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There is an annual Mangrove Photography Awards contest. This year's winner is really amazing, because I don't know how you safely get this type of close-up photo:
Mangrove forests: Crocodile close-up in Cuba wins photo awards

Tanya Houppermans has been named overall winner of this year's Mangrove Photography Awards, for her close-up portrait of an American crocodile surrounded by mangroves at Gardens of the Queen in Cuba.

Run by the Mangrove Action Project, the competition - now in its eighth year - aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities and mangrove forests, as well as the fragility of these unique ecosystems, both above and below the waterline.
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mikechamp wrote:
November 4 22, 9:38 am
There is an annual Mangrove Photography Awards contest. This year's winner is really amazing, because I don't know how you safely get this type of close-up photo:
Mangrove forests: Crocodile close-up in Cuba wins photo awards

Tanya Houppermans has been named overall winner of this year's Mangrove Photography Awards, for her close-up portrait of an American crocodile surrounded by mangroves at Gardens of the Queen in Cuba.

Run by the Mangrove Action Project, the competition - now in its eighth year - aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities and mangrove forests, as well as the fragility of these unique ecosystems, both above and below the waterline.
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What an awesome pic.

Also awesome are mangroves in general.

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Ahhh... the end of year lists. I always enjoy reading through them. In this collection, I'm stunned at some of these photos. Not at the photography, but that the moment actually happened. Some of these are just so surreal. The author of the compilation also tries to find a parallel in the art world. Sometime it's close, and sometimes the comparison is... a bit off.
14 of the most striking images of 2022

Kelly Grovier picks 14 of the most startling photos from this year – including Ukrainian soldiers playing chess with Molotov cocktails, Iranian protesters and wildfires in Spain and the US – and compares them with iconic artworks.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... es-of-2022

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Another annual contest has announced its winners. This one is the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, and the overall winner's picture is awesome. Some of the other winners' photos are cool, too.
International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 2023

Tony North has been named winner of this year's International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. His picture was taken in the island of La Palma, which is part of the Canary Islands. It is entitled Blue Tajinaste and also won first place in the Breathing Spaces section of the competition.

North achieved the final image by combining two different exposures; one of the sky and one of the foreground. "This photograph excels in highlighting plant life on our planet," said head judge Tyrone McGlinchey.

This picture was also awarded the Threatened Plants Photographic Award. "Echium gentianoides is rare, being confined to La Palma in the Canary Islands, and classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable due to browsing and predation by goats and other invasive species," says Dr Paul P Smith, Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

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I know it's a video, but we don't have an Amazing Videos thread. Besides, I'm sure there might be photos that come out of this expedition:
Paragliders record never-before-seen footage of world's second-tallest mountain

For the first time ever, two paraglider pilots flew to K2 and glided within 1,100 yards of the summit. They brought home never before seen views.

"The images that will stay forever in my head, those views," said Belgian paraglider Tom de Dorlodot to a Red Bull pool journalist at base camp. "It was the first time that people get into that area near K2 and fly, and it was also the first time it was ever recorded."

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/paragli ... 30841.html

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Not only do you get photos with this article, but also a Q&A with the photographer:
Edward Burtynsky's photos show the scars of human-altered landscapes

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky discusses his startling and unexpectedly sublime photos – 'an extended lament for the loss of nature' – with Gaia Vince.

For more than 40 years, the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has recorded the impact of humans on the Earth in large-scale images that often resemble abstract paintings. The writer Gaia Vince, whose book Nomad Century was published in 2022, interviewed Burtynsky for BBC Culture about his latest project, African Studies.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... ew-can-see

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A pandemic project that took on a life of its own:
Dad completes 1,000 days of toy car photos around the UK

When Ross Burns first took a photo of one of his son's toy cars while on a daily walk he did not think it would turn into an obsession that has seen him complete 1,000 days of taking pictures in different locations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-no ... d-65714184

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This could probably go in a couple different threads, but since I'm already in here, this is where it shall be placed:
Underwater creatures: 5,000 new species found in the Pacific Ocean

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65722878

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