'Baby monkey', Location: Kedoya Utara, Indonesia.
A colorful photo of a green iguana strolling through sunflowers (below) by Indonesian photographer @jjnmatt was voted the overall winner of the “World Best Photos Of Animals 2020” competition organized by photo app Agora.
The image, entitled “Iguana,” gathered the most votes by the application’s global audience and took the top prize of $1,000.
Overall Winner: 'Iguana' Location: Jakarta, Indonesia.
Top FInalist: 'Misty heather field in full bloom', Netherlands.
Top Finalist: 'Reach the winter', Mongolia. It was the end of the autumn season, with the snow ... [+]
Top Finalist: 'Family', Location: Surin, Thailand.
Top Finalist: 'Honor fight', Location: Indonesia.
50 images from around the world were selected as finalists from 13,888 submissions to the contest, “showing the wide and precious variety of animal life surrounding us,” according to the organizers. “We challenged international photographers to participate in the #Animals2020 photo contest with their best shots of living creatures around the planet.”
“All living beings are on Earth for a reason, from the tiniest insects to the greatest mammals - and all their habitats are connected,” Agora explain. “To preserve their existence, we must protect biodiversity: it is our duty to unite and defend animal rights to keep celebrating the wonder of our natural world.”
Finalist, 'The barn owl has landed', Location: Northumberland, UK.
Finalist: 'Mother Bekantan', Location: Cisarua, Indonesia.
Finalist: 'Mother love', Location: Australia.
Finalist: 'Close encounter', Ibex in Chamonix, France.
Finalist: 'Orangutan', Location: Tanjung, Indonesia.
Agora @Agoraimages, is a free-to-use mobile app by which photographers, whether amateur or professional, can participate in international photo contests organized throughout the year for a chance to win cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $25,000.
With more than 3.5 million users from 193 countries, the app's global community members participate in the selection of the winning images in each contest by voting for their favorite photo.
“Photography is a powerful medium to generate empathy and a deeper understanding of the world surrounding us,” says Octavi Royo, Agora's CEO. “Only one species living on Earth can choose what the future will look like, and that species is us!”
Finalist: 'Icelandic' horse Location: Kirkjufell, Iceland.
Finalist: 'Farmers': farmer Silvina with her black turkey, Location: Murtosa, Portugal.
Finalist: 'Mosca descansando en un cactus' ('Fly resting on a cactus'), Location: Parque de La ... [+]
Finalist: 'What are you looking at?' Location: South Korea. A bee collects pollen from a Fischers ... [+]
Finalist: 'Friends', Location: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
'Finalist: 'Privilege witness', Llama in Machu Picchu, Peru.
Finalist: 'Into the darkness', Location: Dobbiaco Lake, Italy.
Finalist: 'Devotion', Location: Armenian Church, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. The dog is lying on his ... [+]
Finalist: 'Freshwater', Location: Kebun binatang Taman Satwa Jurug, Indonesia.
