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GDT 2024 Photography Winners Unveil Nature’s Beauty (21 Pics)
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Nature is the most beautiful ever-changing phenomenon, and many photographers try to capture its fleeting moments. To celebrate those artists, The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has announced their winning pictures of the year 2024.
Contestants were able to submit their work in the following seven categories: Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, Landscapes, and Nature's Studio. In this year's competition, Dieter Damschen was nominated as the photographer of the year with the photo "Winter flood in a riparian forest".
Down below we have shared other 21 winners from all the categories, and if you would like to see more photos, take a look here.
More info: gdtfoto.de | Instagram
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#1
Category Mammals, 8th Place Winner: "In The Eye Of The Cheetah" By Monika Morlak
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#2
Category Nature's Studio, 2nd Place Winner: "Aerobatics In The Morning Light" By Christian Brinkmann
#3
Category Mammals, 1st Place Winner: "Bubblenet" By Scott Portelli
#4
Category Birds, 1st Place Winner: "Surfing On The Other Side" By Levi Fitze
#5
Category Other Animals, 2nd Place Winner: "Tasting The Air" By Kai Kolodziej
#6
Category Landscapes, 1st Place Winner: "Birches In Autumn" By Felix Wesch
#7
Category Mammals, 2nd Place Winner: "Eyes Shut And Waiting For Spring" By Flurin Leugger
#8
Overall Winner: "Winter Flood In A Riparian Forest" By Dieter Damschen
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
Absolutely gorgeous...reminds me of an Ansel Adams picture that I love
#9
Category Birds, 2nd Place Winner: "Incoming" By Marion Vollborn
#10
Category Mammals, 3rd Place Winner: "Pandemonium" By Manfred Foeger
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
This photograph looks like an ancient Chinese painting, or an even more ancient cave painting!
#11
Special Category: All Things Flow - Germany's River Landscapes, 2nd Place Winner: "Isar Floodplain In Morning Fog" By Andreas Volz
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
So beautiful...makes me want to go rough camping way way out in nature away from everything. Morning chill, cooking breakfast on a campfire, sipping my coffee, living the dream!
#12
Category Other Animals, 1st Place Winner: "Thread Winged" By Gerald Haas
#13
Category Plants And Fungi, 2nd Place Winner: "Frozen Bell(E)" By Sigi Zang
#14
Category Plants And Fungi, 7th Place Winner: "Blue Hour" By Wolfgang Veeser
#15
Category Nature's Studio, 1st Place Winner: "Flag Tree" By Marte Engelbrecht
#16
Category Mammals, 5th Place Winner: "Whiskers" By Luca Lorenz
#17
Category Landscapes, 2nd Place Winner: "Marble" By Florian Smit
#18
Category Plants And Fungi, 3rd Place Winner: "Chaos" By Jan Lessmann
Kelly H. Wilder 2 years ago
Oh, the fun we had as children making wishes on these! We didn't realize we were helping Mother Nature.
#19
Category Nature's Studio, 8th Place Winner: "Tree Ballet" By Hermann Hirsch
#20
Prize Of The Jury: "Predator And Prey" By Jan Sohler
#21
Category Plants And Fungi, 1st Place Winner: "Arrowhead" By Heike Odermatt
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Lotekguy 2 years ago
I would have appreciated more descriptions of what these were. Several were beautiful, but baffling.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
If you right click on them and do an "image search with Google" you can get more information on the pictures. I searched a few of them myself just to satisfy my own curiosity.
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Lotekguy 2 years ago
I would have appreciated more descriptions of what these were. Several were beautiful, but baffling.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
If you right click on them and do an "image search with Google" you can get more information on the pictures. I searched a few of them myself just to satisfy my own curiosity.
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