18 April 2020 | New Scientist | 27Views Aperture
Nature’s finest
Nature TTL Photographer
of the Year 2020
Photographers Florian Ledoux,
Robert Page, Dipanjan Pal,
Jesslyn Saw, Brandon YoshizawaTHIS dazzling shot is among the
standout entries to the inaugural
Photographer of the Year competition
by photo website Nature TTL. It was
selected from more than 7000 images
submitted by wildlife photographers
from 117 countries.
Flower Power (left) by Brandon
Yoshizawa was highly commended
in the Landscape category. It shows
the flower-shaped exhaust plume of a
SpaceX rocket illuminated by twilight
in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the
Western US. Yoshizawa said the scene
was “one of the most incredible things
I’ve been able to witness and capture”.
Also highly commended in this
category was a vibrant scene near an
Icelandic mountain (page 29), taken
with a drone by Dipanjan Pal after
he “noticed the blue river perfectly
popping against the black sand”.
The competition’s overall winner
(page 28, top) shows a group of
crabeater seals in Antarctica resting
on the ice after a night of feeding.
Florian Ledoux captured the animals
with a drone, knowing the broken ice
would be a particularly spectacular
backdrop when viewed from the air.
Robert Page was named runner-up
in the Macro category for his image
of a group of damselflies (page 28,
bottom left). He looked for the most
photogenic mating pairs in his local
park in London, choosing this group
for the symmetry of its formation.
While on holiday in Malaysia,
Jesslyn Saw endured tropical heat
and humidity during two days of
early morning stake-outs before
spotting a colourful female jumping
spider peeking out of its nest
(page 28, right). Her image was highly
commended in the Macro category
Entries for next year’s competition
open in December. ❚Gege Li