National Geographic: 19 Wonderful Natural Photos 2016

This article examines National Geographic: 19 Wonderful Natural Photos 2016. It presents the main facts, practical implications, and key points in a clearer, easier-to-follow format.

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National Geographic has published 19 high-resolution photos in the "Nature Photographer of the Year 2016" contest on different topics ranging from landscapes, animals, environments to action themes.

A crow is chasing an owl at Singapore's Pasir Ris Park.

The rare moment captures the scene of two mantis Empusa Pennata standing on a tree trunk taken in Madrid, Spain. This photo won three animal themes.

Another photo also won the third prize in the subject of Animal, a photo that captures an ancient retractable albatross sleeping in the summer of 2015 at Skomer Island, Wales.

Emperor fish and cubs around swim in the lake in Miami, Florida. The photo won the second prize in the topic of Animals.

The photo taken in a tropical forest at Amboli, Maharashtra, India in drizzling weather has consistently won the prize for Animals.

A lonely white bear in winter is not cold and snow falls late at Barter Island in Alaska.

Bluie East Two is located in East Greenland abandoned after World War II.

A bikini girl stood looking at the fire plane that was spraying water down to extinguish the fire in the forest near the beach of Son Serra.

Tiny plastic blocks in eyeliner or lipstick are still used by humans daily under micro lenses. They are also the cause of the ocean being seriously polluted. The photo presents three environmental themes.

The photo taken in San Francisco Bay (near Facebook's headquarters) shows that nearly 67 million square kilometers of the area has been developed into a salt making area. The photo won the second prize in the topic of Environment.

The body of a starved white bear was discovered on an island in northern Svalbard, Norway, the best photo of the Environment theme. Currently, we often find the bodies of white bears due to global warming phenomenon on earth.

Blue meteorite in the sky in southern India, a rare natural phenomenon.

The image of the storm is coming inland from the Pacific side and is only a few meters south of the Panama City sea. The photo won the prize of three Landscape themes.

The picture was taken in the first snowfall of the winter in the Italian Dolomites, which won the prize of Landscape theme.

The best photo of the small landscape and oak theme at a forest stream in the Netherlands.

The rare moment captures three turtles gobbling up jellyfish taken by photographers while diving in Byron Bay, Australia.

White herons, the photo won three Action themes. This animal is a symbol of the Hungarian Conservation National Park and is one of the animals on the list of endangered animals that need to be protected.

The photo captures the moment when the storm EF2 is right on the houses in Wray, Colorado, winning the second prize in the Action theme.

This photo won the final and first prize on the Action topic. Scene of sardines are becoming bait for dolphins, whales, penguins, sharks, flagfish and sea lions are hunting sardines in South American waters. Excessive climate change and fishing has made the time when sardines swim through here become much more unpredictable.