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]

• 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

 

[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

 

[Franbw]

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 298.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 3200

sony a1 f7.1 298 mm 200-600 fe 1/1000 sec. taken this last august in Katimai National Park. I have 1000's of images of bears and it was hard to decide on a favorite, but I love his hair style and the way he ambushes fish to catch them. I'm not sure how to load metadata- so I wrote it in. If there is another way please let me know as I haven't posted before.

 

[Doug Herr]

• ILCE-1
• FE 600mm F4 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 400

 

[Brian Scantlebury]

Australasian Harrier making a glutton of itself just out of my ktchen window. He's caught a common pigeon for breakfast.

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

 

[ebbimage1]

ILCE 7RM5, Fe 200-600mm @ 600mm, 1/3200 shutter speed, f6.3, ISO1000

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Paetawa]

Face-time in Soho

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 500

 

[picquic]

Entry December competition...

• ILCE-6700
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 125

 

[Elscn]

I love looking at nature through my macro lens (Sigma 105 mm). Every time, I feel transported to another world, filled with wonder at all that beauty. Discovering the many details is so rewarding, details we wouldn't otherwise see.

• ILCE-7M3
• 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO | Art 020
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/3.5
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160

 

[Nikas Photography]

one step at a time ! Puffin in the Norwegian Artic

I took this image this August on a amazing excursion to the Arctic