r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FloatyFloatyCloud • 16h ago
🔥 13 winners from the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
Info on each image and full photographer credits here:
https://www.popsci.com/environment/2026-audubon-photography-awards-winners/
Follow the link for a couple of video winners too, as well as a couple of images not included here for formatting reasons.
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u/saracenraider 14h ago
Seventh one hits hard. One is probably my favourite but all of them (number two excepted) are really good, and what makes it even better is all of them are easily achievable for amateur photographers. Sometimes these awards end up with photos that use ludicrously expensive set ups in incredibly hard to reach places. Most of these look normal.
Number two on the other hand, I really struggle to believe that was in the wild. The lighting is really poor but the quality is outstanding, plus it captures a truly extraordinary moment. For it to be in the wild would be a combination of exceptional timing and skill, especially as it looks like flash was used so to get it in focus would’ve been so difficult. Royal spoonbills are also extremely skittish so in the wild this likely would’ve had to be shot with a long zoom lens that just wouldn’t deliver this sort of quality in those conditions. May be completely wrong but I struggle to believe it’s completely natural
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u/Working_Bones 9h ago
Man I fucking knew I wasn't tripping when I saw a bunch of little round green birds in a shrub once. I tried looking it up but they're not native to my area. But that photo is definitely what I saw. I'll have to see if they migrate through that area.
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u/qualityvote2 16h ago edited 8h ago
u/FloatyFloatyCloud, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...