Nature's Best Photography: Best of the Best (Nuno Sá)

© Nuno Sá / Nature's Best Photography Awards. Courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
October 27, 2015
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© Nuno Sá / Nature's Best Photography Awards. Courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History opened “Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Presents: The Best of the Best” Saturday, Oct. 24. The temporary exhibition features more than 100 large-format prints selected from nearly 500,000 images submitted over 20 years by photographers from around the globe for the annual Nature’s Best Photography: Windland Smith Rice International Awards. Photos in the exhibition include dramatic landscapes, exciting wildlife and surprising glimpses of Earth’s icy peaks to mysterious ocean depths. The exhibition will remain on display through October 2016.

Blue Shark Off Faial Island, Azores, Portugal

By Nuno Sá, Azores, Portugal

“Diving into the blue, ten miles off the coast of Faial Island, I watched a torpedo-shaped shadow rapidly approaching from deep, dark waters. As it came closer, its long pectoral fins gave it a form that reminded me of a jet plane; it was a six-foot-long blue shark."

© Nuno Sá / Nature's Best Photography Awards. Courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

 

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