An overall of 11,929 pictures were sent to the competitors, from 1,086 professional photographers in 52 nations. Here are a few of our favorites– a stunning mix of dawns and sundowns, snowstorms and hailstorms and volcanoes of every sort.
Twenty-seven-year-old Abraham Saikley of the U.S. was called Photographer of the Year. He’s invested the previous 4 years residing on the roadway and photographing a few of the most significant landscapes in the world. This shot, entitled “Shadow Puppets,” is of the Chaltén Massif range of mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile. Credit: Abraham SaikleyLukas Furlan of Austria won Photographer of the Year. Amongst his submissions was this untitled shot of late-fall weather condition in the Dolomites in northeastern Italy. Credit: Lukas FurlanThis image from Photographer of the Year runner-up Dorin Bofan of Romania functions cooling lava translucented hail, snapped at the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland. Credit: Dorin BofanThe image above, “The Still Woods,” was caught in Shizuoka, Japan, by KoKi Dote, who was granted 3rd location in the Photographer of the Year classification. Dote himself is from Japan, and he states “whatever was still, as though time had actually stopped” when the picture was taken. Credit: KoKi DoteGabriel Stankiewicz from Poland recorded Project Winner honors for his work under the title “The Pine Constant”– years invested photographing pine forests all over from the cold of the Arctic to the heat of the Mediterranean. This image, “First Settlers,” is of a high-altitude, volcanic landscape controlled by Canary pines in Tenerife, Spain. Credit: Gabriel StankiewiczThe Project Runner-Up was offered to Kenny Muir from the U.K., for his “Caledonian Winter” work photographing the Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands. This significant image, “Frozen Forest,” was taken as the early morning fog was distributing, with the increasing sun capturing a few of the forest’s snow-laden branches. Credit: Kenny MuirThe Natural Landscape Photography Awards likewise consist of numerous particular classifications. “A Breath Between Storms” took home the Grand Landscape reward. It was caught by Swiss professional photographer Xavier Lequarre in South Lípez, Bolivia, from almost 14,800 feet up the side of a volcano. Credit: Xavier LequarreThe Intimate Landscape winner was “Drifting Petals, Fading Spring” by Japanese professional photographer Hiroyuki Tsuchiya. “The scene stimulates the peaceful shift of seasons– a short lived sense of spring sticking around for a minute before liquifying into time,” discussed Tsuchiya. Credit: Hiroyuki TsuchiyaVincenzo Mazza from Italy protected the Abstract Landscapes award for this picture of the Skeiðarárjökull glacier in Iceland called “Patterns of Time.” In the words of Mazza: “The patterns of ashes, mixing perfectly with the fractures and crevasses of the ice, inform the story of a classic ballet in between fire and ice.” Credit: Vincenzo MazzaJulian Łoziński from Poland won the Multiple Exposure and ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) classification for “Layers of Tree and Water.” This image was recorded by a lake in southern Sweden as the sun was setting. The six-shot several direct exposure of trees and their reflections was developed completely in cam. Credit: Julian ŁozińskiThe Waterscapes classification went to Annette Cuthbertson’s “4’s business, 5’s a crowd.” The area is Assynt, in the Northern Scottish Highlands, and the image was taken throughout a break in a storm– a couple of minutes when “the scene came alive,” Cuthbertson states. Credit: Annette Cuthbertson
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