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The Winners of the 2022 Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Competition


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A caracal with a flamingo. Overwall winner and winner in the Animal Behavior category | Dennis Stogsdill

The winners of the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022 have been announced, with an image of a falmingo in the mouth of a caracal by Dennis Stogsdill taking the top prize.

Nature TTL calls itself one of the world’s leading nature photography resources, providing free tutorials and features that are enjoyed by photographers everywhere. The organization hosts this annual photography competition and this year over 8,000 entries were submitted with nature photographers competing for top honors in eight different categories.

Stogsdill, from the United States, won £1,500 ($1,835) for his picture taken in Ndutu, Tanzania of the wild cat that had just successfully hunted down the wading bird. The image shows the caracal “walking off with its prize.”

“This is nature at its most raw. The caracal is soaked from chasing the flamingos through the waters, but has come out on top,” says Will Nicholls, founder of Nature TTL.

“The contrasting colors against the dark surroundings really make this image pop. A wonderful scene to have been able to observe no doubt, let alone capture exquisitely on camera.”

Below are the other winning images from across the remaining categories.

A lion in Botswana. Winner in the Wild Portraits category | Tomasz Szpila
A dog fox in Switzerland. Runner-up in the Wild Portraits category | Matt Engelmann
An african elephant in Tanzania. Runner-up in the Animal Behavior category | Michael Snedic
A bear in Canada. Winner in the Camera Traps category | Geoffrey Reynaud
A snow leopard in Ladakh, India. Runner-up in the Camera Traps category | Sascha Fonseca
A sunset ray in the Maldives. Winner in the Underwater category | Andy Schmid
A male eastern gobbleguts. Runner-up in the Underwater category | Talia Greis
The Milky Way in Australia. Winner in the The Night Sky category | Josselin Cornou
Northern lights in Iceland. Runner-up in the The Night Sky category | Mauro Tronto
A moth in Hungary. Winner in the Small World category | Tibor Litauzki
A micro-moth in the United Kingdom. Runner-up in the Small World category | Tim Crabb
Stormy skies in Sotuh Africa. Winner in the Landscapes category | Bertus Hanekom
Lava in Iceland. Runner-up in the Landscapes category | Marek Biegalski
A city hare in Germany. Winner in the Urban Wildlife category | Jan Piecha
Glow worms in Australia. Runner-up in the Urban Wildlife category | Josselin Coronou
Two malabar parakeets in India. Winner in the Under 16 category | Achintya Murthy
Great crested grebe in Poland. Runner-up in the Under 16 category | Maksymilian Paczkowski

Detailed information on the winning photographers and their images can be found on Nature TTL’s website.


Image credits: All photos are individually credited and provided courtesy of Nature TTL.



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