This year saw plenty of new lenses released, including several excellent zooms. We’ve used a lot of them, but we want to hear from you – what were your favorite zoom lenses of 2017?
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Have your say: Best high-end ILC of 2017
17
Dec
Time is running out to vote for your favorite cameras and lenses in our year-end Readers’ Choice Awards! In this category, we’ve rounded up the seven of the best high-end interchangeable lens cameras for enthusiasts and pros.
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Have your say: Best entry-level ILC of 2017
16
Dec
The most important camera you’ll ever own is the first one you buy. This year was relatively quiet on the entry-level ILC front, but the quality of the cameras released in this market segment was universally excellent. Vote while you can – polls close Monday!
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Have your say: Best mid-range ILC of 2017
16
Dec
This year saw several cameras released in the mid-range ILC class, from full-frame DSLRs to super-compact APS-C mirrorless models. Take a look for a reminder of the key mid-range ILCs released in 2017, and don’t forget to vote for your favorites.
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Have your say: Best prime lens of 2017
15
Dec
The year 2017 was great for prime lens shooters. Based on reader interest and preferences, we’ve got a whopping twenty lenses for this category of our year-end reader polls. Vote now for your favorite!
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These are the winners of Nat Geo’s Nature Photographer of the Year 2017
14
Dec
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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National Geographic has revealed the winners of their annual Nature Photographer of the Year contest, and as usual, every photo from the Grand Prize winner all the way to the Honorable Mentions and People’s Choice awards are fantastic.
The Grand Prize this year—and title of Nature Photographer of the Year—went to Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan of Singapore, who captured an intense wildlife portrait of an orangutan crossing a river in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park. The photo, titled “Face to Face in a River in Borneo,” was selected from over 11,000 entries and earns Bojan $ 10,000 in prize money, in addition to his image showing up in an upcoming issue of National Geographic.
Speaking of the moment he captured the shot, Bojan told Nat Geo:
Honestly, sometimes you just go blind when things like this happen. You’re so caught up. You really don’t know what’s happening. You don’t feel the pain, you don’t feel the mosquito bites, you don’t feel the cold, because your mind is completely lost in what’s happening in front of you.
You can see Bojan’s grand prize winning image, as well as every 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and People’s Choice winner in the slideshow above, or by visiting the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year website.
Press Release
National Geographic Announces Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest
WASHINGTON (Dec. 12, 2017) – Selected from over 11,000 entries, a wildlife photo of an orangutan crossing a river in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park has been selected as the grand-prize winner of the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest. The photo, titled “Face to face in a river in Borneo,” was captured by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan of Singapore. He has won $ 10,000 and will have his winning image published in an upcoming issue of National Geographic magazine and featured on the @NatGeo Instagram account.
Bojan took the winning photo after waiting patiently in the Sekoyner River in Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo, Indonesia. After spending several days on a houseboat photographing orangutans in the park, Bojan learned of a location where a male orangutan had crossed the river – unusual behavior that he knew he had to capture. After waiting a day and night near the suspected location, a ranger spotted the orangutan the next morning at a spot a few minutes up the river. As they drew near, Bojan decided to get into the water so the boat did not scare the primate. About five feet deep in a river supposedly home to freshwater crocodiles, Bojan captured the photo when the orangutan peeked out from behind a tree to see if the photographer was still there.
On capturing the photo, Bojan said, “Honestly, sometimes you just go blind when things like this happen. You’re so caught up. You really don’t know what’s happening. You don’t feel the pain, you don’t feel the mosquito bites, you don’t feel the cold, because your mind is completely lost in what’s happening in front of you.”
Karim Iliya of Haiku, Hawaii, won first place in the Landscapes category for a photo from Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park; Jim Obester of Vancouver, Wash., won first place in the Underwater category for a photo of an anemone; and Todd Kennedy of New South Wales, Australia, won first place in the Aerials category for a photo of a rock pool in Sydney at high tide.
The judges for the contest were National Geographic magazine’s senior photo editor of natural history assignments, Kathy Moran, National Geographic photographer Anand Varma, and photographer Michaela Skovranova.
Contestants submitted photographs in four categories – Wildlife, Landscape, Aerials and Underwater – through National Geographic’s photography community, Your Shot. All of the winning photos, along with the honorable mentions, may be viewed at natgeo.com/photocontest.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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1st Place | Wildlife and Grand Prize Winner
Photo © Jayprakash Joghee Bojan, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A male orangutan peers from behind a tree while crossing a river in Borneo, Indonesia.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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1st Place | Underwater
Photo © Jim Obester, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Jim Obester, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Blue-filtered strobe lights stimulate fluorescent pigments in the clear tentacles of a tube-dwelling anemone in Hood Canal, Washington.
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1st Place | Landscapes
Photo © Karim Iliya, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Karim Iliya, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Shortly before twilight in Kalapana, Hawai’i, a fragment of the cooled lava tube broke away, leaving the molten rock to fan in a fiery spray for less than half an hour before returning to a steady flow.
