This competition, currently in its sixth year, recognizes some of the most impressive talent behind lenses from around the world.
Many of these photographs are also available for purchase as framed prints on the World Nature Photography Awards site – so if you like what you see, you can bring these beauties home to grace your walls. It's also a good place to view all this year's winners. In the meantime, you can see below the Grand Prize winner and a handful of OGN's favourites.
For 2025, the title of World Nature Photographer of the Year goes to Maruša Puhek from Slovenia. Her painting-like picture below shows a pair of deer breaking a canvas-wide pattern as they run through a snowy vineyard.
Jake Mosher from the US snapped up the gold in the Planet Earth’s Landscapes and Environments category with the image below a photo of the summer Milky Way reflected in Montana's Hyalite Lake.
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