The HIPA Nature competition has announced its winners, and a photo of a diving gannet took home the biggest cash prize in the world.
A gannet dives into the water at 60 miles per hour. The image was the Grand Prize winner of the Hamdan International Photography Nature Award | Henley Spiers/HIPANature competition has announced its winners with British photographer Henley Spiers taking home the coveted grand prize of $120,000.
“The photograph was captured on my very first day visiting Shetland, the northernmost location in the United Kingdom, a cold, harsh, and wild place of which I have grown extremely fond,”“This photograph is captured underwater, surrounded by diving gannets and I tried to display the controlled violence of the scene with a photograph which goes beyond what is seen by the naked eye.
A species of Mollusca Gastropoda larvae encountered at night near Komi Island, in Okinawa, Japan. First place in the nature category | Ryo Minemizu/HIPA
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