![]() ![]() “It is surprising, energetic, and intriguing, and has an otherworldly beauty.” The photograph, called “Creation,” captures “a magical moment,” said Roz Kidman Cox, chair of the judging panel, in a press release. Photographer Laurent Ballesta spent 3,000 hours trying to capture it.įor his photograph of this extraordinary phenomenon, called “Creation,” Ballesta, a frequent National Geographic photographer, has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year, awarded today by London’s Natural History Museum, which organizes the competition annually and displays an exhibit of the winners. The mating is so rare and so fleeting that it happens only once a year, for about 30 minutes, around the full moon in July. ![]() ![]() Two groupers, just mated, exit a cloud of eggs and sperm in the Fakarava Atoll, part of French Polynesia. Deep underwater, the camera’s flash captures an explosion of new life. ![]()
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