The presentation of the award at the Nature Talks Photo Festival in the Netherlands marked the end of a competition at which over 14,000 images were submitted by photographers from 73 different countries. Entries were divided into 11 categories including Birds, Mammals, Plants and mushrooms, Landscapes, Underwater and Man and Nature. Category winners were then pitted against each other to decide the Grand Prize: the prestigious title of Nature Photographer Of The Year.

Stephen McMennamy is an Atlanta-based creative director and Instagram star who loves to boggle our minds with his surreal photo mash-ups.

Cassey Ho is a blogger who analyzed the top 100 most followed female Instagrammers and came up with 22 attributes for each woman to be judged on. She claims that there is a formula, or a beauty standard, that defines if a woman is at the top or at the bottom of beauty pyramid.

You might have seen our previous post about Luigi Kemo Volo creating photo montages of Disney character in real world. But Luigi is also a very talented illustrator who loves to blur the line between imagination and reality.

Joseph Ford is a photographer who has been working with Nina Dodd, a knitter who creates these incredibly detailed custom jumpers that look invisible in Joseph’s carefully staged photos.