Winners Gallery
3rd place Human Connection Award: People & Planet Ocean
Jeroen Hoekendijk Texel, The Netherlands
"On a stormy grey morning, a rider is confronted with a dead whale," says Hoekendijk. "Both horse and rider appear to salute the whale, a victim of a mass stranding of 30 whales around the North Sea. Scientific papers hypothesised that strong solar storms had interfered with the whales' natural 'GPS', deceiving them into these shallow waters."
BEHIND THE LENS
Jeroen Hoekendijk Netherlands
ABOUT THE IMAGE
- Stormy conditions
- Morning shoot
- Site accessed on foot
- Local site to photographer
Jeroen loves the sea. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Groningen and is currently working at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Much of his free time is spend with his camera, travelling to many locations along the North Atlantic and North Pacific, photographing cetaceans.
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Conservation (Impact)Photographer of the Year
2023 Netherlands
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