An impressionistic image of European Shags by Majed AlZa’abi from Kuwait took top prize in the 2020 Bird Photographer of the Year contest, which is run by the UK-based conservation charity Birds on the Brink. Majed wins the top prize of £5,000 (about $6,500) and the title “Bird Photographer of the Year 2020.” Majed’s image was also the winning image in the Best Portrait category of the competition, and for that he wins a pair of Swarovski Optik binoculars.

The judging team, which included BirdWatching Contributing Editor Brian Small and Editor Matt Mendenhall, said this about the shag photo:

“To win this competition, it takes a very special photograph. Technical perfection is simply not enough; it is the imaginative eye and a mind that seeks out the unusual and the artistic in the everyday that will do well. The vast majority of the 15,000 images entered annually are of an amazing standard, sufficient eye-candy to feed even the most visually gluttonous. But create a photograph that makes us sick with envy or cry out with uncontained excitement, then you are in with a chance. When that collective shout from the judges is ‘I wish I had taken that myself’, then you are onto a winner. Well done Majed for sharing this stunning image with us – it is a well-deserved winner.”

something make me happy when someone send to me screen capture from his mobile and it is one of my photos and every trip i post some free mobile and desktop BG for my followers and this time from Svalbard 2018 and soon i will post 2019 and 2020 trips for svalbard hope u will like the photos and plz check my instagram stories to see the coverage of the trip on this link

https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTc4Nzc4NzIxMDU1NTU3/

and now feel free to download the photos

using the Nikon D850 for wildlife photography in Safari and soon will post another video for the new lens 180 – 400 attached to D850