Stuart Chambers

Semi-Finalist
MARCIN JAMKOWSKI: ECAD Photography Contest
Davis Strait, Northwest Passage

The road before us.

A well-plowed road leads the way through snowy mountains and frosty flora. Jacob Wilson, New York, 2023

A perch from the high plateaus surrounding Bryce Canyon offers a beautiful, tunnel-vision view of the national park’s wintry peaks.

Michael Calnan, Utah, 2009 / Smithsonian Magazine

Clouds of Gold shows the salt ponds that border San Francisco Bay. Jassen Todorov, US, reveals how the South Bay salt pond restoration has removed artificial dykes to recreate tidal marsh habitats that flourish once more.
Photograph: Jassen Todorov/2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The new stamp features a modern image by Montana-based wildlife photographer Tom Murphy alongside a historic bison stamp design from 1923. The new “American Bison” Forever stamp is slated to debut in May. U.S. Postal Service Smithsonian Magazine

Undeniably by far one of the worst Trump MAGA appointees, finally gone.

What a vile hideous man

The Road Ahead

The road to Mountain Fitz Roy in Argentina.

#argentina #travel
Photo by Ilhan Sen / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

Anime, Manga and Traditional Art Come Together at an Upcoming Auction—’The sale places pop culture artifacts in conversation with Japan’s rich visual traditions and the enduring resonance of motifs, techniques and narratives rooted in Japan’s past” Smithsonian Magazine

Sun dog while on my way to work, on a summer morning, with heavy dew.

#newyork #rainbow #sun
Photo By ; Sabrina Sobieski / Smithsonian Magazine

Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite overtourism concerns, one enclave may offer a model for how to protect the charismatic apex predator Smithsonian Magazine

Surabaya, Indonesia
People wait to receive charitable Zatak donations at the Cheng Hoo mosque during Ramadan
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian

Wild and Wondrous Photographs of Yellowstone National Park : Smithsonian Magazine

A bee forages on a crocus in Bern, Switzerland
Photograph: Anthony Anex/EPA/Guardian

The world would be a much better place if we all worked together to be kinder

London, England
An imitation gravestone with a picture of the late Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser, stands in front of Buckingham Palace, placed there by protesters from the group Everyone Hates Elon
Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP/ Guardian

The photograph showcases a young tiger under a vibrant blue sky filled with fluffy clouds that add depth to the scene. The image conveys a sense of freedom.

#south #africa #tiger
Photo ; Pablo Trilles Farrington Smithsonian Magazine

We’ve Been Manipulating Images Since the Invention of Photography—Long Before Photoshop or Artificial Intelligence
Dating to between 1860 and 1940, more than 50 photographs depicting the impossible are on view in a new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Smithsonian Magazine

Seeing a tiger in the wild still fills Ullas Karanth with awe. “They’re beyond anything a human painter or sculptor could create,” says Karanth, founder of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, a conservation group in India, where he has been studying tigers since the 1980s.

Vietnam Phú Quốc Island. Since a 2024 change in regulations, the island has seen 286 project approvals for tourism and residential development, displacing hundreds of families and clearing hundreds of acres of protected forest.

Le Quynh | Mongabay | Pullitzr Center Photos 2025

The root cause of all evil

In laboratory studies, coronae emit a faint blue light from the tips of spruce needles. In nature, ambient light drowns out this glow, so researchers used a special camera to detect invisible, ultraviolet emissions. (William Brune) Smithsonian Magazine

In the heart of the fishing community, fish are laid out under the sun to dry, a process known as "shutki polli." The scene captures the spirit of the people as they prepare dried fish, a staple of local cuisine and a time-honored tradition.

#bangladesh #dry #fish
Photograph: Pinu Rahman

Ice Edge Journey shows an emperor penguin colony on the Ekström ice shelf, in Atka Bay, most of the fledgling chicks used ice ramps to enter the sea. But this group missed the easy way down and took a 15-metre (50ft) leap into the water.
Bertie Gregory/2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Kenya. Marina Cano, from Spain, was highly commended in the mammals’ behaviour category for her shot of the three Young cheetahs practising their hunting skills while their mother looked on.
Photograph: Marina Cano/2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Mejicanos, El Salvador
Children look at a massive /Gumural made of plastic bottle caps by Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares. It reinterprets the Mona Lisa with a Latin American identity and pays tribute to Salvadorian women
Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian

As sloths habitat disappears, sloths are forced to travel farther on the ground. The Costa Rican government is working with conservation organisations to establish wildlife corridors, that reconnect their forest habitat.
Photograph: Emmanuel Tardy/2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

No trees, no food, shot for fun … yet Serbia’s imperial eagles are making an improbable return
Less than a decade ago, the Balkan country had just one breeding pair of the eastern imperial species of raptor left. Now things are changing, thanks to the dogged work of conservationists

Romain Barats, Dominica – Ocean adventure finalist
A diver surrounded by a pod of sperm whales. “We saw 15 whales socialising,” says Barats. “The sea was rough but when you get to see something like that, you quickly forget the conditions”
Photograph: Romain Barats/Ocean Photographer of the Year

Crowds gather on Brighton beach, UK, to watch a starling murmuration after a day of warm sunshine. Photograph: Simon Dack News/Alamy Live News / Guardian