Every year, the Global Photography Awards 2025 celebrate the finest visual storytellers from around the world, and 2025 has been no exception. The nature category this year was absolutely breathtaking—packed with raw emotion, insane landscapes, and powerful moments that make you stop and just stare. These 20 award-winning nature photos prove that when art meets wilderness, magic happens.
Each photo in this collection reveals something different about our planet—how fragile it is, how wild it can be, and how deeply it connects us all. Whether it’s a tiger stalking through the misty Indian jungle or an aurora lighting up the Arctic sky, these shots remind us that nature isn’t just beautiful—it’s alive, fierce, and endlessly unpredictable.
The 2025 Global Photography Awards didn’t just honor technical perfection—they celebrated the passion behind every frame. These photographers didn’t just capture nature; they felt it. And that emotion bleeds through every color, every shadow, every ray of light frozen in time.
If you ever needed a reminder of why this planet deserves our awe and protection, these 20 photos are it.
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#1. "Newborn Moon" by Allan Andersen
"“Newborn Moon” captures the rare transition of a lunar eclipse, where the moon emerges as if being born from the clouds below. The glowing mist reflects light like a cradle, while a rising wisp of haze reaches upward, suggesting a moment of creation. It is this fragile illusion – that the moon has just entered the night sky – which inspired the title."
#2. "Ring of Ice and Fire" by Liam Man
"A “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse reaches annularity as two intrepid ice climbers summit the mighty Glacier Leones in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field of Chile. A drone equiped with a powerful lighting rig illuminates the ice’s textures and colours, battling fierce winds that whip up plumes of snow that burn in the sun’s rays."
#3. "The Beautiful larch forest" by HO, WEI-CHIN
"Beautiful circular bald cypress forest captured by aerial photography."
#4. "The Resting Moon" by Ariane Totzke
"Just days before this year’s blood full moon, I witnessed a rare sight in the Toggenburg region of Switzerland: the moon appearing to rest upon the majestic Churfirsten mountains. This natural spectacle lasted only a few fleeting minutes, and I was incredibly fortunate to capture it. Nature’s wonders often reveal themselves suddenly and unexpectedly — this is why I love photography, which allows me to transform such moments into art."
#5. "Dance of the Aurora" by Shirley Wung
"Under the polar night in Norway, I was lucky enough to witness the dreamy dance of the goddess Aurora. The interweaving of light and shadow, the changing of colors, is like a painting hand-painted by nature, or like a gorgeous flower blooming in the sky."
#6. "A Healing Journey Through Banff" by Shaoyu Ba
"After an emotional low point, I set out alone on a self-redemption journey to Banff, Canada, facing -40°C. I celebrated my 21st birthday on the frozen Abraham Lake. Along the way, I endured extreme cold, got stuck in snow, yet witnessed rare moose, KP9 aurora, and icy pillars under the night sky."
#7. "Yellow-bellied Prinia Breeding" by HO, WEI-CHIN
"Every spring is the time for animals to reproduce and raise their young."
#8. "Midsummer Night Firefly" by Shirley Wung
"Although the light of fireflies in the forest on summer nights is weak, they dance among the trees and dot the darkness. However, such beautiful scenes are gradually disappearing from our lives. Due to forest destruction and environmental pollution, fireflies’ habitats are shrinking,"
#9. "The Milky Way on Mars" by Shang yao-yuan
"The rocky terrain here is full of the feeling of a doomsday movie. It is sparsely populated after dark, and it feels like being on Mars. I captured a complete high-definition Milky Way here by myself, and the terrain here presents a dreamy and amazing sense of space. This is a very rare and special place. I was very excited when taking the photo, and I will definitely go there many times."
#10. "Camile with Milkyway" by Eric von Schulthess
"The uniquness of GOBI DESERT is, that there is no light polution. I took advantage of this situation and created the attached picture."
#11. "The angels are coming" by Hiroto Fukuda
"The japanese crane is divine and beautiful.Their noble form dancing in the snowfield is like an angel or a god.I devote my life to photographing them in order to enhance their beauty even more beautifully."
#12. "Mother Earth" by Julia Dahlkvist
"Flying above Icelandic highlands I noticed some very new formation in my favorite crater lake. Glacial River entered the lake and suddenly it looked like a baby in the mothers womb. It looked like the earth will become a mother."
#13. "Burner" by Mark Gray
"Captured from the sky, a braided river flows into a vivid glacial lake on the south island of New Zealand."
#14. "Final Approach" by Patrick Haleyt
"Golden eagle final approach in Lapland, Finland."
#15. "A Perfect Tuscan Sunrise" by L. Kelly JonesIt
"It was a spectacularly beautiful Golden Hour morning outside Val d’Orcia in Tuscany! The low layer of fog added to the photograph’s intrigue, but the sky! Oh my, I’ve never seen a sky so brilliantly red! The sky did not need much work in post-production; it was indeed that glorious."
#16. "White on White" by Dorota SENECHAL
"I was dreaming about this picture since almost 10 years of arctic expeditions. Every time I was in Far North, I always had missed the opportunity to photograph some Arctic fox in white fur. It was really becoming for me, like a ghost … Until this magical meeting in March 2020."
#17. "Spirit of the Eagle" by Dorota SENECHAL
"On my way to Far North Canada high arctic, I stopped few days in Manitoba, where I was able, in winter, to capture the majestic fly of North American emblematic specie, the Bald Eagle. In winter into Canadian forests covered by snow, there is always some special atmosphere and ambiance, and you can really feel the Spirit of the Eagle, when it will fly in front of you, free and high in the sky."
#18. "The Song of Life" by Hiroto Fukuda
"A japanese crane cries heavenward in the heavy snow.It is as if they are singing a song of life.A hymn to life.Its voice is like a hymn to God."
#19. "A Flock of Birds and Bare Trees in the Fog" by John McDermott
"Bare trees stand silently in the fog behind a flock of birds rising through the mist."
#20. "Full Moon Over Red Cliff Bridge" by L. Kelly Jones
"It was a rising full moon over Colorado’s historic Red Cliff Bridge, a cantilevered steel arch bridge. Completed in 1940, it rises approximately 200 feet over the Eagle River, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985. I set up my tripod, waited for full Blue Hour,"
