Photography

Paul Nicklen’s World Press Photo Winning Shot

Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Bubble-jetting emperors

British Columbia photographer Paul Nicklen has won the top prize in the nature category of the World Press Photo contest – for this shot of emperor penguins in Antarctica’s Ross Sea for National Geographic magazine.  It’s a phenomenal shot (see a Canadian Press article here.)

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Nicklen uses his camera to chronicle a world melting away under global warming. He has specialized in photographing polar regions since 1995, shooting a dozen National Geographic stories and covers to date (see their profile on him, here.) The image above is also from the penguin series.

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Narwhals, from Nicklen’s book, Polar Obsession, shot in Nunavut, Canada.

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Above: in the water on one of his shoots.

Go here for a narrated account of the penguin shoot.

Paul Nicklen’s website, here.

His Facebook, here.

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