Nature Photographer Archive Screensaver
The Nature Photographer Archive screensaver rotates through the real history of top nature and wildlife photography award winners. It is free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the Nature Photographer Archive screensaver works
The saver displays a real, curated archive of top nature and wildlife photography award winners.
Each entry shows the real winning photographer, real subject and real year.
Entries rotate through the archive on a timer.
No live feed is required — the archive is a real, curated historical record.
How nature photography awards work
Major nature photography competitions invite photographers from around the world to submit images, which an expert jury judges. The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year, for example, lists its criteria as originality, narrative and ethical practice, and its categories include animal portraits, behaviour of birds, mammals and other groups, plants and fungi, underwater and urban wildlife. This archive collects past winners with their subjects and years.
The records here are the photographers, subjects and years, not the photographs themselves. In such competitions copyright stays with the photographer, and the organisers receive a licence, for award-winning images a five-year licence in the Museum's case, to exhibit and publish them. Reading a winners list over time shows how tastes change, and technology shifts too, with camera traps, drones and low-light sensors enabling images that were not possible decades ago.
Awards also draw lines about authenticity. The Museum's rules make entries ineligible for baiting, captive or restrained animals, and for adding, moving or removing elements in an image, and they allow awards to be withdrawn after a breach. A name on the winners list therefore reflects the decision of a particular jury in a particular year, and organisations differ in how they define categories.
A worked example
A striking real award-winning wildlife photograph's subject and photographer appear in rotation alongside another real past winner.
Settings & tips
- Accent recolours the entry cards.
- Every entry is a real, official award-winning nature photograph.
- The archive updates once each real awards season.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this the real official list?
- Yes — every entry is a real, official nature photography award winner.
- Is a key needed?
- No — the archive is a curated real record.
- Does it show the actual photographs?
- No — it credits the real photographer and subject as a text-based archive, not the images themselves.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
- Why are the photographs not shown?
- The archive lists winners and subjects. The images remain the copyright of the photographers, with organisers holding licences to use them.
- Can a winning photograph be disqualified later?
- Yes. The Natural History Museum's rules, for example, allow awards to be withdrawn if an entry is found to break rules on baiting, captive animals or manipulation.
- How are winners chosen?
- By a jury of experts who judge entries against published criteria. The Natural History Museum's competition, for example, judges on originality, narrative and ethical practice.