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Snapped! Amazing photos from Nature Photographer of the Year 2025

A black chick sits on the sand with two green crabs either side of it.Bence Máté

Have you ever seen a crab with a chick? Or a gorilla with a butterfly?

Well that's exactly what was captured in this year's Nature Photographer of the Year competition.

The photograph contest had over 24 thousand photo entries.

There were 12 categories to compete in, read on to see some of the winners.

Who was the overall winner of Nature Photographer 2025?

An orange circle with a dark blue background. Swifts fly across the orange circle looking blue. In the dark blue background small orange birch seeds look like fuzzy swifts flying.Åsmund Keilen

This photo - Sundance - won the overall prize

Amateur photographer Åsmund Keilen from Norway used reflections to capture this image.

He photographed the orange birch seeds that had fallen onto the blue roof of his car, with the sun reflecting the common swifts in the sky.

This photograph was also the winner of the Birds category.

Animal portraits winner 2025

A gorilla gazes at an orange butterfly fluttering. His eyes and face look contemplative.Mary Schrader

'Shared Wonder'

This photo of a young female mountain gorilla was taken from a forest in Uganda.

It shows the balance of nature, how some animals are strong like the gorilla and others fragile, like the butterfly.

Youth winner Nature Photography Awards 2025

A black and white image of a bobcat running with prey in its mouth. It gazes at the camera.Leo Dale

Panning Bobcat

It's not just adults who can take amazing photos of nature!

This bobcat photograph was the Youth 10-17 Years winner, taken by Leo Dale.

The wildcat was spotted in California, carrying its prey.

A cluster of tiny frogs sits on the back of a water buffalo. The background is sandy.Merennege Chamathki Induwara Fernando

On Gulliver's Back

Chamathki Fernando, a 15-year-old girl from Sri Lanka, was runner up in the youth category.

Her photo shows a cluster of tiny frogs on the back of a water buffalo.

Underwater winner Nature Photography Awards 2025

A crinoid shrimp crawls along a feather star. It is a deep dark blue with orangey yellow legs.Luis Arpa Toribio

'Featherhome'

This might look like a photo from an alien planet, but it's actually taken in the ocean in Bali.

The crinoid shrimp perfectly blends with the feather star - which is a relative of sea urchins and starfish.

Humans and nature winner Nature Photography Awards

A black and white image of a lynx at a barbed wire fenceXingchao Zhu

Difficult Crossing

This image of a Eurasian lynx was taken in China during winter.

This category is all about the positive or negative aspects of human interaction with nature.

Landscape Winner Nature Photography Awards 2025

Water drips down from an ice-framed viewing window into a dwindling, crystal-blue world. The ice of a glacier twinkles around the deep blue viewing hole.Alexander Hormann

Time for a drop

The photograph of a glacier in Norway looks like a portal to another world!

It was taken from a melon-sized opening in the ice wall.

Nature Photography Awards 2025 - more entries

A Sumatran tiger stalks in a forest.Vladimir Cech Jr.

The Hidden Grail of Sumatra Island shows a Sumatran tiger in Sumatra, Indonesia. It came runner up in the mammals category.

A gulf wobbegong swims across the bottom off the ocean. Hundreds of silver fish swim alongside it. The water is a light turquoise.Nicolas Remy

The gulf wobbegong is one of the largest carpet sharks, reaching nearly 3 metres in length. This photo came highly commended in the underwater category.

An aardvark stands with its long snout and long ears uplifted. It stands on yellow grass with a golden, pinky sunset setting behind it.Laura Dyer

This sunset photo of an ardvark in Botswana won highly commended in the animal portraits category.