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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