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1st Place | Aerials
Photo © Todd Kennedy, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Todd Kennedy, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
In Sydney, Australia, the Pacific Ocean at high tide breaks over a natural rock pool enlarged in the 1930s. Avoiding the crowds at the city’s many beaches, a local swims laps.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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2nd Place | Wildlife
Photo © Alejandro Prieto, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Alejandro Prieto, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
An adult Caribbean pink flamingo feeds a chick in Yucatán, Mexico. Both parents alternate feeding chicks, at first with a liquid baby food called crop milk, and then with regurgitated food.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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2nd Place | Underwater
Photo © Shane Gross, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Shane Gross, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Typically a shy species, a Caribbean reef shark investigates a remote-triggered camera in Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen marine protected area.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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2nd Place | Landscapes
Photo © Yuhan Liao, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Yuhan Liao, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Sunlight glances off mineral strata of different colors in Dushanzi Grand Canyon, China.
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2nd Place | Aerials
Photo © Takahiro Bessho, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Takahiro Bessho, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Snow-covered metasequoia trees, also called dawn redwoods, interlace over a road in Takashima, Japan.
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3rd Place | Wildlife
Photo © Bence Mate, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Bence Mate, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Two grey herons spar as a white-tailed eagle looks on in Hungary.
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3rd Place | Underwater
Photo © Michael Patrick O’Neill, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Michael Patrick O’Neill, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Buoyed by the Gulf Stream, a flying fish arcs through the night-dark water five miles off Palm Beach, Florida.
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3rd Place | Landscapes
Photo © Mike Olbinski, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Mike Olbinski Photography, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A summer thunderstorm unleashes lightning on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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3rd Place | Aerials
Photo © Greg C., 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Greg C., 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
On the flanks of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai’i, the world’s only lava ocean entry spills molten rock into the Pacific Ocean. After erupting in early 2016, the lava flow took about two months to reach the sea, six miles away.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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People’s Choice | Wildlife
Photo © Harry Collins, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Harry Collins, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A great gray owl swoops to kill in a New Hampshire field.
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People’s Choice | Underwater
Photo © Matthew Smith, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Matthew Smith, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A Portuguese man-of-war nears the beach on a summer morning; thousands of these jellyfish wash up on Australia’s eastern coast every year.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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People’s Choice | Landscapes
Photo © Wojciech Kruczynski, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by Wojciech Kruczy?ski, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Sunset illuminates a lighthouse and rainbow in the Faroe Islands.
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners
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People’s Choice | Aerials
Photo © David Swindler, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photograph by David Swindler, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Green vegetation blooms at the river’s edge, or riparian, zone of a meandering canyon in Utah.
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Have your say: Best smartphone of 2017
13
Dec
This year was a busy one for smartphone manufacturers, with major new handsets released from all of the big players. Take a look at some of 2017’s noteworthy new phones, and vote for your favorite!
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Smartphones dominated Flickr’s 2017 uploads, but DSLRs are on the rise
13
Dec
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The iPhone has dominated Flickr’s annual ‘top devices’ list, representing 54% of the site’s top 100 devices in 2017, as well as the majority of the site’s 10 top devices list. These figures were published as part of Flickr’s end-of-year analysis, in which the platform reveals what cameras are most popular among its users, as well as highlighting the site’s top photos of the year.
Flickr’s 2017 Year in Review report shows that smartphones were once again the device of choice among the site’s users, increasing from 48% in 2016 to a full 50% of uploads in 2017.
But it’s not all smartphones this and smartphones that. In fact, DSLRs were used to take 33% of the images uploaded to Flickr this year compared to just 25% in 2016. And in an utterly predictable turn of events, the use of point-and-shoot cameras dropped from 2016’s 21% to a paltry 12% this year.
Mirrorless cameras were the only ones to hold steady, boasting just 4% of uploads in both 2016 and 2017.
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Looking at brands specifically, Apple dominates Flickr’s 2017 annual review, with its iPhone representing 54% of the top 100 devices of the year. Flickr says that 9 of the top 10 devices were iPhone models; only the Canon 5D Mark III tarnished that record, coming in at #9. Canon, overall, was the second biggest brand on Flickr this year, accounting for 23% of the top 100 devices. Nikon came in third at 18%.
Flickr has a very large user base at 75 million, making its annual report a notable insight into which devices are most popular with the general public. Just like its top 25 photos of the year give us an idea of the photographic styles that appeal to the most people.
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Our favorite finalists from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
13
Dec
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Later this week, on December 14th, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards will reveal the winning photos for 2017, each chosen from a pool of 40 finalists revealed earlier this month. The 40 images showcase fun and funny scenes captured by wildlife photographers around the globe: singing elephant seals, a laughing mouse, macaques on a motorbike, and more.
More than 3,500 images were submitted to the competition this year.
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards goes by the tagline “conservation through competition,” providing photographers with an lighthearted contest through which they can share fun photos of wildlife while helping raise conservation awareness.
You can see our favorite finalists in the gallery above, then head over to the contest’s website to see all 40, view a gallery of last year’s wildlife comedy finalists, or check out the 2015 and 2016 winners.
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Have your say: Best compact camera of 2017
12
Dec
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: time to vote for your favorite cameras and lenses in our year-end Readers’ Choice Awards. It certainly was a good year for compact cameras – cast your vote before the polls close!
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