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#2

Category Plants And Fungi: "Spirits Of The Bamboo Forest" By Agorastos Papatsanis (Gr)

Final score:

136points

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

Dizzying heights- really neat use of perspective.

21points

#3

Category Mammals: "A Quick Sip" By Javier Aznar (Es)

Final score:

126points

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Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

Sluuuurp!

9points

The overall winner, Jasper Doest, took the moving photograph of a monkey wearing a human mask in a traditional Japanese sake house north of Tokyo. The artist explained that after dinner, the tavern’s guests can watch Japanese macaques performing tricks with various props on a makeshift stage.

“In the old days, the Japanese macaque or snow monkey was a sacred religious symbol, known to mediate between gods and humans. Today, the animal has been reduced to a secular scapegoat, a defaced outcast, and target of mockery.”

This photo is part of Jasper’s larger series of photos that he shot for National Geographic called “Sacred No More.” According to the artist’s website, “The Japanese macaque, best known as the ‘snow monkey,’ is revered as a bridge between man and the gods, but it has become so habituated to humans in recent years that its population has increased tenfold.”

#4

Category Mammals: "Hareball" By Andrew Parkinson (Gb)

Final score:

119points

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lastof4 4 years ago

*think warm thoughts, think warm thoughts, think warm thoughts...*

27points

#5

Category Birds: "Following Mum" By Oscar Dewhurst (Gb)

Final score:

118points

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Soap 4 years ago

Little fluffs!

16points

#6

Category Men And Nature: "Crab Road" By Tom Schandy (No)

Final score:

116points

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glowworm2 4 years ago

What unusual weather they're having.

33points

One member of the jury, Angel Fitorthis, said that Jasper’s photo is, in fact, the icon of our time. On behalf of the jury, he stated: “A macaque on stage takes off his mask in front of a fake forest. As the mask slips, the wall of arrogance that we have built between us and nature over many centuries suddenly collapses. Never before has a portrait of an animal mirrored us like this: a naked monkey behind a human mask.”

#7

Category Plants And Fungi: Winner: "Blooming Desert" By Marco Gaiotti (It)

Final score:

111points

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Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago

This pink is shocking against the bleak background. And it makes sense colour-wise. I like it very much.

17points

#8

Category The Underwater World: "Constellation Of Eagle Rays" By Henley Spiers (Gb)

Final score:

102points

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Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago

I love this one. It’s hard to tell whether it’s a pencil sketch or a photo. It could be butterflies or bird as well. And I love the air of mystery and calmness of the underwater world.

16points

#9

Category The Underwater World: Runner Up: "Hitch-Hiking Octopus" By Magnus Lundgren (Se)

Final score:

100points

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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago

Alien

12points

#10

Category Birds: "Natural Colours" By Salvador Colvee (Es)

Final score:

96points

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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago

Wow. I would have thought this was a drawing.

51points

#11

Category The Underwater World: Winner: "Whale Milk" By Mike Korostelev (Ru)

Final score:

96points

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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago

awwww!

10points

#12

Category Other Animals: "Firefly Light Trails In The Rainforest" By Konrad Wothe (De)

Final score:

95points

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

Looks magical!

11points

#13

Category Fritz Pölking Junior Prize: "A Flurry Of Snow" By Florian Smit

Final score:

93points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

The photo is beautiful, and the bird is so cute

10points

#14

Category Young Photographers To 14 Years: Runner Up: "A Home In Pink" By Carlos Perez Naval (Es)

Final score:

92points

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Raine Soo 4 years ago

I find that this photo is very pretty and tranquil. The birds look as if they are trying to figure out where to put the television.

19points

#15

Category Birds: Winner: "Penguin Defence" By Ben Cranke (Gb)

Final score:

89points

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Brigs 4 years ago

You cannot jump the Q!

16points

#16

Category Birds: "Storm Brewing" By Oscar Diez (Es)

Final score:

87points

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Aeon Flux 4 years ago

And this one looks like an oil painting...

10points

#17

Category Mammals: "A Study Of Art" By Klaus- Peter Echle (De)

Final score:

85points

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Rowlie 4 years ago

This could make a wonderful tattoo

8points

#18

Category Plants And Fungi: "Swamp Colours" By Mauro Battistelli (It)

Final score:

85points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

This is so impressive and powerful! I almost can't believe it's real. Great work of nature and beautiful photo... I admire both of them - Nature and Art

5points

#19

Category Young Photographer 15 To 17 Years: Runner Up: "Musketeers" By Grzegorz Dlugosz (Pl)

Final score:

85points

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Brigs 4 years ago

Stunning!

8points

#20

Category Other Animals: Runner Up: "Curious Glances" By Manuel Plaickner (It)

Final score:

80points

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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago

Detective Toad has you discretely under surveillance.

26points

#21

Category Men And Nature: "The New Lighthouse Keepers" By Audun Rikardsen (No)

Final score:

79points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

I don't see man here. And I wonder why...

3points

#22

Category Men And Nature: Winner: "Empathy" By Marcus Westberg (Es)

Final score:

76points

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Brigs 4 years ago

That is so sad to see them in captivity like that

35points

#23

Category Young Photographers To 14 Years: Winner: "Backlight" By Andres Domingues Blanco (Es)

Final score:

76points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

"Latest report from the ground: Everything's under control in my area. Nothing to worry about here..."

4points

#24

Category Nature´s Studio: Winner: "Galaxy" By Thomas Hempelmann (De)

Final score:

75points

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Soap 4 years ago (edited)

Holy cheezits. That's beautiful.

12points

#25

Category Birds: "Strange Encounters" By Hannes Klostermann (De)

Final score:

73points

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Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

Some fish can fly and some birds are great underwater swimmers. And some humans are very good photographers.

