Canadian photographer Samantha Stephens has gained the Cease-up Photographer of the one year award with her image of a pair of salamanders being consumed by a carnivorous pitcher plant in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada.
Stephens will be awarded a £2,500/~US$3,000/~€2,832 money prize and the Cease-up Photographer of the one year (CUPOTY) trophy. Her work is displayed to a world audience in the Top 100 online gallery at www.cupoty.com.
Stephens says of her listing:
“Northern Pitcher Vegetation on the whole feast on moths and flies but researchers on the Algonquin Natural world Evaluate Location recently found a aesthetic unique item on the plant’s menu: juvenile Seen Salamanders. Whereas following researchers on their day-to-day surveys I saw a pitcher with two salamanders floating on the flooring of the pitcher’s fluid, each on the the same stage of decay. I knew it used to be a clear and fleeting moment. The next day, each salamanders had sunk to the bottom of the pitcher.”
The latest CUPOTY attracted more than 9,000 entries from 54 worldwide locations. There had been 11 categories:
- Animals
- Insects
- Vegetation
- Fungi
- Intimate Panorama
- Underwater
- Butterflies & Insects
- Invertebrate Portrait
- Manmade
- Micro (for photos created using a microscope) and
- Younger Cease-up Photographer of the one year (for entrants vulnerable 17 or beneath).
Whereas Stephens secured the title (and prime place in the Animals category), 17-year-feeble British photographer Nathan Benstead used to be topped Younger Cease-up Photographer of the one year along with his image of slime moulds.
Test out the tip 100 photos from the competition right here.
Featured Image credit rating: © Samantha Stephens | cupoty.com
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