Photo by Josef Friedhuber / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Winter migration. Photo by Terje Kolaas / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Photo by Aare Udras / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Red in Red. Photo by George Nies / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Fishing trip at sunrise. Photo by Miquel Angel Artús Illana / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Beautiful world. Photo by Levi Fitze / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
Last Embrace. Photo by Roie Galitz / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
In a photo tited "Dragon Lair", Russian photographer Denis Budkov captures the highest and most active volcano in the national park. "The lenticular cloud above the top of the volcano, illuminated by hot lava, creates the impression that a fire-breathing dragon is sitting on the top under the clouds." he said. Photo by Denis Budkov / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
In an aerial series of photographs, Ice Anatomy is a project by Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa to capture how frozen topography can resemble the human anatomy. Photo by Gheorghe Popa / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
In a shot titled "White Wedding", photographer Roie Galitz captures the courtship of two polar bears during a winter whiteout. "We were lost in this whiteout for hours, with no point of reference around us. The white polar bears in the white surrounding blended perfectly and I thought about the song by Billy Idol 'White Wedding' as the white surrounded me," he said. Photo by Roie Galitz / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
The winning photograph of the Plants and Fungi category, Austrian photographer Rupert Kogler's 'Heat of Hoar' captures the merging of the sun and fog in a partially covered winter landscape. "The most fascinating thing to me actually was, that the sun melted the hoar frost in the tree tops and these particles of ice finally fell down as a glittering curtain from time to time. So I just tried to find an appealing composition hoping for the rays not to disappear and some ice coming down in front of me, backlit by the sun, while I used a wide aperture to enlarge and blur the glittering dots," he said. Photo by Rupert Kogler / Nature Photographer Of The Year Awards
"At last we saw the fox on the right side checking if it was safe to cross the bridge," said photographer Andius Teijgeler, describing the moment he captured his winning shot "Fox crossing the bridge". "Suddenly she decided to go and I was able to take this shot." Photo by Andius Teijgeler
