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10 beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards

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“It’s been over two decades since I first witnessed a dipper darting through a waterfall,” photographer Konrad Wothe says. “The small passerine bird was flying back and forth to a nest tucked away safely behind a dense curtain of water. Of course I attempted to capture the dipper on film, but my analogue camera gear did not allow me to freeze this split-second moment in sharp focus.”

Twenty years later and armed with a faster camera, Wothe captured the magical moment a white-throated dipper crashed through a waterfall. The image (seen below) earned Wothe top honors at the 2025 GDT (German Society for Nature Photography) Nature Photographer of the Year awards.

“Dipper flying through waterfall”
White-throated dipper flying through waterfall.
Credit: Konrad Wothe / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Konrad Wothe

More than 8,000 images were submitted for consideration at this year’s awards. Visit GDTfoto for a full gallery of the winners and scroll some of our favorites below.

puffin raises its head against  pink sky
“Courtship display”
Puffin courtship display during the mating season in Newfoundland.
Credit: Karsten Mosebach / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Karsten Mosebach
ostrich legs and one head
“…a matter of perspective…”
A flock of ostriches photographed on the way to De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa.
Credit: Peter Mrasek / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
a wild cat with a grouchy face leaps towards the camera on snowa larger and smaller sea turtle
“A sense of belonging”
With this photograph, I tried to depict the familial interaction between two sea turtles off the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Credit: Joshi Nichell / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Joshi Nichell

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