By Sheetal Kumari | December 17, 2024
Celebrating the beauty of our planet, the 2024 World Nature Photography Awards showcases stunning images from around the globe. All photos in this story courtesy of WNPA’s official website.
Image Credit: Cari Letelier
While on holiday in Shetland, 2024 Nature Photography Awards winner Tracey Lund captured diving gannets, taking 1,800 shots but finding only two usable images.
Image Credit: Tracey Lund
Miki Spitzer from Israel won gold in Nature Art for capturing Iceland’s glacial braids and golden sediment, creating an imaginative scene resembling an elephant or lion’s mane.
Image Credit: Cari Letelier
Partha Roy from Sri Lanks wins bronze for this fierce Himalayan vulture.
Image Credit: Partha Roy
Nicolas Remy, gold winner in animal portraits, captured a black anglerfish portrait, highlighting its predatory nature in a reef he regularly dives.
Image Credit: Nicolas Remy
Andy Schmid from Switzerland won gold in Underwater for capturing a female orca diving through a herring bait ball in Norway’s fjords during a feeding frenzy.
Image Credit: Andy Schmid
Ivan Pedretti from Italy won gold in Planet Earth’s Landscapes and Environments category for capturing the stunning contrast of black sand, yellow grass, and white mountains in Iceland.
Image Credit: Ivan Pedretti
Lukas Walter wins bronze in Behaviour – Mammals category for this picture of an elephant reaching the top.
Image Credit: Lukas Walter
John Seager from the United Kingdom won gold in Behaviour: Animal and Reptile for capturing a lava lizard basking atop a marine iguana in the Galápagos Islands.
Image Credit: John Seager
Francisco Negroni from Chile won silver in the Planet Earth’s Landscapes and Environments category for his majestic photograph of a volcano.
Image Credit: Francisco Negroni
Bill Klipp from the USA won gold in Behaviour – Invertebrates for capturing a Sally Lightfoot crab gripping lava rocks as waves blurred around it in Galápagos.
Image Credit: Bill Klipp
Lakshitha Karunarathna of Sri Lanka won a silver medal for this stunning image showcasing birds’ behaviour.
Image Credit: Laskshitha Karunarathhna