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  • Freya.<br />
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Before his rescue, cheetah cub Freya had been kept in a wood-and-wire cage and was skinny and dehydrated. Now healthy, he loves climbing on logs, sitting on high platforms, and playing with toys. Fewer than 7,000 adult cheetahs are left in the wild, but every year scores—perhaps hundreds—of mostly very young cheetahs are trafficked out of Somaliland to Persian Gulf states to be sold as pets.<br />
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Through documentary photography Nichole Sobecki brings attention to humanity’s fraught, intimate, and ultimately unbreakable connection to the natural world. Born in New York, she has lived in Nairobi for the past decade.<br />
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Follow Nichole on Instagram @nicholesobecki.
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  • "P-22 birthed a wildlife movement in L.A. that is only going to grow and grow... There’s no cat like him." -Steve Winter<br />
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P-22 was an elusive yet infamous wild cougar who made Los Angeles's Griffith Park his home for 10 years, nearly his whole life. He passed away on Dec. 17, 2022, as a result of complications from old age and injuries from a car strike. He was 12-years-old, elderly for a mountain lion. He was beloved by millions and his legacy lives on. He has literally changed the landscape for wildlife in Los Angeles and beyond.<br />
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The photo sparked a movement to protect southern California’s last cougars and other wildlife in two large protected areas bisected by the 101 Freeway north of L.A. It will be the World’s Largest Wildlife Overpass when completed in 2024. <br />
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Proceeds from the sale of Hollywood Cougar will benefit Big Cat Voices, a nonprofit bringing the most vital issues facing big cats into the spotlight.<br />
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Steve Winter, founder of Founder of Big Cat Voices, has been a photographer for National Geographic for over two decades, He specializes in wildlife, and particularly, big cats. He is a Nat Geo Explorer and he’s been named BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and BBC Wildlife Photojournalist of the Year.<br />
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Follow Steve on Instagram @stevewinterphoto.
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  • Boulder, Colo., sees upwards of 70 mountain lion (Puma concolor) sightings in a year, likely only a fraction of actual activity within city limits. Friends reported to me that one night while watching a movie in their basement apartment, they glimpsed a mountain lion outside the sliding glass door. So I strapped a camera trap to their patio furniture and a birdbath and waited. Two months, multiple blizzards and an array of housecat selfies later, we caught a glimpse of the visitor we'd been searching for. <br />
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Morgan (Mo) Heim is a wildlife photojournalist, filmmaker and adventurer focusing on wildlife-human coexistence. Her goal is to find the beauty, humor and perseverance in the struggle to make the world a better place. She began her career studying fisheries, listening to whales and working on dam removal projects. Now she uses her background in ecology and journalism to tackle subjects such as roadkill, living with cormorants, deer migration and the environmental impacts of drug cartels on forestlands.<br />
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Follow Mo on instagram @moheim
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  • A juvenile cowfish swims slowly through the night sea protected by it biological architecture. Indonesia.  <br />
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Jennifer Hayes is a contributing photographer, author and speaker for National Geographic Partners. She is a scientists turned storyteller submerging 11,000 hours beneath Earth’s surface from ponds to the Pacific to both polar regions.<br />
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She is committed to promoting collaboration in ocean storytelling and providing a voice and platform for Next Generation Ocean.<br />
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Follow Jennifer Hayes on Instagram @jenniferhayesig
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  • Ghost Cat.<br />
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A camera trap catches the old male snow leopard on a mountain overlooking the Spiti Valley. The cat was observed for two years before its death in March, when it chased an ibex off a cliff.<br />
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Prasenjeet Yadav is a molecular biologist turned photographer focusing on natural history and science stories in Asia.He is either working on assignments in remote areas or traveling for speaking engagements.<br />
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Follow Prasenjeet on instagram @prasen.yadav.
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  • A juvenile beluga whale swims beneath the tail of an adult whale in Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island in the Canadian Arctic.<br />
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Female beluga whales come to this estuary region in summertime to give birth, rest and play with their newborn calves in the shallow water. It is like a beluga whale maternity ward and is unique within the whale world since here many moms and calves, sometime hundreds, gather in the same place at the same time. The whales here also use the gravel bottom as a natural loofa to rub off old skin.<br />
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Brian Skerry is a photojournalist and film producer specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments. Since 1998 he has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine, covering stories on every continent and in nearly every ocean habitat.  He is currently at work on his 30th feature story for NGM.<br />
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Follow Brian Skerry on Instagram @brianskerry
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  • El Capitan. <br />
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Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer, New York Times Best Selling author and mountain sports athlete known for his ability to capture extraordinary imagery and stories while climbing and skiing in extremely high-risk environments and expeditions. <br />
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Follow Jimmy on Instagram @jimmychin.
