Peter Hudson/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024
The winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024 has been introduced with a picture of a shark hunt type above taking house the highest prize.
The competitors, run in affiliation with the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) this yr, celebrates unimaginable pictures that shed new gentle on hidden scientific phenomena.
This yr’s general winner, from the habits class, is The Hunt from Above by Dr Angela Albi, a postdoctoral researcher on the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, who research the predator-prey interactions of sharks and colleges of fish.
“Just after dawn or earlier than sunset, the shallow waters of the Maldives develop into a transparent, see-through floor,” she says.
“These are additionally the moments after we greatest observe the interactions between reef sharks and their prey. In this body, captured throughout a analysis journey in 2024, a shark on the far left shifts abruptly from swimming calmly throughout the faculty to initiating a hunt, its physique posture standing out from the others. While we nonetheless don’t know what triggers these assaults, we analyse movies to review how sharks hunt and the way their prey responds collectively.”
Overall winner and winner of the Behavior class. Four juvenile blacktip reef sharks work collectively to hunt a big faculty of hardyhead silversides. Taken from a drone within the Maldives. | Angela Albi/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Runner up within the Behavior class. Breeding European toads in Romania’s Retezat National Park. | Ovidiu Dragan/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Winner of the Astronomy class. The Heart and Soul nebulae within the Cassiopeia constellation. This picture was captured over 14 hours from a Chicago suburb. | Imran Sultan/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Runner up within the Astronomy class. The galactic core of the Milky Way galaxy as seen from Egypt. | Mohamed Aboushelib/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Winner of the Ecology and Environmental Science class. A secretary hen closes its third eyelid because it swallows its prey. The nictitating membrane throughout its eye protects it from harm. | Peter Hudson/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Runner up the Ecology and Environmental Science class. A flatfish on the Indian west coast. | Abhijeet Bayani/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Winner of the Microimaging class. The eyes of a black scorpion in Baja California, Mexico, noticed beneath fluorescence utilizing a 10x/0.3 goal lens. | Jose Manuel Martinez Lopez/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Runner up within the Microimaging class. The mycelium of Armillaria sprawls throughout the floor, forming a sample harking back to a Lovecraftian world map | Jose Manuel Martinez Lopez/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024Winner of the Earth Science class. Taken on an iPhone, the photograph depicts a supraglacial melting lake over the Greenlandic ice sheet. | David Garcia/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024
For extra details about the competition, head to The Royal Society’s web site.
