Amazing Pictures

[mikechamp]

Enjoy these cool photos:

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice winners capture nature at its fiercest

A snarling honey badger stares down a cape porcupine in Botswana. It’s a brief pause in a life-or-death fight between the two animals. The porcupine bought some time with its sharp quills but a leg injury inflicted by the badger has left the porcupine vulnerable and it ultimately won’t survive the encounter.

Photographer David Northall captured the tense moment in a shot aptly titled “Spiked.” The photo finished in the top five of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Awards, announced this week in London.

Ian Wood took home top honors for his photo (seen below) of a Eurasian badger wandering the streets of the seaside town St Leonards-on-Sea, England.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wildlif ... 00935.html

[Jocephus]

not a picture but kind of amazing

[mikechamp]

It's that time of year again, so enjoy the images:

Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He set up his camera trap after spotting fresh hyena tracks in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. It took him ten years to get the shot, he said.

The brown hyena, the rarest of all hyena species, is primarily nocturnal and tends to live a solitary life. For years, Mr van den Heever searched the deserted town, finding only traces of the elusive animal. "I knew they were there, but actually photographing one was just never going to happen," he says he thought.

He was awarded the prize at London's Natural History Museum. The annual exhibition dedicated to the competition opens at the Natural History Museum on 17 October.

Keep scrolling to explore the full collection of award-winning images.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx253vrd931o

[Radbird]

I've definitely posted this before, and it's the most effective use of the internet as art I've seen...

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/

An all-time favorite.

I was reliving this thread and some great pics are still there, but it’s sad to see so many broken links (and I only made it through 13 pages tonight). If anyone can find what they posted still online elsewhere, quote and repost it.

I wonder if Days with My Father is still somewhere out there.

[mikechamp]

A lot of cool photos of the Beaver supermoon:

In pictures: Wednesday's Beaver supermoon captured around the world

People around the world have been able to catch a glimpse of the Beaver supermoon as it rose on Wednesday. The largest, brightest Moon of the year has been shining in all its glory in the areas lucky enough to have a clear sky. Wednesday's supermoon is bigger and brighter than earlier supermoons this year due to the fact that it is the closest full Moon to Earth.

The name Beaver Moon follows a longstanding tradition of nicknaming supermoons. While there is some disagreement as to the origins of the name, some sources attribute it to First Nations tribes in North America historically setting beaver traps in November.

The last supermoon of the year will follow this month's Beaver Moon, taking place on 4 December.

Photographers across the globe have been sharing their photos while out and about capturing the supermoon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39749px2zyo

[mikechamp]

Happy holidays!

National Geographic unveiled its Pictures of the Year. Here are 7 of the most striking wildlife photos.

National Geographic's annual Pictures of the Year collection showcases stunning images of wildlife from around the world. Out of the hundreds of thousands of images taken by its photographers in 2025, National Geographic selected 25 to be included in the feature.

"Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder," National Geographic editor in chief Nathan Lump said in a statement. "Taken together, I see a collective sense of urgency — a call to preserve what's in danger of being lost, as well as a reminder of the poetic beauty to be found in carrying on, in daring to dream of a better future."

Here are seven photos from the collection, which can be viewed in its entirety on National Geographic's website.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nationa ... os-2025-12

[mikechamp]

Enjoy the images, and be sure to read the back stories on them, too. It makes the visuals all the better:

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

From a tender moment between a crane and her chick to a heartbreaking image of a polar bear cub’s final moments, the finalists for the Nuveen People’s Choice Award of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest stun.

Photographers from 113 countries and territories submitted more than 60,000 images for consideration. A judging panel of photography, wildlife, conservation and science experts whittled the finalists list down to 24 photographs that are now competing for votes from the public. Voting closes March 18.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.

https://www.popsci.com/environment/2026 ... -nominees/

[mikechamp]

Just happened to run across this and thought I would share:

The top photos of the week by AP photojournalists

July 10 - July 16, 2026

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/top-ph ... 8f142011a9

[mikechamp]

It's getting to that time of year again:

Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

An emotional scene of an elephant carrying a deceased calf has earned Italian photographer Federico Veronesi the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026.

While tracking elephants in Namibia's Huab River Valley, Veronesi spotted an unusual trail of drag marks across the sand of a dry riverbed. Following the tracks, he came across a female elephant carrying a dead calf, its leg wedged between her tusk and trunk. Initially, Veronesi assumed the elephant was the calf's mother. But after sharing his photographs with an elephant research project working in the area, he learned that this wasn't certain. Researchers recognized the elephant as a female who had lost a calf several years earlier and said she had previously picked up dead calves belonging to other females.

For Veronesi, the encounter was deeply significant. "Of all the 20 years I've done photographing animals, this is the most heart-wrecking and fascinating and dramatic," he said, describing it as "revealing of the depth and complexity of the emotions, the feelings of the animals." He hopes the image will encourage people to look beyond animals' physical appearance and recognise them as individuals with their own relationships, memories and emotions. "It's a small window that opens just a crack into the complexity of their world," he said.

The competition's annual exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum on Friday 16 October 2026. Keep scrolling to see more award-winning images.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5y4nv05rp8o

There are some incredible pictures in this year's contest. This one was my favorite because while it looks fake, it is very much real and shows how different species can interact with each other and be helpful to one another:

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