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  • Against All Odds.<br />
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Heron Island, Queensland, Australia. A Green Sea Turtle hatchling cautiously surfaces for air to a sky full of hungry birds. Against all odds, this hatchling must battle through the conditions of a raging storm whilst evading a myriad of predators.<br />
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Not only has the tropical storm brought out thousands of circling birds, but there are also patrolling sharks and large schools of fish on the hunt for baby turtles. Only 1 in 1000 of these hatchlings will survive, will this one survive against all odds.<br />
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Hannah Le Leu has always been intrigued by the ocean. Its mystery and diversity inspired her to begin her journey underwater as a photographer.<br />
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Follow Hannah Le Leu on Instagram @hannahmitchell_photography.
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  • A pod of spinner dolphins hunts the open ocean off south west Costa Rica. These small dolphins form huge pods, sometimes one or two thousand strong.<br />
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Charlie Hamilton James is a National Geographic Magazine photographer.<br />
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Follow Charlie Hamilton James on Instagram @chamiltonjames
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  • A midwinter sunset settles over Alaska's Knik River.
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  • Lena River, Russia. <br />
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Ira Block can best be described as a cultural documentary photographer. He uses his cameras and lights to document people around the world and the changes in traditions and practices. The changes are most often gradual, which is why he returns to a location time after time, helping us see these changes and appreciating them through his eyes—and through social media.<br />
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Follow Ira on Instagram @irablockphoto.
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  • Hunter's boots made out of sealskin were left laying by a fireplace after a long day on the sea ice. The photo was captured while preparing dinner with my friends from Greenland.<br />
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Ciril Jazbec is a Slovenian freelance photographer and film director. His work focuses on communities that are confronted by the effects of globalisation and the climate crisis.<br />
In his long-term projects, he aims to raise awareness about the deterioration of our planet and the increasing impact of the climate crisis.<br />
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He has seen the rising sea levels in Kiribati, the erosion and melting of permafrost in Alaska, and has spent over seven months in Greenland documenting climate effects on the Inuits.<br />
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Follow Ciril on Instagram @ciriljazbec
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  • A Galapagos sea lion blasts through a school of salema looking for a meal at Cousins Rock Galapagos Islands. The salema are not the preferred prey of squid and larger fish but an El Nino event had driven the larger fish deeper into cooler waters out of reach of sea lions. Thousands of sea lions perished during the protracted El Nino event. <br />
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David Doubilet (born November 28, 1946) is an underwater photographer[1] known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine where he is a contributing photographer and has been an author for 70 feature articles since 1971. He was born in New York City and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12.<br />
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Follow David on instagram @daviddoubilet.
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  • A polar bear treks through the snow on an Arctic ridge. <br />
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Dutch photographer Jasper Doest creates visual stories that explore the relationship between humankind and nature and is a contributing photographer to National Geographic magazine. Having majored in ecology, Doest knows human life depends on everything our planet has to offer, yet he recognizes the unsustainable nature of the current human patterns of consumption.<br />
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Follow Jasper on instagram at @jasperdoest.
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  • Glace Abstraite.<br />
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Aerial view of the sea freezing and forming abstract ice lines on the water. The packed ice was swept away by storms which broke up and drove the ice south leaving the fjord full of open water on the east coast of Svalbard in winter.<br />
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Known for his intimate and aesthetically dramatic compositions, Florian Ledoux's distinctive fine art photography is born out of his passion for the preservation of nature, specifically of the Arctic.<br />
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Follow Florian on instagram @florian_ledoux_photographer.
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  • Inside the Earth.<br />
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Formed by millions of years of geologic compression and movement the inner beauty of our rocks reveal a startling delicacy.<br />
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Jon McCormack is a conservation and natural history photographer based in Northern California. His hope is that his images convince humans that nature is worth fighting for. <br />
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Follow Jon on instagram @jonmccormackphoto.
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  • Polar bears from Wapusk National Park in Canada. They were newly emerged from their den and resting before making the journey to the sea ice to hunt seal again. <br />
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Over time, Michelle Valberg has chronicled significant moments that convey national and international impact – from portraits of people living with HIV/AIDS, pandemic heroes and women standard-bearers, to her conservation work documenting numerous wildlife species at risk. Known for her unique ability to create relatable images of unimaginable landscapes and wild creatures, Valberg finds art in all of nature’s most intimate moments. <br />
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Follow Michellee Valberg on instagram @michellevalbergphotography.
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  • Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.<br />
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Born in 1967 in Turin, and based between Italy and Spain, Paolo Verzone has been a member of Agence VU since 2000. For almost 30 years, Paolo Verzone has been photographing the world around him. <br />
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Follow Paolo on Instagram @paoloverzone.
