25 winners of the World Nature Photography Awards 2024 (26 photos)

Beautiful wildlife photography continues to show us a different side of the world. This year's World Nature Photography Awards consisted of 14 categories, and the top prize went to Tracey Lund, who captured two gannets underwater and entered the photograph in the Behavior - Birds category.





1. “Lynx Jump”, Thomas Vijayan, 2nd place in the category “Animals in their habitat”



2. “Graceful U-Turn”, Richard Lee, 1st place in the category “Black and White”

3. “Head Massage”, John Sager, 1st place in the category “Behavior - Amphibians and Reptiles”



4. “Buffalo Starling (Voloklyuy) and Water Buffalo”, Lakshitha Karunarathna, 2nd place in the category “Behavior - Birds”



5. “A Swan Named Aino”, Jouni Erola, 3rd place in the category “Behavior - Birds”



6. “Crowd Control”, Andy Schmid, 1st place in the “Underwater” category



7. “Perfect Cloud”, Francisco Negroni, 2nd place in the category “Landscapes and Environment of Planet Earth”



8. “Reaching the Top”, Lukas Walter, 3rd place in the category “Behavior - Mammals”



9. “Not So Silent Hill”, Panagiotis Dalagiorgos, 2nd place in the category “Behavior - Invertebrates”



10. “Similar”, Michael Stavrakakis, 2nd place in the category “Animal Portraits”



11. “Aspens”, Robert Ross, 2nd place in the category “Natural creativity”



12. “Difference”, Ivan Pedretti, 1st place in the category “Landscapes and Environment of Planet Earth”



13. “Under a Mother’s Care,” Tom Way, 2nd place in the “Black and White” category



14. “Ions and water over Godafoss”, Kari Letelier, 3rd place in the category “Landscapes and the environment of planet Earth”



15. "Gannets Underwater" by Tracy Lund, Grand Winner and Gold Medalist in the Behavior - Birds Category



16. “Bloody Himalayan Vulture”, Partha Roy, 3rd place in the category “Animal Portraits”



17. “Treasure of the Earth”, Mickey Spitzer, 1st place in the category “Nature creativity”



18. “Anglefish (anglerfish)”, Nicolas Remy, 1st place in the category “Animal Portraits”



19. “Light in Light”, Giovanni Crisafulli, 3rd place in the category “Underwater photography”



20. “Catch of the Day”, Ioannis Pavlos Evangelidis, 1st place in the category “People and Nature”



21. “Owl-like plant”, Chatri Lertsinthanakorn, 1st place in the “Plants and Mushrooms” category



22. “Life on the edge of a cliff”, Amit Eshel, 1st place in the category “Animals in their habitat”



23. “Last Seconds”, Alex Brekx, 1st place in the category “Behavior - Mammals”



24. “Rainbow at Dawn”, Martin Stevens, 2nd place in the category “Plants and Mushrooms”



25. “In Pursuit of Nature”, Hira Punjabi, 3rd place in the category “People and Nature”