Incredible Winning Photos From The Nature Photographer Of The Year 2020
Overall Winner: ‘Jurassic Park’ By Roberto Marchegiani
While traveling is not on the table at this point in our pandemic lives, looking at nature photography can also provide a form of mental escape. Various studies have shown that it has soothing effects and helps our brains that are on their way to 2020-induced overdrive to calm down.
But luckily, the annual Nature Photographer of the Year (NPOTY) has just announced its winners of the 2020 competition. The judges chose from 19,547 images submitted from over 95 different countries, which made it a record for this competition.
The winner of the contest became an Italian nature photographer, Roberto Marchegiani, who impressed the jury with a mystical image of a giraffe titled “Jurassic Park.” “This image has a fairy-tale quality that goes far beyond a wildlife document,” Magdalena Herrera, director of photography for Geo, France, and the chair of the jury praised the winner.
So let’s take a look at all the amazing winning photographs that show the spellbinding nature around us as seen through the lens of the artists.
More: Nature Photographer Of The Year h/t: boredpanda
Category Black & White: Highly Commended, ‘Birch Columns’ By Kirsi Mackenzie
Category Mammals: Highly Commended, ‘Heavenly Showers’ By Neelutpaul Barua
Category Birds: Highly Commended, ‘Lone Egret Among Fall Colors Of The Cypress Swamp’ By Rick Beldegreen
Category Mammals: Runner-Up, ‘Splash!!!’ By Antonio Leiva Sanchez
Category Animals Of ‘De Lage Landen’: Winner, ‘The Apocalypse’ By Bart Siebelink
Category Other Animals: Runner-Up, ‘Take Care’ By Yuhui Hu
Category Underwater: Highly Commended, ‘Big Blue’ By Paul Goldstein
Category Black & White: Highly Commended, ‘Caught In A Blizzard’ By David Gibbon
Category Animal Portraits: Runner-Up, ‘Contact With The Dwarf Minke’ By Craig Parry
Category Birds: Highly Commended, ‘Storm Brewing’ By Oscar Diez
Category Other Animals: Highly Commended, ‘A New Immersion’ By Ruben Perez Novo
Category Black & White: Runner-Up, ‘Black Walnut’ By Franka Slothouber
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Black & White: Winner, ‘Constellation Of Eagle Rays’ By Henley Spiers
Category Plants And Fungi: Winner, ‘Dead Forest’ By Radomir Jakubowski
Category Mammals: Highly Commended, ‘Golden Light With Impala’ By Artur Stankiewicz
Category Man And Nature: Winner, ‘Hope In A Burned Forest’ By Jo-Anne Mcarthur
Category Animal Portraits: Winner, “I Can Pass?” By Adriana Claudia Sanz
Category Landscapes: Winner, ‘Il Bosco Incantato’ By Stanislao Basileo
Category Other Animals: Winner, ‘Nature’s Pitfall’ By Samantha Stephens
Category Man And Nature: Highly Commended, ‘Newspaper’ By Wei Fu
Category Animals Of “De Lage Landen”: Highly Commended, ‘Red Deer In Oostvaardersveld’ By Andius Teijgeler
Category Black & White: Highly Commended, ‘Red Deer In White’ By Kevin Berghmans
Category Underwater: Runner-Up, ‘Striped Hunter’ By Karim Iliya
Category Underwater: Highly Commended, ‘The Ice Grin’ By Dmitry Kokh
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Animal Portraits: Highly Commende, ‘Big Small’ By Manuel Enrique González Carmona
Category Birds: Winner ‘Brambling Togetherness’ By Andreas Geh
Category Landscapes: Runner-Up, ‘Electric’ By Joshua Cripps
Category Underwater: Winner, ‘In The Hiding’ By Miloš Prelević
Category Natural Art: Highly Commended, ‘Insect Diversity’ By Pål Hermansen
Category Yought 10-17 Years: Runner-Up, ‘Morning Lek’ By Levi Fitze
Category Birds: Runner-Up, ‘Restless Sea’ By Jiří Hřebíček
Category Natural Art: Highly Commended, ‘Sound And Vision’ By Alessandro Carboni
Category Man And Nature: Highly Commended, ‘Swans In A Bathtub’ By Napat Wesshasartar
Category Underwater: Highly Commended, ‘The Birds’ By Isoon Tepsaskul
Category Plants And Fungi: Highly Commended, ‘The Earthern Mattress’ By Swapnil Deshpande
Category Plants And Fungi: Highly Commended, ‘Timothy Polen Spread’ By Pål Hermansen
Category Natural Art: Winner, ‘Trapped’ By Andrea Pozzi
Сategory Man And Nature: Runner-Up, ‘Vigneti’ By Stanislao Basileo
Category Landscapes: Highly Commended, ‘Wild Is The Wind’ By Alessandro Carboni
Category Natural Art: Highly Commended, ‘Woods In A Pod’ By Yuan Minghui
Category Landscapes: Highly Commended ‘A World Away’ By Oliver Smart
Category Other Animals: Highly Commended, ‘Ant In Strange Landscape’ By Paulien Bunskoek
Category Yought 10-17 Years: Highly Commended, ‘Capercaillie’ By Levi Fitze
Category Other Animals: Highly Commended, ‘Cocos Island’ By Sergio Rivero Beneitez
Category Plants And Fungi: Runner-Up, ‘Enchanted Forest’ By Kevin De Vree
Category Yought 10-17 Years: Highly Commended, ‘Evening Walk’ By Giacomo Redaelli
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Landscapes: Highly Commended, ‘Flyover’ By Jie Fischer
Category Birds: Highly Commended, ‘Gannet Colony’ By Petr Bambousek
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Plants And Fungi: Highly Commended, ‘The Perfect Marriage’ By Andrea Pozzi
Category Natural Art: Highly Commended, ‘When The Wind Blows’ By Alessandro Carboni
Category Animals Of “De Lage Landen”: Runner-Up, ‘Enjoying The Early Morning Sun’ By David Pattyn
Category Animals Of “De Lage Landen”: Highly Commended, ‘Party Animal’ By Andrew George
Category Yought 10-17 Years: Highly Commended, ‘The Lynx King’ By Ismael Domínguez Gutiérrez
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
Category Yought 10-17 Years: Winner, ‘Tiny Details’ By Lili Sztrehárszki
Category Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award: Winner, ‘Border Wall Project’ By Alejandro Prieto
