/ 2025 / Nature / Wildlife

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  David Hall, United States
• Date of Photograph
  4/30/2025

A symphony of blush and fire, this flamingo folds into itself like a living sculpture—elegant, vigilant, and ablaze with the poetry of plumage. Each feather, a brushstroke in nature’s palette, glows against the shadows, where softness meets intensity in a quiet act of self-possession.