Come di consueto National Geographic ha pubblicato i vincitori dell’omonimo Photo Contest. Lo scorso anno sono state 13.000 le foto inviate da tutto il mondo. Tra tutte queste, dopo un’attenta analisi, solo 13 hanno ricevuto l’ambito premio.
Il primo premio, consistente in un “assegno” da 10.000 dollari e un viaggio a Washington D.C., è andato a James Smart con lo scatto intitolato “Dirt”.
“Dirt” | “A rare and jaw-dropping anti-cyclonic tornado touches down in open farmland, narrowly missing a home near Simla, Colorado.” | Simla, Colorado, United States | James Smart“Orangutan in the Rain” | “I was taking photos of orangutans in Bali, Indonesia, when it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this orangutan take a taro leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this spontaneous magic moment.” | Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia | Andrew Suryono“Acrobats of the Air” | “A flock of Alpine choughs (Pyrrhocorax graculus), a species of mountain-dwelling bird, performs acrobatic displays in the air. During a windy day, I was able to immortalize their impressive flight skills.” | Appenzell, Canton d’Appenzell Rhoden-Interieur, Switzerland | Alessandra Meniconzi“Changing Shifts” | “In Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the cubs of the famous cheetah Malaika learned to hunt. They moved from one hill to another, scanning the lands. Here, they seemed to change shifts as one cheetah left the hill while another took her place.” | Masai Mara, Rift Valley, Kenya | Mohammed Yousef“Colorful Chaos” | “White-fronted bee-eaters gather on a bough before going to sleep in their burrows, scraped into a sand wall. I was working on this theme for 18 days, as there were only five to ten minutes each day when the light conditions were appropriate. Ninety percent of my efforts to capture this image were not successful. I used flashlights to light the bee-eaters sitting on the branch, but not the others flying above. At this angle, the backlight generated rainbow coloring through the wings of the flying birds.” | Mkuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Bence Mate“Surrealist Painting in Nature” | “As the largest system of mountain ranges in Central Asia, Tian Shan—which translates to “sky-mountain” in Chinese—has one of the best collections of natural landscapes in the world and is considered a paradise for outdoor adventures. Thanks to the richness of the land’s sediments, compounded by the power of erosion caused by rivers flowing down the mountains, the north face of Tian Shan is carved into stunning plateaus and colorful canyons hundreds of meters deep, resulting in this surrealist painting in nature.” | Shihezi, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China | Tugo Cheng“Asteroid” | “While preparing a report on Spain’s Rio Tinto from the air, I decided to include the phosphogypsum ponds located in the marshes of red, whose radioactive discharges has destroyed part of the marsh. As an environmental photojournalist I had to report this story, but had to do it with an image that by itself attracts the viewer’s attention. On a low-flying training flight, this image caught my attention for its resemblance to the impact of an asteroid on its green waters.” | Cardeñas, Andalusia, Spain | Francisco Mingorance“Hill of Crosses” | “There are many hundreds of thousands of crosses on the Hill of Crosses near Šiauliai, Lithuania. It represents Lithuanian Catholicism’s peaceful resistance to oppression. Many spirits of the dead are thought to live here on this small hill. When I visited this place, a girl in a pink dress ran through as if she brought peace, hope, and love.” | Šiauliai, Siauliu Apskritis, Lithuania | Hideki Mizuta“From Generation to Generation” | “This photo was taken during Chinese New Year’s Eve of 2015 in Taiwan. I noticed how the light was coming into the room as our family members passed incense sticks to each other, sending our prayers and paying respects to our ancestors. The photo is symbolic, as the passing of incense sticks represents the knowledge and wisdom passed down from generation to generation.” | Shalu, Taiwan, Taiwan | Jackson Hung
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