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1st Place in Aerials: In Sydney, Australia, the Pacific Ocean at high tide breaks over a natural rock pool enlarged in the 1930s. Avoiding the crowds at the city's many beaches, a local swims laps. (Photo by Todd Kennedy/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

1st Place in Aerials: In Sydney, Australia, the Pacific Ocean at high tide breaks over a natural rock pool enlarged in the 1930s. Avoiding the crowds at the city's many beaches, a local swims laps. (Photo by Todd Kennedy/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



1st Place in Landscapes: Shortly before twilight in Kalapana, Hawai'i, a fragment of the cooled lava tube broke away, leaving the molten rock to fan in a fiery spray for less than half an hour before returning to a steady flow. (Photo by Karim Iliya/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

1st Place in Landscapes: Shortly before twilight in Kalapana, Hawai'i, a fragment of the cooled lava tube broke away, leaving the molten rock to fan in a fiery spray for less than half an hour before returning to a steady flow. (Photo by Karim Iliya/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



1st Place in Underwater: Blue-filtered strobe lights stimulate fluorescent pigments in the clear tentacles of a tube-dwelling anemone in Hood Canal, Washington. (Photo by Jim Obester/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

1st Place in Underwater: Blue-filtered strobe lights stimulate fluorescent pigments in the clear tentacles of a tube-dwelling anemone in Hood Canal, Washington. (Photo by Jim Obester/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



2nd Place in Aerials: Snow-covered metasequoia trees, also called dawn redwoods, interlace over a road in Takashima, Japan. (Photo by Takahiro Bessho/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

2nd Place in Aerials: Snow-covered metasequoia trees, also called dawn redwoods, interlace over a road in Takashima, Japan. (Photo by Takahiro Bessho/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



2nd Place in Landscapes: Sunlight glances off mineral strata of different colors in Dushanzi Grand Canyon, China. (Photo by Yuhan Liao/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

2nd Place in Landscapes: Sunlight glances off mineral strata of different colors in Dushanzi Grand Canyon, China. (Photo by Yuhan Liao/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



2nd Place in Underwater: Typically a shy species, a Caribbean reef shark investigates a remote-triggered camera in Cuba's Gardens of the Queen marine protected area. (Photo by Shane Gross/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

2nd Place in Underwater: Typically a shy species, a Caribbean reef shark investigates a remote-triggered camera in Cuba's Gardens of the Queen marine protected area. (Photo by Shane Gross/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



2nd Place in Wildlife: An adult Caribbean pink flamingo feeds a chick in Yucatán, Mexico. Both parents alternate feeding chicks, at first with a liquid baby food called crop milk, and then with regurgitated food. (Photo by Alejandro Prieto/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

2nd Place in Wildlife: An adult Caribbean pink flamingo feeds a chick in Yucatán, Mexico. Both parents alternate feeding chicks, at first with a liquid baby food called crop milk, and then with regurgitated food. (Photo by Alejandro Prieto/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



3rd Place in Aerials: On the flanks of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i, the world's only lava ocean entry spills molten rock into the Pacific Ocean. After erupting in early 2016, the lava flow took about two months to reach the sea, six miles away. (Photo by Greg C./National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

3rd Place in Aerials: On the flanks of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i, the world's only lava ocean entry spills molten rock into the Pacific Ocean. After erupting in early 2016, the lava flow took about two months to reach the sea, six miles away. (Photo by Greg C./National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



3rd Place in Landscapes: A summer thunderstorm unleashes lightning on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

3rd Place in Landscapes: A summer thunderstorm unleashes lightning on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



3rd Place in Underwater: Buoyed by the Gulf Stream, a flying fish arcs through the night-dark water five miles off Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Michael Patrick O'Neill/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

3rd Place in Underwater: Buoyed by the Gulf Stream, a flying fish arcs through the night-dark water five miles off Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Michael Patrick O'Neill/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



3rd Place in Wildlife: Two grey herons spar as a white-tailed eagle looks on in Hungary. (Photo by Bence Mate/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

3rd Place in Wildlife: Two grey herons spar as a white-tailed eagle looks on in Hungary. (Photo by Bence Mate/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



People's Choice in Aerials: Green vegetation blooms at the river's edge, or riparian, zone of a meandering canyon in Utah. (Photo by David Swindler/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

People's Choice in Aerials: Green vegetation blooms at the river's edge, or riparian, zone of a meandering canyon in Utah. (Photo by David Swindler/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



1st Place in Wildlife: A male orangutan peers from behind a tree while crossing a river in Borneo, Indonesia. (Photo by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

1st Place in Wildlife: A male orangutan peers from behind a tree while crossing a river in Borneo, Indonesia. (Photo by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



Honorable Mention in Aerials: Migratory gulls take flight from a cedar tree being washed downstream by a glacial river in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Agathe Bernard/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

Honorable Mention in Aerials: Migratory gulls take flight from a cedar tree being washed downstream by a glacial river in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Agathe Bernard/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



Honorable Mention in Landscapes: Morning fog blurs the dead trees of Romania's Lake Cuejdel, a natural reservoir created by landslides. (Photo by Gheorghe Popa/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

Honorable Mention in Landscapes: Morning fog blurs the dead trees of Romania's Lake Cuejdel, a natural reservoir created by landslides. (Photo by Gheorghe Popa/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



Honorable Mention in Underwater: Preparing to strike, tarpon cut through a ribbon-like school of scad off the coast of Bonaire in the Caribbean Sea. (Photo by Jennifer O'Neil/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

Honorable Mention in Underwater: Preparing to strike, tarpon cut through a ribbon-like school of scad off the coast of Bonaire in the Caribbean Sea. (Photo by Jennifer O'Neil/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



Honorable Mention in Wildlife: A Japanese macaque indulges in some grooming time on the shores of the famous hot springs. (Photo by Lance McMillan/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

Honorable Mention in Wildlife: A Japanese macaque indulges in some grooming time on the shores of the famous hot springs. (Photo by Lance McMillan/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



People's Choice in Landscapes: Sunset illuminates a lighthouse and rainbow in the Faroe Islands. (Photo by Wojciech Kruczynski/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

People's Choice in Landscapes: Sunset illuminates a lighthouse and rainbow in the Faroe Islands. (Photo by Wojciech Kruczynski/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



People's Choice in Underwater: A Portuguese man-of-war nears the beach on a summer morning; thousands of these jellyfish wash up on Australia's eastern coast every year. (Photo by Matty Smith/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

People's Choice in Underwater: A Portuguese man-of-war nears the beach on a summer morning; thousands of these jellyfish wash up on Australia's eastern coast every year. (Photo by Matty Smith/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)



People's Choice in Wildlife: A great gray owl swoops to kill in a New Hampshire field, US. This bird was a rare visitor to this area and was worth the 7 1/2 hour drive to see it. (Photo by Harry Collins/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)

People's Choice in Wildlife: A great gray owl swoops to kill in a New Hampshire field, US. This bird was a rare visitor to this area and was worth the 7 1/2 hour drive to see it. (Photo by Harry Collins/National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest 2017)
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