When you picture an environmental photo winner, you imagine something epic. Crashing waves, a lone polar bear on shrinking ice, perhaps a heartbreaking aerial shot of deforestation. Britta Jaschinski's image is none of those things.
Handprint on Sea Turtle looks, at first glance, like a digital artwork or a still from a sci-fi film: a green sea turtle rendered in deep purples and blues, surrounded by neon-green constellations of light. Look closer, and you'll spot a human handprint glowing on its shell. That's not post-processing. It's forensic science, photographed under ultraviolet light.
