The Nature Conservancy is proud to announce the winners by category of our 2021 contest. Check out the images that amazed our judges the most—and the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award, selected by you!
Grand Prize Winner Anup Shah, United Kingdom
MALUI Western lowland gorilla female 'Malui' walking through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in a bai. Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011. © Anup Shah/TNC Photo Contest 2021I like photos that keep dragging you in. The face. Tolerance or bliss. It’s really hard to tell and the insects draw you there.
BEN FOLDS
Celebrity Guest Judge People’s Choice Winner Prathamesh Ghadekar, India@prathamesh.ghadekar
FIREFLIES Just before Monsoon, these fireflies congregate in certain regions of India and on a few special trees like this one, they are in crazy quantity which can range in millions. © Prathamesh Ghadekar/TNC Photo Contest 2021First Place, Landscape Daniel De Granville Manço, Brazil@danieldegranville
DROUGHT Carcass of a Pantanal alligator (Caiman yacare) in the dry soil on the banks of the Transpantaneira highway, municipality of Poconé (Mato Grosso). © Daniel De Granville Manço/TNC Photo Contest 2021Second Place, Landscape Denis Ferreira Netto, Brazil@denisfotos
SERRA DO MAR In a helicopter flight through the sea mountain range, I came across this white cloud cover, which resulted in this magnificent image that resembles the head of a dinosaur. © Denis Ferreira Netto/TNC Photo Contest 2021Third Place, Landscape Jassen Todorov, United States@jassensf
SALT PONDS If you have flown into San Francisco International Airport, you may have seen these colorful salt ponds over the bay. This aerial image was taken while flying my plane. © Jassen Todorov/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Landscape Scott Portelli, Australia@scott.portelli
LIFE COLOUR Lush green mangroves line the mud flats accentuated by the tidal waters and months of rain filling the artesian basin. Gulf of Carpentaria in tropical north Queensland. © Scott Portelli/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Landscape Kim-pan Dennis Wong, Hong Kong
HONG KONG At Hung Hom, the rising of full moon could be found every month thanks to its facing the east. © Kim-pan Dennis Wong/TNC Photo Contest 2021First Place, People and Nature Alain Schroeder, Belgium@alainschroeder
SAVING ORANGUTANS The whole SOCP team works together to prepare Brenda, an estimated 3-month-old female orangutan (she has no teeth yet), for surgery. © Alain Schroeder/TNC Photo Contest 2021Second Place, People and Nature Tom Overall, Australia@tom.overallphotos
SAND STORM A guide in the Sahara Desert enduring a sand storm. © Tom Overall/TNC Photo Contest 2021Third Place, People and Nature Sebnem Coskun, Turkey
COVID-19 WASTE New danger to underwater life as medical waste used during the pandemic reaches the seas. © Sebnem Coskun/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, People and Nature Minqiang Lu, China
THE WAY HOME In Yunnan, China. May 2021. © Minqiang Lu/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, People and Nature Wax Leung, Hong Kong@waxismine
SPACE OF HK Hong Kong. © Wax Leung/TNC Photo Contest 2021First Place, Water Kazi Arifujjaman, Bangledesh@kazi_arifujjaman_
WATER Water and people. © Kazi Arifujjaman/TNC Photo Contest 2021Second Place, Water Joram Mennes, Mexico@jorammennesphotography
SWIMMING Three levels of leisure: swimmers, freedivers and divers enjoy their respective sport/recreational activities in a Fresh Water mass know locally as the Cenotes. © Joram Mennes/TNC Photo Contest 2021Third Place, Water Man Wai Wong, Hong Kong
WINTER Iceland, 2019. © Man Wai Wong/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Water Jorge Andrés Miraglia, Argentina@yosoytato
GLACIAL BUBBLES As temperatures rise and glacial ice melts, air is released and caught inside. This air bubbles were caught by a frozen layer on top. © Jorge Andrés Miraglia/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Water Manh Cuong Vu, Vietnam
SUMMER ON THE LOTUS POND The lotus ponds across Vietnam are entering the growing season, flourishing. © Manh Cuong Vu/TNC Photo Contest 2021First Place, Wildlife Buddhilini de Soyza, Australia@captures_by_buddhilini
A TURBULENT SWIM Five male cheetahs, were looking to cross this river in powerful currents. It seemed a task doomed to failure and we were delighted when they made it to the other side. © Buddhilini de Soyza/TNC Photo Contest 2021Second Place, Wildlife Mateusz Piesiak, Poland@mpwildlife
SUNFLOWERS This year due to a high water level a giant field of sunflowers could not been mown. In winter it attracted thousands of different species of birds. © Mateusz Piesiak/TNC Photo Contest 2021Third Place, Wildlife Viktor Vrbovsky, Czech Republic
FISHING Pike has caught a large perch. How did it end up? I don’t know. The situation hasn’t changed much in an hour. I had to emerge because I was running out of air. © Viktor Vrbovsky/TNC Photo ContestHonorable Mention, Wildlife Kristhian Castro, Colombia@kristhiancastro
WAITING Galapagos sea lion calf (Zalophus wollebaeki), waiting for its mother in the sand on the beach, San Cristóbal Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. © Kristhian Castro/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Wildlife Thomas Vijayan, Canada@thomasvijayan
SEARCHING Orangutans are accustomed to live on trees and feed on wild fruits like lychees, mangosteens, and figs, and slurp water from holes in trees. © Thomas Vijayan/TNC Photo Contest 2021Honorable Mention, Wildlife Anup Shah, United Kingdom
WILDEBEEST HERD ON THE MOVE Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. During the frenzy of crossing the Mara River, the wildebeests were leaping, kicking, scampering and bucking. © Anup Shah/TNC Photo Contest 2021
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