Best Entries From The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer

"Fox caught in action under the rain"





"The fox was bathing in the snow flake."





A colossal Cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37000 feet en route to South America





Moving At A Snail's Pace...





Icescape





"This image was taken last summer on Skomer Island, Wales. It is well known for its wildlife, the puffin colony is one of the largest in U.K.The photo shows a detail or study of an Atlantic puffin resting peacefully under the rain. As Skomer is inhabited, puffins do not feel afraid of humans, and so people can be close to puffins and the photographer can think about the right composition and take this kind of intimate portraits. Also that morning the conditions came together: rain and light."





"Waves of fog roll over a neighborhood in Mill Valley, California, as seen from the top of Mount Tamalpais."





Mystic Woods





Walrus





Alien Lights





Phantom Spring





Ufo Formation