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Indian-American wins National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’ award beating over 5000 entries

The photo was selected from nearly 5,000 entries across four categories: Nature, People, Places, and Animals

February 24, 2023

Indian-American software engineer Karthik Subramaniam wins 2023 National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’ award

Karthik Subramaniam, a San Francisco-based Indian-American software engineer, has won the 2023 National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’ award, beating over 5,000 entries. The photo will be featured in the May issue of National Geographic magazine.

Subramaniam’s photo, which is titled ‘Dance of the Eagles‘, shows a trio of bald eagles battling for a spot on a branch in Alaska’s Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, a press release by the magazine said.

The photo was selected from nearly 5,000 entries across four categories: Nature, People, Places, and Animals.

He titled the image as a homage to a fictional dragon war in George R R Martin‘s novel, ‘A Dance with Dragons’. The engineer-turned-hobbyist photographer said he stayed, watching as bald eagles swooped in and out of the fishing grounds in Haines, Alaska.

“Wherever there’s salmon there’s going to be chaos,” Subramaniam told the magazine that this was his motto as he camped out near the shore of the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, waiting for action.

The fishing grounds in Haines, Alaska, host the largest congregations of bald eagles in the world every fall when around 3,000 arrive in time for the salmon run.

Subramaniam has been photographing landscapes and his travels for years. He started experimenting with wildlife photography in 2020, grounded by the pandemic in his San Francisco home.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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