The magnificent winning shots of the Nature inFocus Photography Awards 2022

Aunett Staff | January 6, 2023 | Photography | No Comments

Created in 2015, the Nature inFocus Photography Awards competition was initially intended to bring together all photographers in India who are passionate about nature. Faced with enthusiasm for the project, it quickly became an international competition to promote the beauty of the fauna and flora. And recently, the organizers announced the winning photos selected by the jury for the year 2022.

For this eighth edition, 21,000 photographs were sent by photographers from all over the world. According to Rohit Varma, one of the creators of the competition, the photos increasingly illustrate the current conditions of the world in which we live and lead to exploring new avenues.

Until now, the participants were divided into five categories reflecting the animals’ behaviors, portraits, or natural habitats. This year has thus seen the birth of a new type entitled “Portfolio,” which brings together several images by the same photographer and will receive a single prize. They are then judged by a jury of experts composed, among others, of photographers specializing in wildlife, Andy Rouse and Dhritiman Mukherjee, but also Prasenjeet Yadav, photographer for National Geographic.

At the end of the results, the winner of the Portfolio category is awarded a check for 1,180 euros and professional equipment, while the winners of each category leave with the sum of 590 euros. And so it was the Mexican photographer Fernando Constantino Martinez Belmar who won the title of the photographer of the year with his portfolio called “Balam,” dedicated to the sacred jaguar endangered because of the destruction of its natural habitat due to deforestation in Mexico.

We also retain the photographer Kai Kolodziej in the Creative nature photography category and his shot entitled “The seven moons of the Sahara,” where we can see the silhouette of a horned viper in the half-light of an Israeli desert but also the Indian photographer Nejib Ahmed and his “Theory of Chaos” illustrating Borsola villagers panicked at the sight of a tigress resting near their rice fields.

We let you admire below the magnificent winning shots selected by the jury of the Nature inFocus Photography Awards 2022. To find out more or participate in the next edition, do not hesitate to visit the official website of the natureinfocuscompetition.in .

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