40 Finalists From The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year

#21 Phantom Spring

Comyu Matsuoka

#22 Aladdin’s Cave

Denis Budkov

#23 Confrontation

“A White-tailed eagle swoops in on a Hokkaido red fox to set it straight for stealing a fish. This confrontation happened out on frozen Lake Fuhren in Hokkaido, Japan. The fox escaped with the fish.”

Karen Prisby

#24 Great Egret Against The Setting Sun

Arun P

#25 The Frozen Pond With Snow

Kent Shiraishi

#26 Stare Into My Eyes

Octoyura Bamahry

#27 Crocodile Tears

Harry Lyndon-Skeggs

#28 Fire Dancer

Brina Bunt

#29 Under The Milky Way

Ignacio Carrera

#30 From The Shadows

Harry Lyndon-Skeggs

#31 Ufo Formation

Takashi

#32 Larger Than Life

Alex Wiles

#33 Proud Momma

Michael O’Neill

#34 Long Shadows

Jassen T.

#35 Huge Scale Of Bats Hibernation

Kei Nomiyama

#36 Covered With Mist

pradeep raja

#37 The Zebra And The Oxpecker

YARON SCHMID

#38 Tequilla Sunset

Zhayynn James

#39 The Glacier Pattern

Takashi Tsuneizumi

#40 Diving

felipe foncueva