The winners and runners up of the 2019 Nature Photographer Of The Year were announced recently. The standards were incredibly high, as usual. The award was presented at the Nature Talks Photo Festival in the Netherlands and over 14,000 images were submitted by photographers from 73 different countries in the competition.
Entries were divided into 11 categories including Birds, Mammals, Plants and mushrooms, Landscapes, Underwater and Man and Nature. Category winners are then pitted against each other to decide the Grand Prize: the prestigious title of Nature Photographer Of The Year.
Click on the photos for the slideshow to see a comprehensive list of the best winners and runners up of this year’s competition!
Category Birds Runner-Up ‘Golden Eagle Landing’ By Audun Rikardsen (No)
Category Black And White Highly Commended ‘Brothers’ By Luke Massey (Es)
Category Landscape Winner ‘A Stormy Day’ By Ales Krivec (Si)
Category Mammals Highly Commended ‘Climbing To The Sweet’ By José Juan Hernández (Es)
Category Mammals Highly Commended ‘Colorful Night’ By Mohammad Murad (Kw)
Category Mammals Highly Commended ‘Wolf Attack’ By Martin Steenhaut (Be)
Category Mammals Runner-Up ‘Tapir Diver’ By Marcio Esteves Cabral (Br)
Category Other Animals Highly Commended ‘Fly’ By Radomir Jakubowski (De)
Category Underwater Highly Commended ‘Duck Photo Bomb’ By Paul Colley (UK)
Category Underwater Runner-Up ‘Dancing In The Light’ By Domenico Tripodi (It)
Category Underwater Winner ‘ Up In The Air’ By Alexey Zozulya (Ru)
Overall Winner And Black And White Category Winner ‘Jump’ By Csaba Daroczi (Hungary)
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