Beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards

“It’s been over two decades since I first witnessed a dipper darting through a waterfall,” photographer Konrad Wothe says. “The small passerine bird was flying back and forth to a nest tucked away safely behind a dense curtain of water. Of course I attempted to capture the dipper on film, but my analogue camera gear did not allow me to freeze this split-second moment in sharp focus.”

Grumpy Cat”
The Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) lives in the wilderness of Mongolia where this photograph was taken at -35° Celsius.
Credit: Dr. Beate Oswald / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Beate_Oswald

“Red fox in heathland”
While on the lookout for fallow deer and stonechats, I was surprise by this red fox.
Credit: Angelika Krikava / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025