoon and search for prey.
“Seeing these photos are unable to fail to inspire 1 to do every little thing to secure this fragile world of ours,” explained WNPA co-founder Adrian Dinsdale.
The competitors awards 14 categories, from landscape photography to animals in their habitats, photojournalism and humans’ conversation with mother nature.
The WNPA competitiveness has partnered with Ecologi to plant a tree every time an entrant tends to make a submission to the opposition.
Total Winner
Going through truth, Leopard Seal & Penguin, Gold winner, Actions Mammals classification and general winner.
Photograph: Amos Nachoum, U.S.A – WNPA
“For hours, I waited for the minimal tide to arrive alongside a shallow lagoon on a remote island off the Antarctic Peninsula,” mentioned Nachoum. “Like clockwork, the leopard seal arrived just just before lower tide. When a youthful Gentoo penguin arrived near, the seal turned its head at lightning pace, catching it by its ft and taking it to deep h2o.
“To my shock, it enable go of the penguin two times. Just about every time, the seal chased right after the penguin as if it was experiencing the activity. The terrified penguin tried out to escape as the game continued. But quickly, the finish came.”
Animal portraits
Loved ones Moment, Gold prize, Animal Portraits classification.
Photograph: Tom Vierus, Fiji – WNPA
Lengthy-tailed macaques take pleasure in the heat of every single other for the duration of a sizzling working day in Bali, Indonesia. These animals display incredibly similar actions to people, such as having fun with just about every other’s corporation.
These macaques are accustomed to human beings and are generally found about temples wherever they are inclined to feed on foodstuff introduced by the locals.
Brown bear mother and her cubs, Silver Animal Portraits category, South Kamchatka Sanctuary, Russia. … [+]
Image: Neelutpaul BaruaIndia, India – WNPA
Willpower, Gold prize, Black and White classification
Photo: Vince Burton, U.K – WNPA
The climate conditions ended up extreme for the scarce ‘blue morph’ Arctic fox. But that did not appear to be to prevent it from hiking through a snowstorm.
Moms Love, Silver Prize, Black and White category.
Image: Avanka+Fernando, Sri Lanka – WNPA
A Toque macaque was fed by its mother in Yala Nationwide Park, Sri Lanka.
Animals Actions
Rumble in the Jungle, Silver prize, Habits mammals category.
Image: William Fortescue, United kingdom – WNPA
Two bull elephants sparring with one an additional at the Amboseli Countrywide Park, Kenya.
Vulture and fox feasting on wildebeest, Gold Prize, Habits Birds classification.
Image: Ashok Behera,India – WNPA
A wildebeest’s eyes staying gorged by an African vulture, keenly viewed by an African fox for an prospect to scavenge. Taken at Masai Mara, Kenya.
Purple billed queleas, Silver Prize, Habits Birds class, Selous Recreation Reserve, Tanzania.
Image: Robert J. Ross, U.S.A – WNPA
Black Cormorants, Bronze prize, Habits Birds category.
Picture: Robert Maynard, Uk – WNPA
The solar rose on the Heath Pond lake in Hampshire, Fantastic Britain, its highly effective gentle burning by means of the early morning mist as a Cormorant swam to a nearby boat and climbed aboard, then an additional and then a different and so on. It was a chaotic early morning on the lake.
Pacific tree frog, Gold Prize, Behaviour amphibians and reptiles.
Image: Shayne Kaye, Canada – WNPA
It was the center of a sunny summertime day with harsh mild and minor exercise at a community town park in Canada as this very small Pacific Tree Frog sat on a flower. More evidence that there is definitely no terrible time to head into character with a camera.
Ants Crossing, Gold prize, Conduct Invertebrates.
Picture: Teo Chin Leong,,SIngapore – WNPA
The widespread red ant is ingenious at traversing terrain. When front scout ants come upon a drinking water obstacle, they intuitively variety an “ant-bridge” with their bodies, so that their mates at the back again of the get together can cross.
City Wild and Human Lifetime
Humpback whale, Gold prize, City wildlife group.
Image: Matthijs Noome, U.S.A – WNPA
A humpback’s fluke looks to accentuate the New York City downtown skyline in the length. As water top quality measures and conservation endeavours have commenced to display real results more than the previous many years, humpback whales are getting to be a prevalent sight in New York waters.
Fox in the Netherlands, Bronze prize, City WIldlife categpry.
Image: Alex Pansier, Netherlands – WPNA
Ice cave, Gold prize, Folks and Mother nature class.
Picture: Sabrina Inderbitzi, Switzerland – WNPA
The view from an ice cave in the entirely frozen Lake Baikal in Russia can maintain vehicular surprises. “First I did not like the vehicle and the individuals in the center of my image, but on a 2nd watch I found it just great.”
Capturing the motion, SIlver prize, Men and women and Character category.
Image: Mike Eyett, Austria – WNPA
A scuba diver approaches a university of mackerel in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Character Artwork and Landscapes
Landscape with trees, Gold Prize, Character art category.
Picture: Federico Testi, Italy – WNPA
The natural elegance of San Quirico d’Orcia, in Tuscany, Italy, is accentuated by rolling hills, shapes and tone developed by mild to induce a sense of harmony with the universe.
Dandelions, SIlver prize, Character Art class.
Image: Monika Schneider, Germany – WNPA
Landscape, Gold prize, World Earth’s landscapes and environments group.
Image: Sam Wilson, Australia – WNPA
Touring down random filth streets can give amazing benefits with scenes like this on New Zealand’s South Island.
Deserted household, Gold prize, Plants and fungi category.
Image: Gautam+Kamat, India – WNPA
The entrance to a room inside an abandoned dwelling in Goa, India serves to remind how mother nature can take over what male has left guiding.