Nature—Week 9 Gallery
Browse our editors' favorite submissions to the photo contest.
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- Forsaken
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- A happy scenery suddenly turns into tragedy. A giraffe family is drinking water at one of the rare water pits during dry season in Namibia when suddenly a storm approaches. Father and mother are starting to run away, however, their child is hesitant and stays behind. Later it helplessly starts looking for his parents, but they are nowhere to be seen. The small giraffe’s vision is blurred by the sandstorm.
Photo and caption by Katharina Spiegl
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- during the winter months, sardines gather in the waters of the mexican caribbean. dozens of sailfish follow to hunt them by pushing them into tight balls against the surface. at the same time frigate birds prey on them from above the surface. very few sardines get away.
Photo and caption by Rodrigo Friscione
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- 2 million of Bramblings
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- I captured this image in last winter in a forest near a mountain port in the basque country.There was a roost of about 2 million of bramblings, at dusk arrived endless bands of these birds, it was an incrideble show. I used a slow shutter speed to capture the effect of motion of the flying birds while portraying those who were perched.
Photo and caption by iñigo jimenez
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- Trees cocooned in spiders webs after flooding in Pakistan, 7 December 2010
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- Trees cocooned in spiders webs after flooding in Pakistan, 7 December 2010
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- An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitos was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods.
Photo and caption by Russell Watkins
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- Out of the dark
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- Every year in June and July a species of a small torpedo shaped shark gathers in one of the sink holes in the Bahamas to mate. I was down in the hole at 130 feet in a near complete darkness when suddenly hundreds of sharks swam out of the dark. As soon as they realized my presence they took off.
Photo and caption by Aleksandra Bartnicka
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- Good morning
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- Jabulani the elephant greeting his caretaker, Stavros Chakoma, before heading out on safari.
Photo and caption by paula durham
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- Hugging Siblings
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- Across the large colony, most of the pairs of Gentoo penguin chicks had their head tucked under the mother, looking like a pair of grey fluffy slippers, while others were feeding. This pair however were lounging around and appeared to be hugging.
Photo and caption by Dale Connolly
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- Embraced
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- I pass this tiny island every day, but never seen it as beautiful as this day in October when the thick mist made it look like an illusion, non existing but yet there.
Photo and caption by susanna porter öhman
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- Winter lollipops
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- Winter is extremely beautiful in Lithuania. It was an early morning and minus 25 degrees Celsius outside. This landscape feels out of this world, but in fact it's in the outskirts of my home city, Kaunas—just a mile away from my house. Oftentimes beauty lies just a step away from our door :)
Photo and caption by Matas Jūras
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- Red Maple
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- The sun was getting low and this anhinga was settling in for the night. Because I was looking into the sun, I had to wait for clouds to soften the skies in the background. One of the largest stands of red maples in Florida is found at Sawgrass Lake, and the emerging red buds provided contrast with the "water turkey." Because the bird was in breeding plumage, the normally mundane looking anhinga on a cloudy winter afternoon provided a captivating image...
Photo and caption by jim gray
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