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9th RICOH Photo Contest Winning Photos
9th RICOH Photo Contest Winning Photos
Judges' Award
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The frog gives birth to the bird?!  Photographer  Masaya Suzuki  Camera used  CX1
Photographer's comments
Hearing a bird call that I did not recognize, I decide to take a look. What I found was a small bird, a Japanese Great Tit, in the middle of building a nest in the stomach of a ceramic frog. While they were unexpected and nonpaying tenants, the bird family gave me much pleasure over the several months from nest building through child raising. The parents successfully reared three chicks and launched them from the nest.
Reason for selection
The roundness of this ceramic frog is very cute, but am I the only one who would really like to see what the lower half of its body looks like? And, besides the bird, I would like to see various other thinks emerge. For example, something like... (Judge:MASASHI ASADA)

This is a high-level image. I think it's really amazing. The photographer captured a fine moment. (Judge:KAYO UME)

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