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.
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These incredible images were nominated as finalists for the Nature Photographer of the Year competition for showcasing the beauty of the natural world.
Organised by Nature Talks, there are a variety of sections including landscape, underwater, wildlife and storytelling - with 19,547 images entered from 95 different countries.
The overall winner was Italian photographer Roberto Marchegiani, who was named Nature Photographer of the Year for 2020.
His winning shot was of a giraffe emerging from the forest in Lake Nakuru, Kenya, during the rainy season. Roberto and his friends saw a group of giraffes walking in front of woodland.
But instead of snapping the animals together, Roberto focused on an area of the trees which he thought would frame the long-legged animal well and waited. Eventually a tall creature appeared in his lens, and he got the wonderful shot he was after.