15 best nature photos according to the Capturing Ecology 2023 competition

British Environmental Society announced winners of Capturing Ecology, an annual photo competition dedicated to the nature of the Earth and the dangers that threaten it. In each category, the work of professionals and students was evaluated separately.

Best Photo

The presence of the damselfish in this photo of sea coral is revealed only by its eye.

Best photo (students)

An aerial photo of a flamingo on an algae-covered lake in Kenya.

Best animal photo

Photo of two northern gannets. The individual on the right has a huge dilated pupil due to bird flu.

Best animal photo (students)

Gliding tree frogs laying eggs on leaves somewhere in Costa Rica.

Best photo of plants or mushrooms

Pictured are quiver trees in the drought-stricken hills of Namibia. Once upon a time there was a whole forest here.

Best photo of plants or mushrooms (students)

Silver birch forest in the Scottish Cairngorms National Park.

Best photo in the category “Connections in Nature”

An Indian giant squirrel (this is a species name, not a description) came to eat jackfruit.

Best photo in the “Wide View” category

Another photo of flamingos - also from Kenya.

Best photo in the “Wide View” category (students)

A school of chromis fish swimming above the coral in Papua New Guinea.

Best photo in the category “People and Nature”

The bright red and blue plumage of the crimson rosella is similar to the coloring of the model airplane behind it.

Worth mentioning

Images that did not win in their categories, but were separately noted by the jury.

It looks like something out of Tim Burton, but it's actually just twisted twigs of the teasel plant.

Birch branches covered with frost, giving the forest a silvery color.

A guillemot chick jumps from a cliff - this is its first flight to the water.

This is natural food delivery.

The Australian golden bowerbird blends into the black background - only the orange and bright yellow eyes, beak and plumage spots stand out.