Creative Nature Photography - CNP

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13/06/2025

Dear Friends,

We have come up with a small set of "Memorable Images of the Year 2024". As always these images were reviewed multiple times by our editorial team for composition, artistic value and uniqueness. We hope you all appreciate these selected works of our members.

Kindly note the purpose of this exercise is just to challenge ourselves to think beyond and take a deeper look at Nature and our expressions. The purpose is not to cause unhealthy competition among ourselves. After all, we are disproportionately small when compared to our subject (nature)

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13/10/2023

The Wall of Wonder
Vihaan Talya Vikas
10 Years and Under

Congratulations to the youngest CNPian for prestigious Natural History museum's Wildlife Photographer Of The Year(WPOY) 2023 award in under 10 years category.

Vihaan Talya Vikas (India) watches as an ornamental tree trunk spider prevents its prey from escaping.

Visiting an ancient tamarind grove just kilometres from Bangalore Airport in India, Vihaan was struck by how an ornamental tree trunk spider seemed to have been entranced by the sound of Krishna’s flute.

This species - a type of orb weaver spider - creates a wheel-shaped web of sticky threads to catch flying insects. As the spider grows, it elongates its web, which entangles anything that lands on it. The patterns on the spider’s back have been known to attract prey while its bright orange belly is thought to startle potential predators.

Dhritiman Mukherjee, Wildlife and Conservation Photographer and Competition Judge, commented that ‘this image conveys so many interesting things to me. What I like most is the thought process behind it and the composition of the image. It talks about coexistence very nicely. The inclusion of a historic sculpture adds a different dimension to the concept. Then here we are, seeing a spider - a smaller and less attended life form. So, for me, this one served the purpose of art, concept, conservation and science very nicely.’

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