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Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan

"I was recently in this little fishing village in Sulawesi, Indonesia, to see endangered macaques. I followed this macaque and his group for four days and captured some lovely moments," he recalls.

Since winning the contest, Bojan had the opportunity to lead a photo tour in Hokkaido, Japan, where he captured this red-crowned crane on a winter morning.

A crested kingfisher perches on a cold winter morning at the Ramganga River. "It's always interesting to shoot against the light to create artistic images," says Bojan.

Bojan has led a photo tour in Africa to coach photographers and capture wildlife, including this cheetah dappled in the morning light on the Masai Mara in Kenya.

Patience and commitment helped Bojan capture this stirring image of a a male orangutan peering from behind a tree while crossing a river in Borneo, Indonesia. Rampant palm oil cultivation threatens this critically endangered ape, forcing the normally arboreal species to resort to unusual behaviour—such as wading through crocodile-infested rivers—in order to survive.

In Indonesia's Tanjung Puting National Park, a male orangutan crosses a river. Your Shot photographer Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan stood in chest-high water to take this picture. He explains that orangutans typically avoid water, especally in situations like this one, where crocodiles may be present. But, he says, "Rapid palm oil farming has depleted their habitat and when pushed to the edge these intelligent creatures have learnt to adapt to the changing landscape."