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This competition is now closed What goes up: World Nature Photography Award winners The World Nature Photography Awards have just announced the winners of their 2020 competition, showcasing an array of talented photographers from around the world. The grand prize winner award went to Thomas Vijayan for his image of the endangered Bornean orangutan. Vijayan spent hours up a tree, waiting to see if one of the local orangutans would use it to cross over to a nearby island. Adrian Dinsdale, co-founder of the WNPAs, said: “We’ve been thrilled with the quality of work that was entered into the awards. It was such a privilege to see the competition’s philosophy come to life – our photographers really are shining a spotlight on the wonders of the natural world in a way that reminds us to do everything we can to protect the future of our planet.” ....
Advertisement An upside-down orangutan, a gigantic-looking bird and a flexible feathered friend performing the splits are among awe-inspiring photos honoured in this year s World Nature Photography Awards. The contest has announced its winners from an incredible pool of entries that flooded in from all over the globe. A stunning image of an endangered Bornean orangutan staring knowingly into a camera while clambering down a tree has been named the overall winner. Thomas Vijayan, from Canada, spent hours up a tree hoping an orangutan would swing by before he captured this brilliant photo. Canada s Thomas Vijayan received a £700 cash prize for his superb shot of a Bornean orangutan in The World is Going Upside Down . Mr Vijayan was crowned the overall winner of The World Nature Photography Awards ....
Advertisement 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. ....