Bird Photographer of the Year – 2025

Bird Photographer of the Year – 2025. Some spectacular inspiration from the 33,000 images entered. Here are the winners: take a look at them all.

The European Goldfinches in the unharvested sunflower fields by Mateusz Piesiak blew me away. I will never bike or drive past an unharvested field of any kind again.

The title of Bird Photographer of the Year went to Liron Gertsmen for ‘The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring’ which shows a Magnificent Frigatebird silhouetted against a total solar eclipse. Gertsmen said he spent “well over a year” planning the image, which was taken off the coast of Mazatlán, Mexico. A video of the moment the photo was taken is below.

On the Sale of Corbis and Demotix to VGC: Brief Update About Photo Availability

On January 22, Corbis announced the sale of Corbis Images and the Demotix brand and content to Visual China Group (VGC), which through a new distribution partnership will in turn hand the collections over to Getty Images. Contributors to Demotix and Corbis were informed of the sale in a brief email on January 28, which further informed:… Continue reading