Pictures of the winner of the 2021 nature photographer competition

Nature Photographer Contest Celebrates the Year of Nature Photography Beauty. This year, 20,061 photos were submitted in 13 different categories, which, according to the organization, is a record for this competition. The main prize of this competition includes 3,000 Euros for the winner in addition to cash prizes and other equipment. Tarj class From Norway, he won the bird category and the overall winner of the top honors for a photo of migratory birds entitled “Winter Migration”.

birds

• Photographer Name: Tarj class

The class teacher says:

Every spring and fall, more than 80,000 geese stop on their way between overwintering areas in Denmark and the Netherlands and breeding grounds in Spitsbergen in the Trondheim-Fjord wetland system. It makes me proud to host thousands of greyhounds in my garden several months a year.

He says he photographed geese for more than 20 years, until they came to fruition at the point of his ideas; So he tried to send a drone into the air. Finally, after decades of unsuccessful attempts over the past few years, he was able to take a photo in late April 2020 that was worth sharing. Tarj was finally able to photograph the geese in the clear snow background during the strange and rare events of the blizzard and heavy snowfall of the year.

You can see the winners of the other categories below.

mammals

• Photographer Name: Joseph Faridaber