The photos that won the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition win, because according to organizers, they, ?[celebrate] the power of photography to communicate science and shows the beautiful image discovered whilst exploring our world.? The top winner of the 2017 competition was taken by a polar ecologist named Peter Convey. According mnn.com, ?Convey photographed an Antarctic ice sheet being stretched in two directions with a Twin Otter plan flying overhead for scale. The photo was taken in 1995 during a flight over the souther Antarctic Peninsula.?