Six million antelope traverse South Sudan’s eastern plains in the planet’s largest land migration, captured beautifully by Nat Geo photographer Marcus Westberg. National Geographic photographers went to incredible lengths and employed boundless creativity to capture our 2025 Pictures of the Year. Take a look behind the lens to discover how they captured these iconic images: https://on.natgeo.com/3YuwiH2 | National Geographic

What does it take to capture one of National Geographic's Pictures of the Year 2025? For Nat Geo photographer Fernando Faciole, it meant trudging through Brazil’s dense Atlantic Forest in search of a giant armadillo burrow to set up elaborate camera traps. He then returned every 45 days to change batteries and check memory cards, all while contending with armies of ticks that he says were “so tiny that we often did not notice them getting on us.” In the end, his efforts were rewarded, albeit uni