The winners of the Greenpeace 2019 Photo Competition are:
Laura Mony, Andrea Nixon, Jacob Hawley, Naomi Maya, Kevin van der Leek, Magenta Hyde, Damien Glezies, Debbie Slack, Claudette Gagnon, Beau Evans, Cam Sheppard, & Tristan Ray-Wilks.
And with 650 votes, the winner of the People’s Choice Award is: Denver Chance.
CONGRATULATIONS!
The theme of this year’s competition was celebrating aquatic environments around the world, and the wildlife that depend on them. Our supporters came out in a big way this year, and we had an incredible, and record breaking 2,327 submissions!
Here are the top 12 images picked by our panel of judges:
Gentoo Penguins jump through waves off the coast of Antarctica. © Laura Mony.
Plough Snails feast on a Bluebottle on Muizenberg Beach, South Africa. © Andrea Nixon.
An otter hangs out at the local dock at Oak Bay Marina, Victoria, BC, Canada. © Jacob Hawley.
A Canada goose stretches its wings along the edge of Vermillion Lakes in Alberta. © Naomi Maya.
Early morning along the Alouette River in B.C., Canada. © Kevin van der Leek.
A baby Humpback Whales rests atop its mother along the coast of Moorea, Tahiti. © Magenta Hyde.
The sunsets on Manuel Antonio beach in Costa Rica. © Damien Gleizes.
Baby Alligator lays low in Circle B Reserve, Lakeland Florida, USA. © Debbie Slack.
A swallow-tailed gull takes flight in the Galapagos Islands. © Claudette Gagnon.
Sockeye Salmon run the Kokanee Creek Provincial Park, in B.C., Canada. © Beau Evans.
Cam Sheppard: A pregnant male Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse camouflages itself amongst the coral in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
A wave curls along the side of an iceberg along the Drake passage in Antarctica. ©Tristan Ray-Wilks
We’d like to thank each and every participant for sharing your photos, you made the selection process very difficult, but we can’t wait to celebrate these images in the 2020 Greenpeace Desk Calendar.
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Discussion
Congratulations to all the winners !!
Wow! I entered some photos, but I am thrilled with the winning ones. Gorgeous photos; great choices. Real quality :)
C’est très beau. Félicitations pour le travail que vous accomplissez, cela à réveillé ma conscience et celle de plusieurs.
the above press releases, show the good work done by your group. Keep up the good work and good luck, Mariana Grinblat.
Awesome pictures! Keep up the good work!
Amazing photos all! One picky point. The bird in the Galapagos photo is a swallow-tailed gull, not a red-footed booby.
Thank you for your comment! We have changed the caption accordingly.
I’m wondering why you are still referring to animals as its..... we need to end the objectification of animals, we should always refer to animals as they/them unless we specifically know their gender....
OUR World is beautiful We all need to be participants of its survival! Thank you for the photo share! Awesome! Kind Regards, Joanne Coulton Coulton Creations
Loved the photos in the Contest and LOVE GREENPEACE, for all they do for our environment!
Lovely to see the photos selected...The snails feasting on the bluebottle; the salmon run; and mother and baby whale are my favourites with their colours and design. Capturing the mother and baby whale underwater is gorgeous!
I loved the male pygmy picture, but so hard to choose. How could you pick only 12? I'll go with the seahorse, as I always searched for those in any tank! Found some in Las Vegas!
How beautiful & humbling are these photographs. I note how Canada, & beautiful British Columbia has the most photos from this whole wide world. What a responsibility of stewardship over which I weep with the Bitumen carrying TMX pipeline looming over our beautiful coast. Please keep on with the vital work to bring the powers that be to sanity & the reality of the privilege of looking after our blue green earth.
To Jo-Anne Kalvaitis, I live here on Vancouver Island and I couldn't agree with your comment more....sometimes I think that people who don't live here just don't 'get it"....
Congratulations to the winners . Magnificent pictures. Please make sure next year we can change the pictures if we put the wrong one, I put 2 by mistake, couldn't change them. :( Thanks for the opportunity.
all 12 photos are amazing but the sockeye salmon run stands out to me as a winner
Among the winners 3 are from British Columbia, Canada. This environment is at risk of contamination by oil spill either from the pipeline just okayed or from an oil tanker accident. Look well—these may be the last photographs of our coast in an undamaged condition.
Those photos were amazing. Were they taken by professional photographers ? Were any of them enhanced artificially ?
I would love to see the other pictures sent in. Is there a place to go to see the rest of the pictures ?
Absolutely beautiful, stunning photos showing the amazing diversity of water and life on our planet and the appreciative and photographic eye of humans!
All pictures very worthy winners. In case I need reminding why I love nature, the pictures say it all!
The photos are magnificent. Thank you for sharing.
Good work as usual Greenpeace. Thank you again for all you do in our world
Those are fantastic pictures. The one with the baby whale resting on its mother's back and the pregnant male seahorse held me mesmerized.
Amazing
SUCH AMAZING TALENT TO CAPTURE "LIFE" IN THE MOMENT .
Enjoyed all 12 photos. It must have been difficult to choose the best ones. Congratulations to all of you.
Wonderful pictures especially of sea creatures!
My photo of the two boys on the beach in Jamaica was not chosen, Why? I see others with people in them; as a Senior, I feel left out.Thanks!!
Having read this I thought it was extremely informative. I appreciate you finding the time and energy to put this article together. I once again find myself personally spending a significant amount of time both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!