The Nature Conservancy has announced the winners from its 2023 photo contest. From over 80,000 individual photographers, these are the lucky few to make it to the winners’ gallery.
From the 189,000 entries from 191 countries and territories, two Australian photographers made it on the podium of this year’s contest. Ashley Sykes won third place in the Plants & Fungi category for her enthralling shot of ghost mushrooms, photographed in a coastal woodland area in Gerroa, NSW. Winning third place in the Underwater Life category, Daniel Nicholson captured an incredible shot of a grey reef shark parting the tide of a bait ball in the shallows of the Ningaloo Reef.
The 2023 grand prize was awarded to Tibor Litauszki from Hungary, for his underwater photo of a newt eating freshly-laid frog’s eggs. See why The Nature Conservancy’s efforts are so vital to our natural world in the beauty of the collection below.
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