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.)
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.
Narwhals, from Nicklen’s book, Polar Obsession, shot in Nunavut, Canada.
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.
Categories: Photography
Canadian Art Junkie 
I had the pleasure of seeing these on display at The History Museum. Fabulous! must’ve felt amazing shooting them.
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Yes indeed, some of his underwater process shots are incredible. (And BTW, just came back from your blog – beautiful work)
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Very kind! Thank you! and yours has many great variety of things to look at, Just what I look for in a blog!! Good stuff!
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Thanks for posting these, which I had not seen before. Last week I finished Robert Murphy’s Logbook for Grace, which recounts that author’s experiences in 1912-13 aboard a whaling ship off the waters of South Georgia Island and Antarctica. These pictures shed light on that story and the delicate ecosystem in that amazing part of the world.
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You are so right about the importance of the ecosystem, and thank you for the book reference – great tip.
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Reblogged this on Makere's Blog and commented:
Stunning
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Thanks for the re-blog. Appreciated.
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I agree with Resa – so important to the world at large to know what’s happening and to be able to see such images, wow! That first award-winning image looks unreal, as if this is how we might imagine such a scene to look.
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I so agree. His work in northern Canada is particularly relevant as that area undergoes such significant change.
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I think his photographs are fabulous, and the work he is doing incredibly important to us all!
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So true about his work. It’s extremely powerful.
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