Canadian photographer Thomas Vijayan won the title for 2021 with his image The World is Going Upside Down of a Borneo orangutan seemingly climbing a tree but on closer inspection is a reflection in the water below the tree. The Nature TTL (Through The Lens) Photographer Of The Year Awards celebrate the very best in nature photography, and this year more than 8,000 images competed in categories ranging from animal portraits to underwater and landscape.
Image Credit: Thomas Vijayan/Nature TTL
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Wild dog pups play in South Africa.
Image Credit: Bence Mate/Nature TTL
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A group of grey langurs enjoy some family time.
Image Credit: Thomas Vijayan/Nature TTL
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Taken in South Africa, a fish is caught in the moment it is snapped up by a crocodile.
Image Credit: Johan Wandrag/Nature TTL
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Portrait of the western lowland gorilla called Kangu, who lives in the semi-free conditions in Lesio Louna reserve in The Republic of Congo. Kangu is now twenty years old, most of which had been spent in London zoo.
Image Credit: Tomasz Szpila/Nature TTL
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A Crimson Sunbird female is seen refreshing herself with the water which is stored in the petal of an ornamental banana flower.
Image Credit: Mousam Ray/Nature TTL
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A barn owl peeks out the door of an old abandoned house.
Image Credit: Jose Luis Ruiz Jimenez/Nature TTL
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As bizarre as it might seem to us, jumping up and down on a giraffe carcass and playing with the tail of a dead animal is as normal as it can be for a curious lion cub.
Image Credit: Charl Stols/ Nature TTL
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Peregrine falcon tackling a starling murmuration.
Image Credit: Thomas Easterbrook /Nature TTL
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Fight in the Mountains.
Image Credit: Raphael Schenker/Nature TTL
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Two salamanders trapped by a predatory norther pitcher plant.
Image Credit: Samantha Stephens/Nature TTL
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Sleepy Polar Bear in Svalbard, Norway.
Image Credit: Dennis Stogsdill/Nature TTL
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A rare type of Aurora over an alpine lake in northern Sweden, far from any disturbing light pollution.
Image Credit: Marcus Westberg/Nature TTL
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On the island of Eigg at sunset, with beautiful colours and stunning clouds moving over the mountains of Rùm island, Scotland.
Image Credit: Luigi Ruoppolo/Nature TTL
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Blue morph Arctic Fox during a brutal day. Gale force winds, sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow made hunting very tough for this individual, so the hungry fox lay down in the hope the storm would soon pass so it could continue its search for food.
Image Credit: David Gibbon/Nature TTL
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The shadow of an ancient Camel Thorn tree reaches out, like a blackened hand to the delicate tracings of the Tsauchab River; yearning for the life that once was.
Image Credit: Jay Roode/Nature TTL
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Winged Family Members.
Image Credit: Kallol Mukherjee/Nature TTL
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Patterns formed by mineral deposits trapped in lagoons.
Image Credit: Fanny Reed/Nature TTL
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A coiled eel photographed in the Phillippines.
Image Credit: Zhi’yue Shi/Nature TTL
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The shadow of fallow deer sketches in front of the starry skies. Within the 45 seconds this image was taken, the movement of the deer covered different parts of the skies, resulting in a ghostly effect.
Image Credit: Bence Máté/Nature TTL
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Geological strangeness on Uttakleiv Beach, Norway, with rocks that look like an eye. The shot is set against the beautiful green of the Northern Lights shining above.
Image Credit: Ivan Pedretti/Nature TTL
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