The most beautiful shots from the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Awards
Whale sharks, lightning storms and an extremely unimpressed Mongolian cat appear in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Awards roster
It hasn’t been a bumper year for photography.
With restrictions on movement both nationally and internationally, most cameras have been limited to selfies and the living room window, but a few brave souls still managed to get out enough to snap some stunning shots.
The Nature TTL Photographer Of The Year Awards celebrate the very best in nature photography, and this year more than 8,000 images competed for the £1,500 grand prize, in categories ranging from animal portraits to underwater and landscape. These are our favourite shots…
OVERALL WINNER: The World Is Going Upside Down, Thomas Vijayan
An orangutan climbs a tree trunk in Borneo, the sky and canopy reflected in the water below
Animal Behaviour, Highly Commended: Dust Bath, Bence Maté
Wild dog puppies playing in the dust of the South African desert
Animal Behaviour, Highly Commended: Fun For All The Ages, Thomas Vijayan
A group of grey langurs enjoy some family time
Animal Behaviour, Highly Commended: Floral Bath Tub, Mousam Ray
A crimson sunbird bathes in the dew captured by a banana flower
Underwater, Runner-up: Round, Zhi’yue Shi
A coiled eel photographed in the Phillippines
Underwater, Highly Commended: My New Toy, Celia Kujala
A Steller sea lion plays with a starfish near Hornby Island, Canada
Underwater, Highly Commended: Bluebottle Sunrise, Grant Thomas
A bluebottle jellyfish bobbling off the shores of Sydney
Underwater, Highly Commended: European Whale Sharks, Nuno Vasco Rodrigues
A whale shark gliding through the north Atlantic off the coast of the Azores
Small World, Runner-up: Nature’s Pitfall, Samantha Stephens
Two salamanders trapped by a predatory norther pitcher plant
Small World, Highly Commended: 3… 2… 1… Takeoff!, Christian Brockes
An acorn weevil readies itself to fly
Small World, Highly Commended: Bee Wolf with Honeybee Prey, Simon Jenkins
The solitary bee wolf wasp claims another victim
Wild Portraits, Highly Commended: Snow Monster, Amit Eshel
A rare Pallas’ Cat on the snowy steppes of Mongolia
Wild Portraits, Highly Commended: A Predator’s Playground, Charl Stols
A lion cub playing on the carcass of a giraffe
Wild Portraits, Highly Commended: Kangu ,Tomasz Szpila
A lowland gorilla named Kangu in the Lesio Louna reserve in the Republic of the Congo
The Night Sky, Category Winner: The Eye, Ivan Pedretti
Geological strangeness on Uttakleiv Beach, Norway, beneath the green tinge of the Northern Lights
The Night Sky, Highly Commended: Purple Skies, Bence Maté
Wading birds illuminated by flashes of forked lightning
Under 16, Runner-up: Fight In The Mountains, Raphael Schenker
Two young mountain goats frolicking in the Swiss Alps
Urban Wildlife, Highly Commended: The Door, Jose Luis Ruiz Jiminez
A barn owl peering through the door of an abandoned house
Landscapes, Highly Commended: Bled, Tomasz Rojek
Dawn breaks over Lake Bled in Slovenia
Camera Traps, Highly Commended: Moonwalker, Vladimir Cech Jr
A homemade camera trap captures a roving northern lynx
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