Sunday, October 3, 2010

2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year Winners

National Geographic Channel named the Best Eco-Photos of 2010.

 Over all Winner: Flight of the Rays 
Flight of the Rays

This aerial image of Munk's devil rays is the winner  for the Underworld Category and the overall winner of the 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards.

Photographer Florian Schulz of Germany took this amazing picture as the Munk's devil rays crowd the Sea of Cortez off Mexico's Baja California Sur state map in 2009.

Munk's devil rays are listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation Union, partly because to their vulnerability to gill nets. Imagine how many devil rays could be captured with a single net.



Underwater-World Finalist: Hide And Seek
Hide and Seek

Estonian photographer Kaido Haagen took this picture of a gray seal poking its head through the clouds of plant life. 




Underwater-World Finalist: Birthplace
Birthplace 

Taken by underwater photographer Bela Nasfay, this picture shows clumps of common frog tadpole eggs on the bottom of a spring-fed Hungarian mountain lake.





Under-21 Winner: The Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller 

Bulgarian photographer Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov won the top prize for "Under 21" category of the 2010 Young Environmental Photographer of the Year Award with this picture of a fly that rubs a bead of water, which looks like a crystal ball, in his backyard. 




Quality-of-Life Winner: Life for Rent
Life for Rent 

A man makes eye contact with Nodi, a 15-year-old sex worker at a brothel in Fardipur, Bangladesh, in G.M.B. Akash's winning picture. Nodi was sold to the brothel by her stepmother.





Innovation-in-the-Environment Winner: Bioremidiation
Bioremidiation

This winning picture by Rowan E. Bestmann captures channels and causeways in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, constructed to purify local gray water — wastewater from household activities such as bathing and laundering—for reuse.





Natural-World Winner: Fly to Eye
Fly to Eye

A green pit viper eyes a hummingbird in Hungarian photographer Bence Mate's winning picture. 





Natural-World Finalist: Backwash
Backwash 

Like an erupting Mount Fuji, a wave takes on a perfect, peaked form in a winning picture by Australian photographer Julienne Bowser, who snapped the image at Snapper Rocks on the Queensland coast.





View-of-the-Western-World Winner: Waste Not Want Not
Waste Not Want Not

Supermarket workers purge thawed food from powerless freezers in the wake of the biggest floods in decades to wash through the rural town of Charleville, Australia—as captured by Rowan E. Bestmann, who also won the "Innovation in the Environment" category.

The March 2010 floods were triggered when a monsoonal low dumped heavy rains in southwestern Queensland state, ending several years of drought.


Photo Credits: National Geographic Channel


    

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