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People's Choice Winner National Deer Key Refuge, Florida Keys. Photo © Kyle Miller "This was one of my last opportunities to shoot the sunset while in the Florida Keys, and I came close to calling it off when a summer squall popped up just as I arrived on location in the National Key Deer Refuge. I decided to wait it out, and after a few minutes the rain stopped and the clouds cleared just in time for sunset. After wading about a half mile across a shallow mangrove flat (and through dense clouds of mosquitoes), I set up shop and tried shooting several different compositions as the sun sank into the horizon. Although I did get several “keepers”, I didn’t feel that I’d captured the shot that I’d envisioned, and started to make my way back to the car. After a few minutes, the sky lit up with beautiful pastels and I immediately noticed that a small red mangrove tree that I’d passed earlier from the other direction provided the exact composition that I’d hoped to find. This ...

By : Azizi Embong- Active Digital Media, Terengganu Location: Kenyir Lake, Terengganu The Biggest   man made lake in South East Asia with more 340 islands with more than 209,000 hectar wide areas. The actractions in Kenyir Lake are: Kelah Sanctuary Elephant Sanctuary Bewah and Taat Caves the historical of Bewah Man Waterfalls Aqua industrial Zone at Sungai Como Free Trade Zone Area (coming soon in 2015

By: Azizi Embong: Active Digital Media - Photographer of Terengganu L0cation: Kenyir Lake, Terengganu

a people with a chicken is a tradition like soul and body. One of the heritage of Malay Culture The real games for the Malay child to be so close with a nature and the wonder chicken By: Pasak Pertukangan Kayu : Photographer from Terengganu

Carliforte Island, Sardinia, Italy A scuba diver photographs tuna as they swim into a tonnara—a maze of fixed nets—off Carliforte Island, Sardinia, Italy. The tonnara nets are part of an ancient fishing method, now practiced in only a few locations around the Mediterranean. The fish are channeled into a part of the maze from which they cannot retreat, and from where they can be hoisted onto boats, and slaughtered by hand. The killing, known as la mattanza, is surrounded by age-old tradition and ceremony. The fish—northern blue-fin or Mediterranean tuna—are at the end of a long migration, and can be up to 400 kilograms in weight. Tonnara fishing is a more sustainable technique than other methods of catching tuna, such as trawling. It is dying out not only because it is so labor-intensive, but because pollution and large-scale commercial fishing have diminished stocks. by:  FRANCESCO ZIZOLA NATIONALITY:  Italy WEBSITE:  www.zizola.com

A female of the Pterosoma planum species Heteropoda A female of the Pterosoma planum species, photographed in the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and Sydney, Australia. Pterosoma planum belongs to a group of predatory snails that live in the open sea. Individuals can grow up to three or four centimeters long. The species is carnivorous and hunts fish and other snails and slugs. It has a shell, but its body cannot be completely withdrawn. Pterosoma planum is planktonic—it floats passively, depending on currents for its movement—and pelagic, spending its entire lifecycle independent of either the bottom of the ocean or the coast. JOAN COSTA

A young male polar bear climbs on a cliff face above the ocean, attempting unsuccessfully to feed on eggs from the nests of Brünnich’s guillemots, in late July. Ostrova Oranskie, Novaya Zemlya, Russia A young male polar bear climbs on a cliff face above the ocean at Ostrova Oranskie, in northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia, attempting unsuccessfully to feed on eggs from the nests of Brünnich’s guillemots, in late July. The location falls within the Russkaya Arktika National Park, covering more than 46,000 square kilometers of islands and sea in the Arctic Ocean, one of the largest protected areas in the northern hemisphere. A polar bear’s primary prey is the seal, the blubber satisfying the bear’s enormous energy needs. Bears hunt seals from sea-ice platforms, and also use ice floes to move from place to place. In summer months, when much sea ice melts, polar bears can become stranded, and have to forage for what food they can. Their dependence on sea-ice platforms for food, traveli...

By: Aziziembong- Active Digital, Media, Terengganu

Dhaka, Bangladesh An overcrowded train approaches a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as more passengers wait to board. Millions of residents of Dhaka were traveling to their home villages to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday. Dhaka is fast becoming one of the largest cities in the world. Its present population of 13 million is expected to rise to between 22 and 25 million by 2020. The rapid population growth has put severe pressure on transport infrastructure. ANDREW BIRAJ NATIONALITY:  Bangladesh WEBSITE:  www.andrewbiraj.com ABOUT:  Andrew Biraj was born in 1982 in Bangladesh. He holds an advanced diploma in photography from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute Media Academy and a BA in photography from the University of Bolton, UK.

The legend icon of Terengganu amazing experience with turtle in Terengganu Playing with Kelah Fish in Kenyir Lake, Terengganu, amazing experience.  The fisherman life and culture. By Azizi Embong- active digital media, terengganu,MALAYSIA

Whooper swans are a northern hemisphere swan, with a range from Iceland to beyond Japan. Hokkaido, Japan Whooper swans on Lake Kussharo at dawn. The warm waters of the volcanic lake are usually slow to ice over, making it a good wintering habitat. Whooper swans are a northern hemisphere swan, with a range from Iceland to beyond Japan. They breed on islands and beside lakes and slow-flowing rivers from mid-May, and also frequently inhabit estuaries, marshes and floodplains. Their diet consists predominantly of leaves, stems and roots of aquatic plants. Around October, the swans fly to more temperate areas for winter. One 1,280-kilometer-long migration route, from Iceland to Ireland, is possibly the longest sea crossing by any swan species. STEFANO UNTERTHINER NATIONALITY:  Italy WEBSITE:  www.stefanounterthiner.com

Malgas Island, South Africa A Cape gannet comes in to land during the summer nesting season. Malgas Island, off the west coast of South Africa, is an important seabird breeding ground. Photo credit: Save Our Seas Foundation by:  THOMAS P. PESCHAK NATIONALITY:  Germany/South Africa WEBSITE:  www.thomaspeschak.com ABOUT:  Thomas P. Peschak is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine and a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).

The flightless emperor penguin is capable of becoming airborne, by swimming at up to three times its normal speed, and launching itself from the water to clear the edge of a shoreline. Recent research shows that the penguins do this by releasing air from their feathers, in the form of tiny bubbles. Ross Sea, Antarctica  An emperor penguin shoots toward the surface, in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Emperor penguins’ body shape and poor climbing ability make it difficult for the birds to haul themselves ashore, especially onto icy or rocky coasts. It is also a moment when they are especially vulnerable to attacks by predators, such as the leopard seal. But the flightless emperor penguin is capable of becoming airborne, by swimming at up to three times its normal speed, and launching itself from the water to clear the edge of a shoreline. Recent research shows that the penguins do this by releasing air from their feathers, in the form of tiny bubbles. The bubbles act as a l...