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  • First Cliff Walk, Grindelwald, 2016 from the series ‘Sight Sacralization—(Re)framing Switzerland'.<br />
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My premise in this series of work was to capture images in some of the most-photographed places in Switzerland, deliberately seeking out the picturesque landscape views that attract tourists. Whereas in the days of the European Grand Tours, travellers would hike and climb for days to reach vantage points in order to experience the pleasure of the sublime. today’s tourists are transported in minutes by cable car to the safety of designated viewpoints. The process of discovery has been altered.<br />
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Of course, this is not only a Swiss phenomenon, but it becomes important when we consider that Switzerland’s tourism capital lies predominantly in its landscape. In the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau withdrew into the mountains because he was unhappy with the behavior of city-dwellers and hoped to lead a secluded life communing with nature. This photograph illustrates how Rousseau’s Romantic perception of the Swiss landscape has been radically altered as a result of the different ways in which tourists ‘consume’ this same landscape.<br />
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Today many tourists upload their photos onto various social media platforms in realtime accompanied by a geo-tag where, once upon a time, these photos were intended only for private albums back home.<br />
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Simon Roberts (b.1974) is a British photographer whose work deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum and the Sir Elton John Photography Collection.<br />
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Follow Simon on instagram at @simoncroberts.
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  • MAASAI MARA, NABIOSHO Conservancy
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  • This is a portrait of a chimp named "Milla" taken by photographer James Balog. Milla had been poached as an infant when her family group was killed by poachers. She was taken out of the wild and spent her entire juvenile and adult life in a cage at a bar in Tanzania. There, she was the main attraction as a booze-drinking and cigarette-smoking addict, kept for the guests’ entertainment. Jane Goodall discovered her there in 1990, but because of Milla’s addictions, Jane couldn’t find a place for her in the chimpanzee orphanage at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. <br />
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Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia was the only place that could take her in. Jane personally carried Milla, who was now seventeen years old, in an airplane to Zambia. Because of Milla's addictions, she went through intensive and prolonged care. Since she had lived alone and not in larger communities as chimpanzees usually do, she had to be carefully integrated into one of the chimpanzee families after being nursed back to health. She also had to battle severe withdrawal symptoms. Milla became known as the “Grande Dame” of Chimfunshi and has lived in the sanctuary since 1990. <br />
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Photographer James Balog was there the day when Milla took her first steps out of a cage and onto soil and grass since she had been an infant.<br />
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"She put one foot out of her enclosure, slowly and tentatively, feeling the ground beneath her foot. Then she stepped out, stood up and ran away on her hind legs. I’ll never forget that as she ran she patted her right paw on her chest, over her heart, and made one of those beautiful chimpanzee calls of joy.<br />
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I took this to be a celebration of her freedom, similar to emotions any human would have had. Very touching. I spent the rest of the morning with her, walking through the forest and sitting up in a tree, as Milla surveyed the natural world once more. She was completely open and content with my presence. It was a truly amazing experience for me, the naked ape!"
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  • A young cheeky leopard rests momentarily in a tree as it's mother lounges below. Botswana, 2022<br />
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Karine Aigner was raised in Saudi Arabia, motorcycled through Vietnam, circumnavigated the globe by ship, taught English in Taiwan, and then there was the time the hyena pups chewed her shoes (while on her feet). Her adventures uncover her fervor to tell the stories of life through the lens of a camera; her passion became stories of animals: their relationships to humans, their relationships to their own world, and their existence in the space between the two.<br />
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Follow Karine on Instagram @kaigner.
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  • Arctic Fox Sleeping.<br />
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1984 born Italian wild life photographer Marco Ronconi has always passion to spend time in nature beginning from his childhood. He want to depict pure beauty of landscape and unforeseen moments of wildlife while he keeps simplicity in his approach to his art.<br />
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Follow Marco on instagram @marcoronconi_.
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  • Sage Cattabriga-Alosa skiing a first descent near Petersburg, Alaska while filming with TGR for their upcoming film, "Light the Wick."<br />
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Mark Fisher is an internationally recognized, award-winning photographer, director, and D.P. An athlete, former international mountain guide, and avid traveler, Mark thrives in tropical and urban jungles alike, consistently creating decisive, authentically powerful still and motion content that tells stories in ways no one else can.<br />
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From the documenting the Summit of Everest to directing complex international commercials for companies like CBS in South America or filming commercial lifestyle advertising campaigns in the streets of Venice or New York, Mark is comfortable using a myriad of still and motion camera systems and is an FAA certified drone pilot as well as a private pilot.<br />
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Follow Mark on Instagram @fishercreative.
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  • Nature’s Lungs, 2018 (From the series “Are We Dead Yet?”)<br />
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Are We Dead Yet? Is an ongoing series of works centered around our planet’s climate crisis focused on recent disasters and events in my own country Australia. From one of the worst drought’s in living memory, to the recent catastrophic black summer bush fires and floods to the destruction of native forests. Inspired by his young daughter Ava – a climate activist – our discussions about environmental issues inevitably end up at the big question: is it possible to save the planet, or have we pushed Mother Nature to the brink of extinction?<br />
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I want my photographs to reflect both the consequences of our current path as well as signal the urgency to find new ones, while motivating viewers to question their roles and responsibilities in this real-time catastrophe. I'm looking at this as an artistic kind of canvas – a way to view the tragedies and the trauma of the earth, but to find some sort of beauty in it as well, in the color palette and patterns of the landscape. I’m highlighting the catastrophe to agitate viewers to gaze deeper – these photographs might be beautiful, but if you look at them really closely, there's a very deep message in all of them and there's a real sense of urgency in what I’ve captured.<br />
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Stephen Dupont is an acclaimed Australian photographer and artist whose work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including the 2007 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his work in Afghanistan, and the 2010 Gardner Fellowship for his work in Papua New Guinea. His work has been exhibited at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the International Center of Photography, the New York Public Library, the National Museum of the Marine Corp, The Australian War Memorial, among other venues.<br />
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Follow Stephen on instagram @stephenmdupont.
