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Moving photos of the world’s last Northern White white rhino and her keeper win 2022 Travel Photographer of the Year

Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) is one of those contests that takes you on a journey around the globe without you leaving your chair. The 2022 results have been announced, and like every year, it’s treated us with a selection of marvelous photos from all over the world.

This year’s winning photos show an extraordinary companionship between one of the world’s last two remaining Northern White rhinos and her keeper. And other than these moving portraits, TPOTY brings us many more stunning images, so let’s enjoy them together.

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This close up portrait of an avalanche rescue dog wins Dog Photography Award 2022

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This engaging close-up of an avalanche rescue dog in Switzerland has won the portrait and landscape category of the Dog Photography Awards 2022. The image was captured by photographer Dalia Fichmann who accompanied an avalanche rescue team into the mountains and lay inside an ice cave, letting the dog find her. The result is an engaging and extraordinary image.

The Dog Photography Awards is an annual competition open to all photographers around the world. This year, the awards were divided into four categories: Portrait and Landscape, Studio, Action, and Dogs and People. The 2022 edition saw over 1400 applications from 50 different countries. Here are the rest of the winning entries.

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Close-up of octopus mom and her babies win 2022 Ocean Art underwater photo contest

The Underwater Photography Guide has announced the results of its Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition for 2022. One of the world’s largest underwater photo contests hasn’t disappointed, and ahead of you is a selection of marvelous photos taken in the underwater realm.

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Sony World Photography Awards shares stunning Student and Youth shortlists for 2023

While we anxiously wait for the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards, the World Photography Organisation has a bit of a teaser. The organization has just announced the shortlisted photos in the Student and Youth competitions, and they give you a glimpse of the images you might see when the winners are announced.

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Picture of salamanders consumed by carnivorous plant wins 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year

Close-Up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) is one of those contests I always look forward to. To start off the new year with lots of inspiring images, the competition has shared its winners and runner-ups, and they’re absolutely stunning.

Canadian photographer Samantha Stephens is the overall winner of this year’s contest, and her striking image shows something you don’t see every day: a pair of salamanders being consumed by a carnivorous pitcher plant. As always, there are plenty more of great photos among the category winners, so let’s dive in and check them out.

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Top ten photography contest articles for 2022

Photography contests are a great opportunity to win valuable prizes and have your work officially recognized. And even if you don’t normally submit your photos to competitions, you’ll still find them usefus: they let you discover plenty of new photographers whose work you’ll love.

Here at DIYP, we bring you results of dozens of different photo contests throughout the year. In 2022, we saw more amazing photos than we can count, and we thought they deserve a recap. So, we bring you our top ten photo contests, with photos that moved us, amazed us, made us cry, and made us laugh.

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Polar bears took over an abandoned house and won Nature Photographer of the Year 2022

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Nature Talks has announced the results of the Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 competition. This year, polar bears took the victory. Okay, not literally: it was Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh who took the photos of these animals in quite an unusual setting. His remarkable image House of Bears shows a polar bear in an abandoned weather station. And yes, you saw the entire series on DIYP earlier this year!

Of course, there are plenty other stunning photos among category winners, runner-ups and highly commended images. Folks at the Nature Photographer of the Year shared them with DIYP, so let’s check them out.

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Image of a clumsy lion cub wins Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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The funniest photography competition in the world has announced its winners for 2022. Yes, of course, it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards!

This year, the title of the funniest image was rewarded to Jennifer Hadley for her photo of a clumsy little lion. While cats, both wild and domestic, are known for exquisite reflexes, this one is… well, not so graceful. As always, there are more hilarious shots among category winners, so let’s check them out together and improve this day, shall we?

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The best Northern Lights photos of 2022 are absolutely spectacular

The northern lights have been spectacular this year and spotted in places where they usually aren’t seen. So, what do you think, how spectacular must be the best photos from the 2022 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year?

Well, we have an answer to that. Capture the Atlas has published the results of its annual northern lights photo contest. And yes, it’s just as you assumed: the selected photos are beyond beautiful!

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Mystical portrait of Helena’s tree frog wins Capturing Ecology 2022 contest

British Ecological Society has published the 2022 winners of its annual photo contest, Capturing Ecology. And like every year, the selected images feature different subjects and convey different emotions: from the thrilling chase of a hungry leopard, to the blissful calm of a bird floating on water.

This year’s overall winner is a portrait of a Helena’s tree frog and its glowing golden eyes of piercing through the darkness. Other than this incredibly artistic frog close-up, the contest showcases plenty more stunning images, so let’s check them out!

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