December 2025 Competition - Your Favorite Shot of 2025

[GeffBourke]

This beautiful leopard named Xivindzi poses with her kill on a tree in Greater Kruger National Park. She would go up and down the tree to drink at a small watering hole nearby and then return to eat. This was taken late in the evening.

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 122.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 25600

 

[isabel]

On a backroad in the Sonoran Desert, a Crested Caracara family was nesting in a Saguaro. I watched one of the parents fly off while the other parent stood watch to protect the fledglings from the Hawks that were flying above. The Caracara parent returned with a rodent which was quickly fed to the young.

• ILCE-1
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 560.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[Matthew Herron]

Please note the rules folks:

1. Sony cameras only.
2. Camera metadata must be included in the images to verify.
3. Only one photo entry per member.
4. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
5. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
6. You are free to change you image during the entry period.
7. There is no date restriction like we had last year.

Thank you!

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 600mm F4 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 1,200.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 6400

Tricolored heron in the rain, Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Georgia
a7rV with Sony 600mm f/4 & 2x teleconverter, F/8 1/640s ISO 6400

 

[Brian Scantlebury]

Australasian harrier or Circus approximans with recently caught prey at waters edge making a meal of it.

Sony ICLE 1

FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS | SEL200600G​

April 4 2025

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[Karen MM]

I am a creative Portrait photographer based in Whitianga, New Zealand. This is from my last shoot, playing with my smoke ninja. "Cernunnos Awakens"

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 800