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  • Red-tailed Tropicbird.<br />
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A Red-tailed Tropicbird soars high near cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.<br />
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Melissa Groo is a wildlife photographer, writer, and conservationist. She’s passionate about conveying the marvels of the natural world to diverse audiences. By capturing and sharing stories about individual wild animals, she hopes to raise awareness and change minds about not only the extrinsic beauty of animals, but also their intrinsic worth. Melissa is an Associate Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers .<br />
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Follow Melissa on instagram @melissagroo.
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  • Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands<br />
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The Aleutian Islands, also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller islands. Most of the Aleutian Islands belong to the U.S. state of Alaska, but some belong to the Russian federal subject of Kamchatka Krai.<br />
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Erika Larsen<br />
e@erikalarsenphoto.com<br />
@erikalarsen888
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  • Symmetry.<br />
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Personalities differ so much in between bears, but one thing they all have in common is a charismatic behavior that grips your attention, whether it’s playful, shy, grumpy or cheeky. This particular grizzly bear was neither of those, she was calm and serene. She floated around the estuary unperturbed by my presence. The glacial waters reflect her panda-like face, I’m positive she was posing for this one. It was one of the most peaceful grizzly bear encounters I’ve ever had.<br />
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After growing up in a small market town in South England, a yearn for adventure lead Jack Plant to British Columbia, Canada. The Great Bear Rainforest is where he found his true passion - photography. Jack has spent the last 9 years exploring the ecosystems of this incredible place, specifically, the territory of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais. It is here where he has learned from the elders and chiefs how to be around wildlife like bears, whales and wolves.<br />
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Follow Jack on instagram @jackjeplant.
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  • A tree grows on a rock in Tuv province, Mongolia.<br />
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Chiara Goia is a photographer whose work is spanning from documentary editorial to commercial, while always keeping focus on her personal work and artistic research. Formed at the International Center of Photography in New York City, Chiara has been working as a professional photographer since 2008.<br />
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Follow Chiara on Instagram @chiaragoia.
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  • St Francis Blessing of the Animals at St John Cathedral.<br />
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Daniel, an 18 year old horse, is being led out of St John's cathedral after the blessing of the animals.<br />
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Dina Litovsky is a Ukrainian-born photographer living in New York City since 1991. Dina's imagery can be described as visual sociology. Her work explores the idea of leisure, often focusing on subcultures and social gatherings.<br />
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Follow Dina on instagram @dina_litovsky.
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  • Golden light falls over a rocky stream in Hokkaido’s Daisetsuzan National Park. Japan
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  • Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth. (Choloepus hoffmanni).<br />
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Mother and two-month-old baby that were rescued when their tree was chopped down with them in it. Miraculously they survived the fall with only minor injuries and were re-released to the wild near Cahuita National Park in Costa Rica.<br />
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Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer best known for her work documenting newborn animals and family life in the wild. Follow Suzi on Instagram @suzieszterhas.
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  • A mirror image of El Capitan framed with fall leaves is reflected in water pooled along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the spectacular granite landscape was formed over millions of years by forces of nature. Volcanic uplifts transformed into glacial valleys, canyons, domes, rivers and amazing waterfalls, with habitat supporting rare species of plants including ancient Giant Sequoia trees.<br />
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Melissa Farlow has worked extensively for National Geographic magazine in the American West for stories on public lands, environmental issues and wild horses. Primarily known for her personal approach when photographing people, Farlow documented diverse cultures and landscapes while in South America, Quebec, Alaska, the Alps, and the Okefenokee Swamp in over 20 National Geographic projects.
