自然の雄大さに見入る ナショナル・ジオグラフィックが写真コンテストの入賞者発表（3/3 ページ）

グランプリは川を渡るオラウータンの写真でした。

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水中写真部門

1位　Photograph by Jim Obester, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/Blue-filtered strobe lights stimulate fluorescent pigments in the clear tentacles of a tube-dwelling anemone in Hood Canal, Washington.

2位　Photograph by Shane Gross, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/Typically a shy species, a Caribbean reef shark investigates a remote-triggered camera in Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen marine protected area.

3位　Photograph by Michael Patrick O'Neill, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/Buoyed by the Gulf Stream, a flying fish arcs through the night-dark water five miles off Palm Beach, Florida.

特別賞　Photograph by Jennifer O'Neil, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/Preparing to strike, tarpon cut through a ribbon-like school of scad off the coast of Bonaire in the Caribbean Sea.

ピープルズチョイス　Photograph by Matthew Smith, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/A Portuguese man-of-war nears the beach on a summer morning; thousands of these jellyfish wash up on Australia’s eastern coast every year.

野生生物

1位　Photograph by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/A male orangutan peers from behind a tree while crossing a river in Borneo, Indonesia.

2位　Photograph by Alejandro Prieto, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/An adult Caribbean pink flamingo feeds a chick in Yucatán, Mexico. Both parents alternate feeding chicks, at first with a liquid baby food called crop milk, and then with regurgitated food.

3位　Photograph by Bence Mate, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/Two grey herons spar as a white-tailed eagle looks on in Hungary.

特別賞　Photograph by Lance McMillan, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/A Japanese macaque indulges in some grooming time on the shores of the famous hot springs.

ピープルズチョイス　Photograph by Harry Collins, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/A great gray owl swoops to kill in a New Hampshire field.