The Life on Earth Photography - 1st Place

View all entries click here: The Life on Earth Photography Competition

Congratulations to Cecilie Bergan Stuedal from Alta, Norway with this winning image entitled 'Aerodynamic crab'

Background:

''Last year, I spent several nights in the midnight sun with a small family of foxes here in Finnmark. They contributed to many incredible and fond moments over the summer of 2025, and I feel privileged to have observed the cubs grow into confident hunters.

The fox in this photo is the bravest of the two cubs in the family. On that particular July night, around 2 am, it approached me, and I noticed that it was chewing on a crab. It finished its snack, and I took some photos of the fox as it strolled about and posed a bit. After a while, it went into the bladderwrack/seaweed and started to hunt crabs again. Suddenly, the cub threw a crab into the air. The crab landed back in the bladderwrack, but the cub relocated it and started to munch happily on its prey. It was that split-second moment I managed to capture in a photo.''

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2nd place see HERE
3rd place see HERE
Highly Commended images see HERE