/nginx/o/2020/10/14/13411552t1h3de0.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "The most impressive shots on the planet: Winners of the 2020 Nature Photo Award – Abroad – News")
London Natural History Museum photo contest “Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020” has selected this year’s most spectacular nature photo from 49,000 images. TVNET offers to get acquainted with several categories of winners and the beautiful, often harsh stories that underlie them.
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FOTO: © Sergey Gorshkov, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Sergei Gorshkov – the main prize
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Duchess Catherine of Cambridge, who is the patroness of the Natural History Museum, has announced Sergei Gorshkov, the author of the Embrace photo, as the winner of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. It shows an Amur tiger tightly encircling an old spruce trunk in Russia’s Far East.
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It took the author 11 months to capture the grand shot, and it was taken with a hidden camera.
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FOTO: © Liina Heikkinen, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Lina Heikinen – the new nature photographer of the year
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The picture “The Fox That Caught the Goose” brought Lina Heikinen the title of New Nature Photographer of the Year. Foaming the feathers, the fox refuses to share the benefits with his five brothers and sisters.
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Līna has grown up in a family of nature photographers and spent a lot of time as a child in the expanses of her native Finland. Lina took the winning photo when she was 13 years old.
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FOTO: © Mogens Trolle, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Mogens Trolle – animal portraits
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A young Kalimantan monkey wins his eyes and turns his head, as if showing his brown hair, blue eyelids and prominent profile. Males of this species have much larger noses than females and tend to become so long in their lifetime that they hang over their faces and have to be pushed aside when eating. The endangered species is found only in Borneo and other nearby islands.
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FOTO: © Jaime Culebras, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Jamie Kulebras – amphibians and reptiles
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The transparent continental frog feasts on a spider at the foot of the Andes, in northwestern Ecuador. The recently discovered species is characterized by detached fingers and yellow spots on the back. The critically endangered species is found in only one small part of the world.
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FOTO: © Jose Luis Ruiz Jiménez, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Jose Luis Ruiss Himeness – Bird Behavior
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To take this picture with a crested grebe family in western Spain, the photographer had to spend several hours immersed in water. Reproducing from carnivores, the hounds of the crested grebe leave the nest a few hours after hatching, riding on their parents’ backs. There, they spend two to three weeks feeding and asserting themselves to become good swimmers.
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FOTO: © Shanyuan Li, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Shuan Yuan Li – Mammalian Behavior
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The Manulu family photo taken in the Tibetan highlands is the fruit of six years of high-altitude photography. These cats are unique, hard to find and mostly active at night, so photography required careful planning and a good dose of success. The photographer observed the little manules and their mother went down almost four kilometers to hunt pike – small rabbit-like mammals.
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Manulu’s flat head and coat color help to hide and hunt in the open, and the thick coat protects from frost in winter.
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FOTO: © Gabriel Eisenband, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Gabriel Eisenband – plants and mushrooms
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The photo was taken in Ritakuvablanca, the highest peak of the Eastern Andean Cordillera in Colombia. White arnica grows high in the Andes and has adapted to the great cold, overgrowing the leaves with white threads. The photographer captured them a moment after sunset, when the surroundings are surrounded by bluish light – it seems that the landscape would fit into a fantasy film.
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FOTO: © Luciano Gaudenzio, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Luciano Gaudencio – the different environment of the Earth
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Hot red lava flows in the fire of Mount Etna, surrounded by a cloud of volcanic gases. To capture this unforgettable landscape, the photographer had to climb for several hours from the northern part of Mount Etna on the ash-covered rock formations formed in previous eruptions. Climb is possible only to the heat “wall”, but from there opens a view of
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The author of the photo figuratively describes it as “an open wound on the rough and wrinkled skin of a giant dinosaur”.
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FOTO: © Kirsten Luce, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Kirstena Lusa – photojournalism
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The photo shows a performance of a Russian circus in an ice hall in Kazan, Tatarstan. The trainer’s outstretched hand signals to the polar bear that he has to stand on his hind legs, but in the other hand she holds a stick. The wire muzzle attached to the bear protects the trainer, the net covered with the rink – the spectators. Visitors to shows do not usually think about the living conditions of circus animals. For example, a polar bear probably spends almost all the time between shows in a narrow transport cage.
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Russia’s “Circus on Ice” is the only known circus troupe that owns polar bears. The female bear shown in the picture is one of four polar bears captured at the age of two in the Land Archipelago of Franz Joseph in the Arctic Ocean. Cloudberries have been performing for spectators for 18 years.
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The photographer considers this to be the most symbolically shocking depiction of wildlife exploitation he has taken, as the icon of the Arctic’s wildlife is seen in an unnaturally submissive state.
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FOTO: © Paul Hilton, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Paul Hilton – photojournalism report
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Pork macaques are energetic, social primates that live in large flocks in the wildlife of Southeast Asia. As a result of deforestation, macaques have to forage on agricultural land and are eliminated. Mothers are most often shot, but their babies are kept chained until they can be sold as pets, to zoos or for medical research. The photographer pretended to be a potential buyer for the animal trader and photographed the sad macaque in the bottom of the Bali bird market, where illegal wildlife trade is taking place out of prying eyes. Such sites facilitate illegal international trade and the spread of exotic diseases.
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FOTO: © Alberto Fantoni, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
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Alberto Fantoni – rising star portfolio
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At the top of Sardinia’s steep cliffs, Elonora’s falcon male brings prey to his lady. This species of bird of prey winds its nest in the cliffs of the Mediterranean coast. This is done at the end of summer – during the migration of small migratory birds. Once the babies are plucked, the whole family goes to spend the winter in Africa, mainly in Madagascar. In the “leanest” months of the year, Eleonora’s falcons feed on large insects.
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The photographer noticed that the male did not give up his game without a fight.
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