World Nature Photography Awards 2022

[HansV]

From furry families to fungi: the World Nature Photography awards – in pictures

[stuck]

The one of the iguana reminded me of this shot I took in Singapore.

Ken

[HansV]

A very different kind of iguana!

[Graeme]

Very nice images. Is the Icelandic glacier photo looking down into a hole or looking up out of a hole?

[stuck]

Very nice images. Is the Icelandic glacier photo looking down into a hole or looking up out of a hole?

Looking up surely?

[ChrisGreaves]

From furry families to fungi: the World Nature Photography awards – in pictures

'Injured fur seal’ quite ruined my appetite.
Worse is the fact that when the seal swims forward, it puts stress on any healing that might have been taking place.

This isn't nature; the gash looks as if it were caused by a propeller.
Which means mankind.
Cheers, Chris

[GeoffW]

'Injured fur seal’ quite ruined my appetite.

You were going to eat it?

Which means mankind.

Or man not very kind.

[ChrisGreaves]

'Injured fur seal’ quite ruined my appetite.

You were going to eat it?

It made me blubber.
Cheers, Chris

[stuck]

I have a question for Graeme about the picture of the milky way. I thought to view the milky way (in the northern hemisphere) you had to look south but if you were looking south then you wouldn't see the aurora, is that right? If so then that photo can't be 'real' so it must be a composite of at least two images.



Ken

[Graeme]

Yeah, I had the same thought! The centre of the Milky Way is in the direction of Sagittarius so the most noticeable bit is visible from the Northern hemisphere, in the summer towards the South and as you say, not overhead. But since it's a disc that we're inside of, it's all the way round us, it is visible overhead, in the northern hemisphere, in the winter, but a much less dense section in Auriga. So if we're looking up, is the geezer with the ice picks leaning back and about to abseil down into the hole?

[stuck]

...f we're looking up, is the geezer with the ice picks leaning back and about to abseil down into the hole?

Umm, I'm not talking about the glacier photo, I'm talking about the very last one, 'The Grand Tetons'.

Ken

[Graeme]

[stuck]

Do I understand from your that my reasoning about the last photo ('The Grand Tetons') is correct? That it must be a composite and not something that could actually ever be seen in nature?

Which begs the question how then did it manage to be a winner in a World Nature Photography competition?

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

...how then did it manage to be a winner in a World Nature Photography competition?

Chatbot judges?
Cheers, Chris

[Graeme]

Do I understand from your that my reasoning about the last photo ('The Grand Tetons') is correct?

I'm with you Ken. But I can't confirm which part of the Milky Way we're looking at and I've never been to Wyoming. So I asked my fellow astronomers, no reply as yet:

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/4077 ... hy-awards/