#Sascha Fonseca

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'The World Is Mine' 

"A strikingly beautiful Snow leopard roams across the jagged peaks of the Ladakh mountain range in India. “

By Sascha Fonseca

Nature Photographer Of The Year

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Himalayan summer.

Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by photographer Sascha Fonseca's carefully positioned camera trap

Photo by: @sascha.fonseca

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Photograph: Sascha Fonseca

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Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), family Felidae, Ladakh, India

photograph by Sascha Fonseca

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Snow Leopard on the Himalayan mountains.

Photo by Sascha Fonseca

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Photo: Sascha Fonseca

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Sascha Fonseca 

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Himalayan Summer.

Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by photographer Sascha Fonseca's carefully positioned camera trap

Photo by: @sascha.fonseca

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A photo of a snow leopard on the icy cliffs of northern India has won the people's choice award for the 58th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award, the Natural History Museum in London announced Thursday.

Sascha Fonseca captured this image during a three-year bait-free camera-trap project in Leh, Ladakh, India, high in the Indian Himalayas. Because of their remote habitat, they are one of the most difficult large cats to photograph in the wild.

Sascha Fonseca/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155633439/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year

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"Top of the World". Ladakh, India

Photographer: Sascha Fonseca

Nature TTL Photographer of the Year

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A snow leopard against a backdrop of the mountains of Ladakh in northern India 

(© Sascha Fonseca / Wildlife Photographer of the Year)

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Among the Flowers. Martin Gregus watched this polar-bear cub playing in a mass of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada. Every so often, the cub would take a break from its fun, stand on its hind legs, and poke its head up above the high flowers to look for its mother. © Martin Gregus/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A Golden Huddle. Two female and one male golden snub-nosed monkey huddle together to keep warm in the extreme winter cold. Threatened mainly by forest loss and fragmentation, this endangered species is confined to central China. Restricted to living high up in the temperate forests, these monkeys—here in the Qinling Mountains, in Shaanxi province—feed mostly in the trees, on leaves, bark, buds, and lichen. © Minqiang Lu/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Caribbean Crèche. Claudio Contreras Koob was lying down on the mud a safe distance from a breeding colony of Caribbean, or American, flamingos, in Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. It was June, and the flamingo chicks had already left their nests and were in crèches. These crèches are always guarded by adult birds, so when the chicks began to approach Koob, the adults surrounded them and gently led them back to the colony. © Claudio Contreras Koob/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Head to Head. The spectacle of two female musk oxen attacking each other surprised Miquel Angel Artús Illana. For four days, he had been following a musk-ox family in Norway’s Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park—a male, a female, and three calves. On a beautiful high plateau, another similar-size family of musk ox appeared. Expecting a male head-to-head (it was September and the females were in heat), he was disappointed when the two males came to an immediate understanding and the weaker one backed off. It was then that the two females began their short but intense fight. © Miquel Angel Artús Illana/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Red and Yellow. Near Rausu port, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, several hundred glaucous-winged gulls waited for the return of fishermen. It was the beginning of March and freezing, and the air was full of the raucous calls of the gulls overhead. Some of the birds began to settle, keeping their eyes on the horizon. Focusing on one bird, Chloé Bès composed a minimalist portrait, highlighting the eye and the beak. The red spot on the beak develops when gulls are adult and is in part a reflection of their health. © Chloé Bès/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Holding On. This leopardess had killed a monkey in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. The monkey’s baby was still alive and clinging to its mother. Igor Altuna watched as the predator walked calmly back to her own baby. Her cub played with the baby monkey for more than an hour before killing it, almost as if it had been given live prey as a hunting lesson. © Igor Altuna/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

World of the Snow Leopard. Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by Sascha Fonseca’s carefully positioned camera trap. Thick snow blankets the ground, but the big cat’s dense coat and furry foot pads keep it warm. Fonseca captured this image during a three-year bait-free camera-trap project high up in the Indian Himalayas. © Sascha Fonseca/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

In a Flap, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺! ‘The far eastern curlew is the largest migratory shore bird in the world, and is listed as critically endangered in Australia. They start their life in Russia and north-eastern China before flying to Australia, where they rely on the intertidal mudflats for food and habitat. This image was taken in Wellington Point, Queensland, three hours before the high tide.’ Photograph: Manoj Kutty Padeettathil Manilal

Storm Brewing, Mozambique 🇲🇿! ‘Rainy skies closing in on a local fisherman’s boat on Bazaruto Island, Mozambique.’ Photograph: Terry Dunnem

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“World of the snow leopard” by Sascha Fonseca, Germany.

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(by Sascha Fonseca)