18points

#26

Category Nature´s Studio: "Owl Forest" By Bertold Nagy (Hu)

Final score:

71points

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Neil Srivatsa 4 years ago

Beautiful colors on the owl

6points

#27

Category Men And Nature: "Saving Orang-Utans" By Alain Schroeder (Be)

Final score:

70points

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Linda Williams 4 years ago

Poor little sweetheart 😢

20points

#28

Category Men And Nature: "Busy Lines" By Pere Soler Isern (Es)

Final score:

59points

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Tinley's Aunt 4 years ago

The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock lingers nearby...

12points

#29

Category Other Animals: "In A Hat" By Katarzyna Gubrynowicz (Pl)

Final score:

57points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

Wow! This looks to me like some creature with the face of rhino, eyes of snail, and the pearl shell in the back. I'm not high, I swear

5points

#30

Category Plants And Fungi: "Wrapped" By Theo Bosboom (Nl)

Final score:

53points

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Soap 4 years ago

Nope, no thanks. Beautiful, but I'll stay here at home.

20points

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#31

Category Landscapes: "Etna's River Of Fire" By Luciano Gaudenzio (It)

Final score:

20points

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#32

Category Birds: "Beautiful Plumage" By Jan Pederson (Se)

Final score:

19points

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Aeon Flux 4 years ago

Nice chiaroscuro.

1point

#33

Category Mammals: Winner: "So Big And Yet So Small" By Cristoph Kaula (De)

Final score:

19points

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

Now that's some clever use of negative space. I'm really curious how the photographer achieved this affect.

3points

#34

Category Mammals: "A Wild Chase" By Vladislav Kostylev (Ru)

Final score:

19points

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Neil Srivatsa 4 years ago

They almost both look like rabbits! Though one of them is the arctic fox.

2points

#35

Category Landscapes: "Alienscape" By Fortunato Gatto (Gb)

Final score:

18points

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

The landscape looks otherworldly-- really lovely textures in the sand and water.

1point

#36

Category Nature´s Studio: "God's Power" By Leonardo Papera (It)

Final score:

18points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

Wow.

0points

#37

Category Other Animals: Winner: "A Father And His Offspring" By Jaime Culebras (Es)

Final score:

17points

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Raine Soo 4 years ago

And Dad looks so proud too!

4points

#38

Category Landscapes: "Waterfall In A Storm" By Luis Manuel Vilarino Lopez (Es)

Final score:

17points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

Gorgeous.

0points

#39

Category Landscapes: "Moonlight" By Riccardo Marchegiani (It)

Final score:

17points

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Andrei Anghel 4 years ago

The mountains are lit from the right, as the moon is. I presume is the setting sun

2points

#40

Category The Underwater World: "An Icy Mobile Home" By Greg Lecoeur (Fr)

Final score:

17points

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#41

Category Birds: "Courting At The Onset Of Winter" By Manuel Plaickner (It)

Final score:

16points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

Beautiful.

0points

#42

Category Mammals: "The End Is Near" By David Lloyd (Gb)

Final score:

16points

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Raine Soo 4 years ago

The end is here.

1point

#43

Category Mammals: "Black & White" By Christoph Kaula (De)

Final score:

15points

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jevais 4 years ago

Fantastic photo, very mysterious and beautiful.

1point

#44

Category Mammals: "Dust Bath" By Bence Mate (Hu)

Final score:

15points

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Neil Srivatsa 4 years ago

Those are some epic silhouettes.

2points

#45

Category Mammals: "The Fortress" By Emile Sechaud (Fr)

Final score:

14points

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#46

Category Other Animals: "Underground Sky" By Javier Tur (Es)

Final score:

14points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

Exquisite.

0points

#47

Category Plants And Fungi: "A Sheet Of Music" By Juan Garcia Lucas (Es)

Final score:

14points

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jevais 4 years ago

Simply amazing. I like the caption.

1point

#48

Category Landscapes: "Elements" By Marijin Heuts (Nl)

Final score:

14points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

I shivered.

0points

#49

Category Nature´s Studio: "Jellyfish Trails" By Henley Spiers (Gb)

Final score:

14points

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Raine Soo 4 years ago

This looks like an illustration, and the jellyfish is a cute cartoon character, zipping about.

3points

#50

Category Plants And Fungi: "The White Tree" By Felipe Foncueva (Es)

Final score:

13points

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago

I honestly thought that this was some abstract oil painting or wall mural.

0points

#51

Category Men And Nature: Runner Up: "Fighting No Matter What" By Alvaro Herrero Lopez- Beltran (Es)

Final score:

13points

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Brigs 4 years ago

Too many humans invading the sea

8points

#52

Overall Winner: "A Monkey's Mask" By Jasper Doest (Netherlands)

Final score:

12points

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Issey 4 years ago

"wildlife photography"... and the "overall winner" is a cleary no longer "wild", captive monkey in a costume. ???

20points

#53

Category Other Animals: "A Good Father" By Javier Aznar (Es)

Final score:

12points

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#54

Category Landscapes: Winner: "Mammutus Clouds Over The Dolomites" By Georg Kantioler (It)

Final score:

12points

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Janet Bird 4 years ago

Fascinating.

0points

#55

Category The Underwater World: "Fish Explosion" By Nicholas More (Gb)

Final score:

12points

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#56

Category Men And Nature: "Five Metres Eighty" By Miguel Rubio (Es)

Final score:

12points

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A Dumbo Octopus 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure these giraffes are just walking through the city while people would normally be asleep...Because of habitat loss they have to migrate through cities to find their usual feeding areas again. Elephants do this a lot, too.

0points