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  • BIO: Sudhir Shivaram is one of India’s most respected and renowned wildlife photographers. A long and lucrative career in the IT industry did not diminish Sudhir’s passion for photography but on the contrary, ensured that he never lost touch with his wild side. So much so that he bid adieu to the corporate jungle to spend more time in the real one.<br />
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Sudhir was one of the brand ambassadors for Canon India and currently a brand Ambassador of Sony India. He received the Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 award.<br />
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He has figured in Asian Photography Magazine's Top Ten Most Influential People in photography industry in India for four consecutive years since 2015. He has been at fifth, second and third places during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively. At the 2018 awards, he was awarded the top honour as India's 'First' Most Influential from among a chosen group that comprised top officials of global multinationals.<br />
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At 2013’s worldwide editorial awards held at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C., National Geographic Traveller India’s September 2013 cover featuring Sudhir’s image won the National Geographic Yellow Border Award for the best cover across 14 language editions of the magazine worldwide.<br />
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WEBSITE: sudhirshivaramphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @sudhirshivaram
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  • Milky Way stars seen through canopies of eucalyptus forest at night, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Reclaimed by nature. A lockdown daydream ,an exploration into if our work and social spaces would be reclaimed by nature when we return to them. During the first lockdown of 2020 I noticed how loud birdsong was without the usual noise of human activity and wondered how quickly nature might creep into man made structures.Seeing empty restaurants, offices salons and bars I wondered how these spaces would look, reclaimed by nature.This inspired a daydream vision of what might become.I explore the fragility of human occupation and the strength of nature, life and death in these images.<br />
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Originally studying Fine Art, Jo Sax discovered photography and became hooked. She started out by assisting many big name photographers, acquiring technical knowledge and developing her photographic style.<br />
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Follow Jo on instgram @josax5339.
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  • Elephants surround their young after leaving a water hole in Tanzania.<br />
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Annie Griffiths is an American photographer known for her work at National Geographic and a founder of Ripple Effect Images. Hired at National Geographic, she was one of the first female photographers for the magazine.<br />
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Follow Annie Griffiths on instagram @anniegriffithsphotography.
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  • When you finally get the shot you have been dreaming of!<br />
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Michael Shainblum is a landscape, timelapse and aerial photographer based in San Francisco, California. He discovered his love for visual arts as a child and has been working professionally as a photographer and filmmaker for 16 years since the age of 16. Michael first made a name for himself through his unique creativity and the ability to capture scenes and moments in his distinct style of surreal, visual story telling. Commissioned by large clients including Nike, Samsung, Facebook, LG, Apple and Google. You will also be able to find Michael's work published widely by media outlets such as National Geographic, Wired Magazine and The Weather Channel.<br />
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Follow Michael on instagram @shainblumphotography.
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  • Silhouette lone tree and magical stormy, sunset sky in Kenya’s Masai Mara, April 2018. The Mara’s vast plains are full of these iconic single standing acacia trees, they are what give the Mara its name with the Masai word mara meaning 'dotted' or 'spotted'.<br />
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With a 17-year career in photography traveling much of Africa on assignment, and now as a mother of two girls, Georgina Goodwin has expanded her career to mentor and empower storytellers through her media agency GGImages Media. She is a documentary photographer with a focus on environment, women and social issues. Born and based in Kenya, Georgina is known for her award-winning work covering Kenya’s post-election violence, cancer in Kenya, Westgate terror attack, and refugees in Africa - her image of 30 second old baby refugee Marian winning 2019 British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity Award.<br />
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Follow Georgina on instagram @georginacgodwin.
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  • Cantina Ochroma MM7777<br />
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A woolly Opossum (Caluromys derbianus) feeding on the nectar of a balsa flower (Ochroma pyramidale)
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  • Sunrise from Largo Amarga.<br />
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Lenticular clouds at sunrise over Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.<br />
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Michael Melford's mission is to share the wonders of the natural world with others, and to help them the see the beauty that surrounds us. He hopes that we might preserve it for future generations. His work for the National Geographic magazine, has been celebrating the marvels of national parks and wilderness areas around the world. In 2019 Michael will be featured on five USPS stamps celebrating the Wild and Scenic rivers of the USA collection. <br />
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Follow Michael on Instagram @michaelmelford.
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  • These flamingos lived at Zoo Miami (then called Miami Metrozoo) in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew destroyed the zoo. It was always part of the protocol to capture the flock in the front lake of the zoo whenever there was a hurricane warning issued, and transport them to the public restroom which was used as a bunker to protect them. It was perfect as it had no windows, a tile floor that was easy to clean! It was a move that most certainly saved their lives and some of those flamingos are still alive today at the zoo!<br />
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Ron Magill has worked with wildlife for over 40 years. He is the host of HITN’s national wildlife documentary program, Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill. As Zoo Miami’s “Goodwill Ambassador," he has made frequent television appearances on many programs including, National Geographic Explorer, the Discovery Networks, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Late Show, CBS This Morning, Dateline, and CNN as well as on Spanish networks Univision and Telemundo.<br />
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Follow Ron on instagram @ronmagillconservation.
