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Monster wave surf image wins Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022

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French Polynesia-based photographer, Ben Thouard, has been announced as the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022.
Ben’s incredible image is beautifully composed and full of texture and action. It shows a surfer battling against
one of the heaviest waves in the world, Teahupo’o, which translates as ‘place of skulls’. Chosen from thousands of submissions from around the world, it was the unanimous winner.

The Ocean Photographer of the Year has a simple mission: to shine a light on the beauty of the ocean and the
threats it faces. Category winners include images of posing pods of pilot whales, humans exploring the farthest reaches of the ocean, and recovered reefs booming with biomass. Read on to see more of the winning images.

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Heartbreaking portrait of a woman from Evia wins 2022 Siena International Photo Awards

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Last year, Siena International Photo Awards showed us some of the most moving photos we’ve ever seen. The results of the 2022 contest are now out, and as always – they didn’t disappoint.

This year’s overall winner is the photo titled Woman from Evia, shot by Greek photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis. But other than the overall winner, the contest shares winners and runner-ups across its 11 categories, so there are plenty of stunning photos and videos to admire.

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Otherworldly abstract landscape wins 2022 Epson International Pano Awards

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Epson International Pano Awards has announced the winners of its 2022 contest. And just like the images they shared back in April to inspire you, the winning images are equally powerful and gorgeous.

This year, the winner is Jinyi He from China with three entries in the Open awards. His image The Vein is the overall winner, followed by two more breathtaking landscapes.

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Rare photo of Comet Leonard’s disconnected gas tail wins 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year has announced the winners of its 2022 contest. The overall winner is Gerald Rhemann from Austria. His photo Disconnection Event is a rare image of a piece of Comet Leonard’s gas tail being disconnected and carried away by the solar wind.

Other than Rhemann’s impressive photo which won the overall prize and the Planets, Comets and Asteroids category, the contest has also announced winners and runner-ups in all of its categories. They kindly shared it with DIYP, so we bring you the best of the best from the 14th Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

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Captivating photo of a volcanic fissure wins Drone Photo Awards 2022

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Aerial photography gives us a unique perspective even on the scenes that we see every day. But when they capture powerful moments like volcano eruptions and fissures, they make us gasp in awe.

The Drone Photo Awards contest has shared its 2022 winners, and the overall winner shows a volcanic fissure captured from above. It was shot in Iceland and portrays a secondary fissure happening a few hundred meters from the main crater of Fagradalsfjall volcano during its eruptive phase in September 2021.

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Death of creativity: AI-generated image wins a fine arts competition

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AI text-to-image (even text-to-video) platforms have been a thing for a while now. We’ve seen plenty of creative stuff generated through Midjourney or DALL-E… But what happens when one of them wins a fine arts contest?

Jason Allen recently went viral after winning the first prize in Colorado State Fair’s contest with an AI-generated image. As you can probably imagine, this has made artists shocked and furious. How could he win?! He only typed a short prompt, pressed Enter, and in a minute or so got a picture that won first place. But is it really what the process looked like?

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Photo of graceful cheetah and her cubs wins Black and White Photo Awards 2022 [NSFW]

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If you’re a fan of black and white photography, you’ll enjoy the photos from the Black and White Photo Awards 2022. The contest has just announced this year’s winners with the overall winner being Belgian photographer Johan Willems.

However, there are plenty more wonderful images among category winners and runner-ups. So, let’s check them out and enjoy the art of black and white photography.

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Photo of a “zombie fungus” infecting a fly wins 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution competition

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BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition 2022 has published the results of its annual contest. And the winner is like a scene from a science fiction movie. It shows a “zombie fungus” growing from the body of a dead fly, and it’s a reminder of how impressive nature is, even on its tiniest scale.

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Photographer loses contest prize after another artist claims he’d taken the photo

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Photographer Clancy Gebler Davies won the British Journal of Photography (BJP) Female in Focus Award last year. However, her winning sparked some controversy after another photographer accused her of, well, basically stealing the photo. He claimed that it was he who actually took the shot, and it resulted in the winning image being withdrawn from the Awards completely.

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Gut-wrenching image of a wild cat killing a flamingo wins Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022

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Nature TTL Photographer of the Year has just announced its 2022 winners. Seen as a group, the photos show all sides of nature and wildlife: from tender and magical, to raw and threatening. And when we look at the individual photo that won this year’s contest: it’s all about the latter.

The winning image of Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022 shows a caracal carrying a dead flamingo in its jaws. While we all know this is normal in the wild, the photo isn’t for the faint-hearted. Still, all of the category winners are absolutely stunning, so I invite you to go through this year’s winners and discover both the beauty and the dangers of the world around us.

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