A mother will teach her children many things. This is no different in nature. In the Grand Prize shot (seen below) from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photography International Awardsa mother tiger shares a lesson on battle with her cub. Photographer Mangesh Ratnakar Desai captured the incredible image, describing the moment as “a masterclass in survival.” […]
Foreboding clouds, snow-kissed countrysides, and clashes of seasons. The winners of this year’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition showcase our planet’s volatile beauty. Photographer Gerson Turelly took home the competition’s inaugural Standard Chartered Climate Award, which was implemented to document the connection between weather patterns and the broader implications of climate change. […]
“Some of the rhetoric and political opinions I encountered were completely horrifying, but when I had actual one-on-one conversations with people, they couldn’t have been more pleasant. Which is the big tragedy of American politics,” says photographer Jamie Lee Taete of the final days of the US election. “That everyone is basically in the same […]
Pennsylvania Is the essential battleground state for the 2024 election: Whoever wins here will likely be in the White House next year. Photographer Alex Kent spent time today in Warrington Township, a suburb of Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. What we saw was a town divided. Signs reading “Communists” and “Fascists” plaster the streets, illustrating […]
The Academy Museum Gala’s homage to three Hollywood icons brought the best of cinema and fashion to the red carpet in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Now in its fourth year, the fundraiser–co-chaired in part by Salma Hayek Pinault, Nicole Kidman, Eva Longoriaand Tyler Perry–raised over $11 million for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures […]
Striking. Vibrant. Dazzling. The adjectives to describe our universe are infinite. And nowhere is that on display more than in the images from this year’s Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year awards. Australian photographer Phil Hart took the top honors for his incredible image (below) of the 2023 solar eclipse over Exmouth, Western Australia. Hart’s […]
Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science Thanks to a time stamp, Thorben Danke knows the exact moment he got hooked on photographing insects. On July 22, 2016, at 6:05 p.m. he happened to see a green bottle fly sitting near him on his garage wall. Danke had been playing around with the settings on his pricy […]
Photographs selected by Quentin Nardi Text by Tracy Scott Forson Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote, “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” They provide wood, flowers, shade, fruit, nuts and, most importantly, oxygen. Besides what they supply for humans, trees are just beautiful to behold. With their outstretched branches, long […]
Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Birds can be found on every continent—some living near water, others atop mountain ranges, and many nesting in forests and jungles. These often aerial animals, believed to be the modern-day cousins of prehistoric dinosaurs, continue to stand the test of time. Species of birds have […]