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  • Looking east through a dawn wildfire haze, the Grand Canyon Village sits on the South Rim (right) of Grand Canyon National Park. First protected as a game preserve by President Theodore Roosevelt, the 1,904-square-mile park was finally created in 1919. The Bright Angel Trail is seen descending 4,380 feet from the 250 million-year-old Kaibab Formation to the 1.7-billion-year-old Zoroaster Granite on the river. on the river.<br />
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Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. He is a self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker.<br />
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Follow Pete McBride on Instagram @pedromcbride
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  • Lion Brothers at Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya<br />
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Graeme Green is a British photographer and journalist. His work appears in international publications, including The Guardian, BBC, and The Times. He has been involved with projects and campaigns that have raised money for wildlife organizations, including African Parks, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, Conservation International, Panthera, SeaLegacy, Big Life International and more.<br />
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He is also the founder of the New Big 5 project, an international initiative raising awareness on urgent wildlife issues and endangered species, supported by more than 300 photographers, conservationists, and wildlife charities.<br />
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He lives in Derbyshire, England.<br />
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Follow Graeme on instagram @graeme.green
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  • Ushguli is a community of five villages located at the head of the Enguri gorge in Svaneti in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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Aaron Huey is an American photographer, explorer, activist, and storyteller. He is known for his work as a photographer with National Geographic, for whom he has shot many magazine features on a diverse array of subjects from adventure, to war, to wildlife. Aaron is the founder of the Amplifier Foundation, a design lab that builds art to amplify the voices of grassroots movements.<br />
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Follow Aaron on instagram @argonautphoto.
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  • Habituated Meerkats photographed at Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa.<br />
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Keith Ladzinski is a National Geographic Photographer and Emmy nominated director. His work primarily focuses on natural history, climate change, extreme sports, fine art and advertising campaigns, sending him to the furthest reaches of the 7 continents multiple times over on photo and film assignments.<br />
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Follow Keith on instagram @ladzinski.
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  • The Steeley gaze, the leathery crest, and a powerful beak all call the ancient dinosaurs to mind, as do the caaowary’s fearsome three-toed feet, which (much as the Velociraptor) and other birdlike dinosaurs must have) it can be employed as weapons.<br />
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Robert Clark is a freelance photographer based in New York City, working with the world's leading magazines, publishers and cutting edge advertising campaigns, as well as the author of four monographs: Evolution A Visual Record, Feathers Displays of Brilliant Plumage, First Down Houston A Year with the Houston Texans and Image America - the first photography book shot solely with a cellphone camera.<br />
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Follow Robert on instagram @robertclarkphoto.
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  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at home, shortly after her nomination to the court.<br />
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David Burnett has been an internationally acclaimed photojournalist for nearly seven decades.  He has worked on contract with LIFE, Time and PEOPLE, and continues to work for a variety of magazines in the US and Europe. He is the recipient of the Press Photo of the Year award from World Press Photo (Holland), Magazine Photographer of the Year from the Pictures of the Year (USA), the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club of America (USA), the latter of which has also awarded him two Olivier Rebbot awards for work done around the world.  <br />
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He's photographed every American President since John F Kennedy, covered the Summer Olympic Games since 1984 in Los Angeles.  He has taught a number of workshops, including the GulfPhotoPlus in Dubai, and Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, and has twice chaired the Jury of World Press Photo. In 2018 he was awarded the Sprague Award from the National Press Photographers Association for Lifetime Service in Photojournalism.   <br />
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In the past few years he has authored two large-format photography books:  "Soul Rebel - An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley," - the world-renowned Reggae musician and songwriter, and "44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World" - a photo memoir of the Iranian Revolution.  <br />
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In 2016 he published (with Hachette in France) “Man Without Gravity,”  a collection of his sports photography.  He lives in the New York area, but considers himself a citizen of the world.<br />
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Follow David Burnett on Instagram @davidburnettfoto
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  • Air Pollution Particles.<br />
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Cyanotype made from a closeup image of air pollution particles collected on Brixton Road, Lambeth, South London, on the 20th of August 2020. Sample collected by the London Air Quality Network on a Beta Attenuation Monitoring device and then photographed digitally through a microscope.<br />
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Marina Vitaglione is a visual artist and photo editor, whose work focuses on environmental issues. Her series Air, consisting of cyanotype prints of air pollution particles collected in London, has been exhibited in London and Glasgow during the 2021 COP26 climate conference. She is the author of Solastalgia, a docufuction on the impact of sea-level rise on Venice (Overlapse, 2017), developed during a residency at Fabrica research centre in Treviso, Italy, and has an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism with Distinction from London College of Communication.<br />
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Follow Marina on instagram @marinavitaglione.
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  • When Mr. Rogers was on the set of The Neighborhood in Pittsburgh, he would often pause for a moment between takes, to contemplate the impact of how his message  might be received by children. He took their young lives very seriously.<br />
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Lynn Johnson was recently awarded a National Geographic fellowship. She is known for shooting elusive subjects—language, disease, rape, water—and for asking tough questions. Dedicated to exploring the far reaches of the human condition, she spends maybe two months a year at home in Pittsburgh, packing that camera bag over and over.<br />
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Follow Lynn Johnson on Instagram @ljohnphoto.
