Titled "Lake of ice," Vendramin's image won 31,800 votes among the 25 shortlisted images. It depicted the reflections of skeletal willow branches mirrored in the Santa Croce Lake in Northern Italy.

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The images were taken by photographer Pablo Cersosimo in Peninsula Valdes, Argentinian Patagonia, during the mating season for the South American sea lion, British news agency SWNS reports.

(Image credit: NPS) Male mountain lions can grow to be 8 feet (2.4 m) long from nose to the tip of their tail and weigh upwards of 220 pounds (100 kilograms).

The original photos provided to National Geographic did not clearly show the lions' sex. "I am 99 percent certain that both lions I photographed are male," says Cambré.