Latest about Awards and Competitions
"I've never seen anything like it": photographer captures haunting contrast between life and death as Northern Gannet hangs from fishing line beneath nesting cliffs – the image now wins prestigious conservation award
NEWS Wildlife photographer's powerful monochromatic image, showing a dead Northern Gannet hanging from discarded fishing line beneath a nesting colony has won a major award
"I spent 10 days scouting and waiting at the Halema'uma'u Crater before the Kīlauea volcano erupted," says award-winning nature photographer who captured a white-tailed tropicbird rising above volcanic gases and red lava
NEWS This photographer captures birds in spectacular environments, and his powerful shot of a tropicbird at the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park has now won the top prize in the Birds in Landscapes category at the Audubon Photography Awards
"I walked for hours through a unique desert landscape in northern Chile, where the rugged terrain traps sea mist in ravines" – Photographer's rare shot of 'the ghost of the desert' honored with major wildlife award
NEWS Francisco Castro Escobar approached Chile's largest owl slowly, silently and patiently, to capture this award-winning image showing the bird of prey with its yellow eyes, perched on a spiny cactus branch
He waited 3 years for this "once-in-a-lifetime shot": after 200 hours patiently watching, 17-year-old photographer finally captured it and won top prize in a popular wildlife competition
NEWS The wildlife photographer calls it his "dream shot", capturing a hobby with its talons poised to pounce on a dragonfly over the water in eastern England
Photographer wins dream Canadian Geographic gig for wildlife portfolio including dramatic shot of puffin and cute fox portrait
News Newfoundland-based David Sturge has won the 2026 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year award and begins a two-year stint as a photographer with Canadian Geographic
Award-winning 16-year-old photographer now highlighted in world’s leading wildlife photography competition with an almost perfectly aligned bird and airplane DSLR image
NEWS After his previous success with a split-second wildlife shot that many spend years trying to capture, the young photography talent is now shortlisted for another prestigious award
These award-winning bird photos from Chile to Colombia, Canada and the US show nature at its most beautiful and vulnerable
NEWS As habitat loss and climate change threaten birds and wildlife, photographers across the Americas capture the urgent story of conservation – and the fight to protect the places birds call home
Canines crowned king but cats lauded too as winner of 2026 Australian Animal Photographer of the Year revealed
News A dramatic series of outdoor pooch portraits placed first in the “Animal” category, but the highest-scoring overall image was a creative feline frame
The photo and video smartphone of the year award goes to this flagship for an "innovative camera system, developed in collaboration with Hasselblad" and "14mm–230mm focal length range for outstanding versatility"
NEWS The closest a smartphone has come to being a real camera in your pocket, with a 3x telephoto and 10x camera, an impressive reach, and premium Hasselblad-inspired design
This full-frame mirrorless broke sales records in Japan and now wins its second Camera of the Year award – featuring "cutting-edge photographic technology," it's a "reliable and high-performance camera for discerning photographers"
UPDATED Sony's latest full-frame camera wins the EISA Camera of the Year 2026-2027 title, after topping the Japanese sales chart for months following its release in December 2025
