40 Stunning Photographs of Nature, Up Close and Personal

“Bufo Bufo” by Mathieu Foulquié
Third Place, “Animals”

A photo of a frog shot at eye level, with a clear look at both her underwater limbs and her eyes popping above the surface
Photo: Mathieu Foulquié
This common toad (Bufo bufo) took a liking to me, probably because I looked like a frogman myself. He didn’t stop following me during my two-hour dive in the Buèges karst spring (Hérault, Occitanie, France), so he became the perfect model.
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