{"id":339907,"date":"2025-12-12T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:00:17","slug":"fairytale-like-shot-of-elusive-blue-arctic-fox-wins-2025-national-wildlife-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339907\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairytale-Like Shot of Elusive Blue Arctic Fox Wins 2025 National Wildlife Photo Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Kathleen Borshanian has won the National Wildlife Federation’s 2025 National Wildlife Photo Contest<\/p>\n

The Utah-based photographer’s stunning shot of a female blue Arctic fox was captured on Alaska’s St. George Island<\/p>\n

As well as scoring the contest’s top prize, Borshanian also won $5,000<\/p>\n

The winner of the National Wildlife Federation’s 2025 National Wildlife Photo Contest looks like something straight out of a movie.<\/p>\n

The photo, which was captured by Kathleen Borshanian, shows a female blue Arctic fox perched on a cliff on Alaska’s St. George Island.<\/p>\n

“On the high bluffs of St. George Island, there is a 1,000-foot sea cliff where numerous fox trails cut a path precariously close to the edge,” Borshanian said in a press release<\/a> announcing the winner of the annual wildlife photography contest.<\/p>\n

The photographer, who is from Salt Lake City, hid behind a tussock and used a telephoto lens to capture the fox, who was about 75 feet away with her kits sleeping nearby.<\/p>\n

\"Kathleen<\/p>\n

Kathleen Borshanian\/2025 National Wildlife<\/p>\n

Kathleen Borshanian’s winning photo taken on St. George Island in Alaska<\/p>\n

As well as scoring the contest\u2019s top prize, Borshanian also won $5,000, according to USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The annual contest is now in its 54th year. The 2025 event received nearly 30,000 submissions from more than 3,200 photographers across the U.S. and around the world, according to a National Wildlife Federation release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The stunning images highlight the diversity and majesty of wildlife, plants, and landscapes from across the globe,” National Wildlife magazine said.<\/p>\n

“In reviewing this year’s photo contest entries, our judges noted a couple of unmistakable themes. First, there are astonishing glimpses of nature’s sheer strength, from an onrush of lava in Iceland to a shimmering burn set to contain a wildfire in Pennsylvania,”\u00a0Jennifer Wehunt, editorial director of National Wildlife magazine, wrote of the photos.<\/p>\n

“And then there are surprises that defy the everyday: a night bus of nautical hitchhikers, a fox straight out of a fairy tale. That ability to amaze\u2014that’s also the power of nature,” Wehunt added.<\/p>\n

\"Deena<\/p>\n

Deena Sveinsson2025 National Wildlife<\/p>\n

Deena Sveinsson’s photo of three bull moose in Wyoming<\/p>\n

Along with the grand prize, first and second place in eight categories \u2014 including mammals, birds, baby animals and young nature photographers \u2014 were also announced.<\/p>\n

Taking top spot in the mammals category was Deena Sveinsson\u2019s shot of three bull moose.<\/p>\n

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\"Leo<\/p>\n

Leo Dale\/2025 National Wildlife<\/p>\n

Leo Dale’s shot of a solo coyote in California<\/p>\n

Taken in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the Colorado resident says the photos \u201clooks like a movie poster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sveinsson went to great measures to capture the image, waiting hours for the moose to move before \u201csquatting as low as I could get in the cold, muddy water.\u201d<\/p>\n

“My socks, pants, and coat got completely soaked with that smelly mud,” she added.<\/p>\n

In the young nature photographers category, Leo Dale captured a breathtaking shot of a solo coyote at Point Reyes National Seashore in California.<\/p>\n

“I’m always on the lookout around dusk,” said Dale, who is from Sonoma and was 17 when he took the photo in fall 2024. He spotted the animal “as a magnificent, clouded sunset was materializing.”<\/p>\n

\"Ajay<\/p>\n

Ajay Kumar Singh\/2025 National Wildlife<\/p>\n

Ajay Kumar Singh captured a flamboyance of flamingos in Bahrain<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, further afield, the second spot in the birds was secured by Ajay Kumar Singh at Eker Creek in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Singh’s shot of a flamboyance of flamingos was captured in “early morning, when it was dark, and the building and streetlights were still on.”<\/p>\n

\"Remuna<\/p>\n

Remuna Beca\/2025 National Wildlife<\/p>\n

Remuna Beca scored second place with this photo of a nurse shark in The Bahamas<\/p>\n

Another second-place winner was Remuna Beca’s underwater shot of a nurse shark in The Bahamas.\u00a0“I captured our moment of eye contact,” Beca, of Pompano Beach, Fla., said of the unique photo.<\/p>\n

Photographers can enter next year’s contest starting on Jan. 14, 2026, per the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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