Shark and fox hunting their prey among stunning nature prize winners in Tokyo International Foto contest
Updated: 5 Feb 2021, 8:19
THESE are the amazing images that have scooped gongs in the Nature category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
Stunning snaps of creatures great and small, including a giant shark and a stalking fox hunting their prey, took home the top prizes.
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This incredible image of a Great White shark was taken by Brice Weaver in the waters off Guadalupe Island, and scooped the Gold prize in the Underwater sectionCredit: Brice Weaver/Tokyo Foto Awards/Triangle News
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Lucia Drietomská won the Bronze Prize in the Wildlife section for this stunning photo of a fox titled Little Red Hunter Credit: Lucia Drietomska/Tokyo Foto Awards/Triangle News
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Two grizzly bears fighting, a group of bison ploughing through a field of snow and the stars lighting a hiking trail are among the pictures selected as the 20 finalists in a photography competition showcasing images from US national parks.
All 20 images were the winners of the first ever annual Nature s best Photography National Parks Photo competition and were the top 20 placed images chosen from more than 3,000 entries.
One image taken by photographer, Brian Wright of San Diego, California, showed the star trails over the Chesler Park Hiking Trail, Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Grizzly bears : This stunning photo by Thomas Vijayan shows the brutality of nature as two grizzly bears duel in Katmai National Park, Alaska
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These are the stunning black and white images that have scooped gongs at the prestigious Monochrome Photography Awards 2020.
More than 7,000 photographers from 91 different countries entered with the striking images separated into 13 categories for professional and amateur contestants.
Awards and honourable mentions were awarded for photographs across abstract, architecture, conceptual, fashion /beauty, fine art, landscapes, nature, nude, photojournalism, photomanipulation, portrait, street and wildlife categories.
Axel Brand from Stuttgart, Germany, won first prize in the awards fashion/beauty category for his picture of topless dancer Lexa-Lee.
The Monochrome Photographer of the Year Ksystof Mozyro won the award for his photos of the Black Lives Matter protests in London on June 6.
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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.