This nose-to-lens giraffe photograph earned a major award for its dramatic camera phone perspective

A close-up, wide-angle shot of a giraffe's head leaning dramatically toward the camera, contrasting its patterned neck and body against a grassy landscape under a dramatic, cloudy sky.

There's a particular kind of photograph that only a curious animal and a very wide-angle lens can produce together.

German photographer Marcel Ohneberger's giraffe portrait is exactly that: an enormous, looming head fills most of the frame, its neck curving away into a distant landscape of grassland and hills, while a single dark eye stares down the lens.