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  • Polar Bear Portrait, Arctic.<br />
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I lay on the cold metal deck of the icebreaker that had been my home for the previous week. I pointed my lens out of a hawsehole and was greeted with this view, only feet from my face. This male polar bear had stood up on his hind legs and we were suddenly eye to eye, allowing me to capture this intimate portrait.<br />
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Australian-born Shannon Wild is an award-winning wildlife photographer and cinematographer and a passionate wildlife lover and conservationist. Since 2004, she has worked for clients such as National Geographic, NatGeo Wild and the United Nations as well as various wildlife NGO's and non-profits such as Wild Tomorrow Fund, The Perfect World Foundation and Wildaid. In 2017, she founded Wild In Africa® - Bracelets For Wildlife as a way to directly give back to various wildlife conservation organizations.<br />
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Follow Shannon on instagram @shannon__wild.
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  • Dolly Parton and fan with her Dolly Doll and tour bus, 1976.<br />
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Jodi Cobb’s trailblazing career spans four decades as a National Geographic staff field photographer, the only woman to have held that position in its history. She has traveled through one hundred countries , breaking gender and cultural barriers to document cultures in some of the world’s most impenetrable environments.<br />
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Follow Jodi on Instagram @jodicobbphoto.
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  • Doves in front of Mazar-e Sharif's famous Blue Mosque. Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan 2003.<br />
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Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic figures in contemporary photography for more than five decades. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, McCurry studied cinematography at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a newspaper.<br />
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Follow Steve on instagram @stevemccurryofficial.
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  • A cygnet, just a few days old, relaxes on the back on its sleeping mother in Derbyshire, UK.<br />
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Andy Parkinson is a feature contributor to National Geographic magazine, a Nikon Europe Ambassador (Wildlife) and is one of Europe’s most awarded photographers. With more than 80 individual awards featuring in excess of 130 images his photographs consistently feature in all the world’s most prestigious wildlife photographic competitions. <br />
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Follow Andy on instagram @andyparkinsonphoto.
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  • Window Washer.<br />
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Mysterious People explores the tension in our curious reality. The moments when we find ourselves looking and looking again, asking, “Did that just happen?” Or maybe even, “Did the camera see something that I didn’t?”<br />
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Amy Sacka is a documentary photographer based in Detroit, Michigan, who is passionate about celebrating the beauty of people and culture, particularly in Detroit and the Midwest.<br />
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Follow Amy on Instagram @amysacka.
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  • Classic Car.<br />
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A classic car drives along a winding road towards the Wisconsin Door County town of Northport on the shore of Lake Michigan. <br />
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David Guttenfelder is a photojournalist and National Geographic Explorer focusing on geopolitical conflict, conservation, and culture.<br />
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Follow David on Instagram @dguttenfelder.
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  • An Orangutan’s Struggle for Survival.<br />
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Having 97% DNA similarities to humans, Orangutan is considered one of the smartest animals on our planet. They're known to be able to use tools and imitate human behavior like this youngling who is able to use a Taro Leaf to protect herself from the rain.<br />
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Despite their intelligence, Orangutan is facing the grave danger of extinction. Around 7,000 Orangutans are killed every year and half of their population have vanished in the last 15 years due to deforestation and illegal poaching.<br />
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Andrew Suryono is a renowned, international award-winning photographer known for his Fine Art Nature, Travel, and Commercial works.<br />
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Follow Andrew on instagram @andrewsuryono.
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  • A bison wallows in dust on the American Prairie Reserve in Montana. Bison reintroduction is a critical – and controversial – part of APR’s plan to rewild a large swath of the northern plains, removing cattle, reestablishing native vegetation, and helping lost wildlife return and thrive.<br />
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The American Prairie Reserve (APR), an independent, nonprofit organization, is working to create the largest nature reserve in the lower 48 by stitching together 3.5 million acres of private and public lands. APR’s goal is to remove all the cattle and replace them with 10,000 free roaming bison and allow this temperate grassland, one of the four left on our planet, to thrive and be forever protected.<br />
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Amy Toensing is a photojournalist committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over twenty years.<br />
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Follow Amy on Instagram @amytoensing.
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  • Difference.<br />
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Winter landscape in Stokksnes, Iceland, on a beach with black sand and the majestic mountain called Vestrahorn.<br />
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Ivan Pedretti studied chemical engineering in Cagliari with a passion for science and chemistry. In 2010 he began to get closer to photography and started photographing mainly nature. In 2014 he decided to dedicate himself totally to this work and has become a professional photographer from Cagliari, Sardinia. <br />
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Follow Ivan on instagram @ivanpedretti.
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  • Kazakh Cowboy.<br />
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Andrea Bruce is an award winning documentary photographer whose work focuses on people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war's wake.<br />
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Follow Andrea on Instagram @andreabruce.
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  • On February 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica. Thermometers at the Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula reached 18.3°C (64.9°F) The warm weather caused widespread melting on nearby glaciers.<br />
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I imagine all the tiny snowflakes that had fallen over many lifetimes to build this masterpiece and all the life that depends on it. With the loss of sea ice, we face mass extinctions of wildlife and sea-level rise, which will ripple all across the globe.
