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Nikon and Surfing Australia celebrate the artistry of surfing once again with the 2020 Nikon Surf Photo and Video of the Year contest. Twenty-three finalists were selected from among Australia’s most talented videographers and photographers. In the end, it was Ren McGann who won for his dramatic image, The Right. Capturing the beauty and intensity of surfing, McGann’s photograph stood out against a strong roster of finalists. Snapped just as a wave is about to barrel around a surfer, the photograph has the perfect balance of light and shadow, with the deep blue color of the water set against a dark sky only enhancing the mood. It also has the right combination of the creativity, uniqueness, composition, and drama that the judges were after.

The UK National Parks and Campaign for National Parks have officially crowned the winners of the 2020 National Parks photography competition, awarding the top spot to a striking photo of an Osprey grabbing breakfast “to go” in Cairngorms National Park. The contest this year garnered around 1,700 entries. The winning shot was taken by photographer Pete Stevens, in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park. ''I've always loved being out and about in Scotland and having spent a lot of time in Aviemore and the Cairngorms as I've grown up have being able to keep an eye on how the Osprey numbers have grown as the National Park and other bodies such as the RSPB have increased awareness and protection for them,'' says Stevens.

Aimed at supporting the best regional photographers across more than 60 countries around the globe, the Sony World Photography Awards National has released its list of 2020 winners from a record number of more than 190,000 entries. One photographer from each nation has been honored for a single, stand-alone image and all will showcase their work for a global audience at the renowned Sony World Photography Awards 2020 exhibition, to take place at Somerset House, London, from April 17 to May 4.

500px Blog - 500px Ambassador, Julia Wimmerlin, challenged the 500px community to capture photos of animals expressing human emotions or showing human-like behavior. The end results were amazing, and let’s be honest, super cute.(...)

The awardees are Lucy Copeland Farnsworth, Berenice Abbott, Linda Bean, Katherine Bradford, Edith R. Dixon, Cig Harvey, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Nevelson, Elizabeth Noyce, Molly Neptune Parker, Maureen Rothschild, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, and Marguerite Thomas Zorach. Each of these women has made an outstanding contribution to Maine’s role in American art and will be honored at the Farnsworth’s 2020 Summer Gala on Friday, July 17.

First of all, we would like to congratulate everyone who joined the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition! This competition is one of the most prestigious nature photo contests in the world, and the winning images represent some of the best underwater photographs of the year.(...)