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On September 16, photographer Florian Riu captured short electrical discharges — red sprites, which occur at an altitude of 40–100 km during thunderstorms — above the mountain village of Montmajour in France. The footage spread widely online.
Aziz KarimovUzbekistan's only independent arthouse cinema, kinoxona, after two years of operating in the Yakkasaray district, has moved to the Mirabad district, at 17 Chimkent Street. Since October 25 it has been showing licensed festival and classic films daily, and to mark the housewarming a photo exhibition by Elena Martinova has opened — until November 30, admission is free.
Otabek YusupovJapan has announced the results of the annual Nikkor photo contest, held since 1953. The top prize went to Mayumi Takeuchi of Kanagawa Prefecture for an underwater shot taken from less than a meter away from a jellyfish. The jury described the frame as a “miracle.” The Gold award in the Nature category went to Koichi Ikeda of Fukuoka for a photo of two flying owls, taken with an 800 mm super-telephoto lens.
Sevara AzamovaLead artist of the photo-portrait studio DasPortret, Boris Nechaev, told Gazeta.Ru about the main mistakes in photography: being too close to the camera, comparing shots with one's mirror reflection, bad lighting and pose, a strained facial expression, and poorly chosen clothing.
Javlon TursunovThe publication Naked Science has presented the winners of a wildlife photography contest. First place went to Kevin Shi's photograph of a puma hunting a guanaco, second to Marco Gaiotti's shot of a gelada in Ethiopia, and third to Felix Belloin's photo of a sleeping polar bear in Svalbard.
Madina UsmonovaThe top prize of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 contest went to 'The Aftermath' by Italian Federico Veronesi: an elephant carries her dead calf in the Huab River valley in Namibia. The youth award was won by 14-year-old Oscar Wheatfield. In total, 20 winners were selected from a record 65,403 entries from 121 countries. The exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum in London on 16 October 2026.
Shahnoza Ergasheva
