Photo credit: Jamie Rojo, left, Felix Heintzenberg, right.
Jamie Rojo has been crowned European Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his image, In the Forest of the Monarchs, showing millions of monarch butterflies weighing down fir trees.
The competition is organized by the German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) which received over 18,000 photographers across 38 countries.
The international judging panel picked Rojo’s image for its beautiful illustration of monarch butterflies captured in Mexico’s El Rosario butterfly sanctuary which they travel thousands of miles from North America to overwinter there.
One juror notes that Rojo’s picture offers “a slow awakening to its majesty … a testament to the power of photography.” Rojo’s exact same photo, which he took while on assignment for National Geographic Magazine, also won the California Academy of Sciences BigPicture Photography Competition.
Overall winner of European Wildlife Photographer of the Year ‘Forest of the Monarchs’. | Jamie RojoWinner in the Birds category. A black woodpecker approaches with food for hungry offspring. | Luca MelcarneRunner up in the Birds category. A great tit lands on a car at a ferry terminal in Norway. | Kjell VikestadHighly commended in the Birds category. | Robert HaasmannHighly commended in the Birds category. | Luca LorenzWinner in the Mammals category. A young red fox explores the surroundings of its den in Kent, England. | Robert CanisRunner up in the Mammals category. A polar bear shakes off snowpowder in Hudson Bay, Canada. | Daniel Valverde FernandezHighly commended in the Mammals category. | Felix HeintzenbergWinner in the Other Animals category. A proliferation of willow ermine moth caterpillars in the Netherlands. | Theo BosboomRunner up in the Other Animals category. Wood ants spray formic acid in Germany. | Ingo ArndtWinner in the Plants and Fungi category. A parasol mushroom in Lossiny Ostrov National Park, Russia. | Svetlana IvanenkoRunner up in the Plants and Fungi category. A group of rowan trees high up in the Bieszczady Mountains. | Katarzyna GubrynowiczWinner in the Landscapes category. The famous sugar dunes on the coast of the Arabian Sea. | FarbenprachtRunner up in the Landscapes category. Sand in the Sahara, something you will find plenty of there. | Ugo MelloneWinner in the Underwater World category. A common octopus crawls the seabed. | Angel FitorWinner in the Underwater World category. Frogs reproduce in an Italian pond. | Francesco VisintinWinner in the Men and Nature category. A sanctuary for the Montseny brook newt. | Jaime CulebrasRunner up in the Men and Nature category. Ducklings are ushered across the road in Warsaw, Poland. | Grzegorz DlugoszWinner in the Nature’s Studio category. A mosaic of puddles on a drained lakebed. | Adam FathRunner up in the Nature’s Studio category. A great flamingo seen through a spider’s web. | Jan Lessman
The winners were announced on October 25. An exhibition showing all the winning images will tour through Germany and several other European countries. Head to the GDT website to see all the runners and riders.
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