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  • Air bubbles slowly escape the sea lion. <br />
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I have felt a deep connection with the ocean for as long as I can remember.<br />
Saltwater is in my blood, and when submerged I find peace and wonder. With a<br />
camera in hand I follow lightpaths, diving down into cold free flowing waters. A<br />
handheld torch accompanies my single-breath dives, illuminating instances that<br />
captivate and connect. Whether it be the morning light bouncing off the oceans<br />
surface or the darkness that comes before the moon. There is so much beauty that<br />
it’s hard to look past, I’m drawn to them. Not only to capture but to experience them<br />
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Matt Bagley is a son, brother, father and uncle amongst other things. He grew up in the small coastal fishing town of San Remo, a unique location where the mainland connects to Phillip Island down the south-east coast of Australia.<br />
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Follow Matt on instagram @petrichor.mb.
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  • Horses on Isle of Muck, Scotland.<br />
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Horses on the beach at Isle of Muck Farms at the end of the road on the small island. From here you can see the Isle of Rum.<br />
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Muck is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4 km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mòr. The other settlement on the island is the farm at Gallanach. The island's only road, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, connects the two.<br />
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Jim Richardson is a photographer for National Geographic magazine and TRAVELER where he has produced over fifty stories during his four decade career. His work on environmental issues has focused on issues of food, agriculture and feeding the planet, light pollution’s threat to our night skies, and water issues surrounding rivers and aquifers. He is also noted for his extensive coverage of Scotland and his documentary photography of rural life on the Great Plains.<br />
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Follow Jim on Instagram @jimrichardsonng.
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  • Ural Owl.<br />
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This is a photo that depicts Ural owls' life in a gloomy and dark November, when they don’t have a family to provide for, but only take care of themselves.<br />
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Sven Začek is an Estonian nature photographer, one of the editors-in-chief of the Estonian nature photography magazine Lofo and one of the founders and leaders of the nature and photo portal looduspilt.ee.<br />
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Follow Sven on Instagram at @zacekfoto.
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  • Tree. <br />
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Norbert Rosing has won international awards at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, Nature's Best Magazine (USA), appeared on "Kerner", "Markus Lanz" and "Stern TV" and became known as a nature photographer.<br />
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Follow Norbert on Instagram @norbert_rosing_photography.
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  • Manisa from "Peak".<br />
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Edition: 3/10<br />
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In “Peak” photographer Bastiaan Woudt travels through the mountains of Nepal for a month. An expedition of 26 days takes him to the often uninhabited areas around Mount Annapurna, where he climbs up to almost 6000 meters. It results in a document that shows not only the landscapes and still lifes but also the proud Nepalese people he encounters along the way.<br />
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Bastiaan Woudt (1987, NL) is a sought-after photographer that started a mere ten years ago without formal training. Besides his raw talent, he owes his rise in the art world to a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial edge.<br />
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Follow Bastiaan on instagram @bastiaanwoudt.
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  • From the series "Extraordinary Experiences"<br />
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Definition of haunting: having qualities (such as sadness or beauty) that linger in the memory : not easily forgotten<br />
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Extraordinary experiences ( 2020- ongoing) uses photography as a conduit for emotional interpretation of reality during a time of turmoil.<br />
Created in the streets near where I live, on the traditional lands of the Woi Wurrung ,Bunurong and Boon Wurrung people, the images are made on places of traditional significance that are now open bushland.<br />
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The resulting images come from an intuitive response to my surroundings, the images interplay with photography’s ability to make eternal what is fleeting. Through in camera and in scanner manipulations these images exist through intervention, sometimes by the artist, others by the unseen atmosphere that surrounds what is photographed.<br />
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There are a set of psychological phenomena that can happen to the bereaved, loosely named Extraordinary Experiences. One of them is a visual apparition of or "seeing" the loved one. This work allows me to make tangible those feelings, the apparitions of emotions, memories, and dreams embed grief into the photographs. These images explore the idea of being haunted by the past, of reckoning with history, and the eternity of the natural world.<br />
Morganna Magee is a based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the land of the Woi Wurrung Bunurong and Boon Wurrung people, the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her work has been awarded and exhibited both nationally and internationally recognised by institutions such as The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week. She is a founding member of Lumina Collective an Australian collective of award-winning women and non-binary photographic artists breaking ground in visual storytelling and dissemination.
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  • This particular whale, a female called Zammie, investigated us, played with us, fell asleep and dozed next to us, then did it all in repeat.<br />
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Steve Woods is a passionate photographer using a camera and a voice to document and publicize the wonders of the natural world as well as the threats that it faces. Having a 20 year career as a photographer based on 3 different continents he has been able to support conservation efforts and funding drives as well as numerous magazine articles with subjects ranging from Wolves to Whales, above and below the surface of the ocean. Born in the UK, Steve now resides on the west coast of Canada bringing up a family and lending his voice to subjects that matter.<br />
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Follow Steve on instagram @steve_woods_photography.
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