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From Wild Art Photographer of the Year 2021
#1 Abstracts Gold Award Winner- Rachel Piper, United Kingdom.
'I took this photograph in an empty field one September morning, when the sun was still low in the sky; I was surrounded by spiders’ webs, which had been weaved on plants, and I became mesmerised by the beauty of the light falling on them. In order to capture the colourful spectrums, I selected the shallowest depth of field and chose my angle with care.'
From Wild Art Photographer of the Year 2021
9 Abstracts – Highly Commended – Brian Hammond, United Kingdom
'....I wanted to capture the evening swarming midges along the RSPB Leighton Moss causeway and experimented with a range of methods to do so. This image was taken by pre-setting and locking the focus plane while trying to maintain this distance with a section of the swarm. A slow shutter speed was used to capture their flight path, and a telephoto lens with extension tubes helped to limit the depth of focus, producing a suitable midge size and allowing the selection of an area with a high concentration of individuals....'
From Nature Photographer of the Year 2020
#30 Category Landscapes: Winner, ‘Il Bosco Incantato’ By Stanislao Basileo
'One winter morning in January taking advantage of the spectacle of the frost I went for a walk along the river Po looking for particular situations. At one point I was observing a spectacular situation created by many branches of larches falling to the ground completely covered by frost. It seemed to me an ‘Il bosco incantato'
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From Nature Photographer of the Year 2020
#25 Category Landscapes: Runner-Up, ‘Electric’ By Joshua Cripps
'Stirling Falls, New Zealand is a marvelous sight in a marvelous country. Located in Milford Sound, it’s a waterfall that plummets 500 feet to land directly on the ocean’s surface. When the conditions are just right, the water falling from the sky impacts the rocks at the base off the cliff and ricochets outward, creating a marvelous display of patterns and textures....'
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From Nature Photographer of the Year 2020
#21 Category Natural Art: Highly Commended, - ‘Sound And Vision’ By Alessandro Carboni
'I had the privilege to visit Alaska for the first time in 2015. Since then I felt in love with its unique natural environment: Alaska became a lifetime project. Every year I try to spend time through the wilderness seeking for an intimate way to portray its beauty. This picture represents one the most intense moments I could remember during my life. It was September 2015, when after two weeks waiting I had been lucky enough to experience an amazing mix of extraordinary elements, which I will never forget: the impressive display of the autumn colours at their top and the first snow of the season....'
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From Nature Photographer of the Year 2020
#3 Category Black & White: Highly Commended, ‘Birch Columns’ By Kirsi Mackenzie
“This photo was taken in Finland. In preparation for the summer season, a crowd of birch trees sets off from deep in the forest to assume their seasonal postings throughout the Finnish landscape. Simplicity and tranquility create a Zen-like mood.
I converted this image to black and white to emphasize the texture. The absence of color allows concentrating on lines and forms without any distracting elements.”
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'CEW Photo Award is the biggest photo contest in the world. A total of over 606,289 photos from 170 countries were uploaded in ten exciting categories. The competition motto “Our world is beautiful”....'
#28 Aerial Photos – Category Winner By Azim Khan Ronnie
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'The Beauty of Nature – 1st Place by Tobias Friedrich
Diver with lights in minus two degree Celsius water in East Greenland under the ice in a frozen fjord swimming around icebergs.'
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From the ‘Drone Photo Awards 2021.’
#30 Abstract – Commended: Tailing Dam Abstract by David Dahlenburg
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From the ‘Drone Photo Awards 2021.’
#38 Series – Runner up: Abstract nature by Manuel Enrique González Carmona
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From the ‘Drone Photo Awards 2021.’
#28 Abstract – 1st classified: Poisoned River by Gheorghe Popa
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From the ‘Drone Photo Awards 2021.’
#26 Nature – Commended: City of Angels by Silvano Paiola
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From the 'Drone Photo Awards 2021.'
#22 Nature – 1st classified: Extragalactic by Martin Sanchez
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From the 'Drone Photo Awards 2021.'
#39 Series – Highly commended: Ice Anatomy by Gheorghe Popa
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From his photo series
'....taken from the Vintage Car Rally show in Kolkata. The Statesman Vintage & Classic Car Rally is an annual vintage car rally in New Delhi and Kolkata and the oldest, continuously-run such event in India and the sub-continent...'
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‘…from his awarded water.shapes.earth project, exploring artistic farmlands in dry area of Spain near Zaragoza and Toledo, where, along the backs of mountains, dried out streams had become farmland. Not only were these parcels easy to reach, but the soil’s moisture content and the fertile conditions produced by the stream’s deposits helped farmers weather the dry summer season…’
'...from his awarded water.shapes.earth project, exploring artistic farmlands in dry area of Spain near Zaragoza and Toledo, where, along the backs of mountains, dried out streams had become farmland. Not only were these parcels easy to reach, but the soil’s moisture content and the fertile conditions produced by the stream’s deposits helped farmers weather the dry summer season...'
2022 Siena Drone Photo Awards
#16 Nature: Highly Commended by Dimitar Karanikolov
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2022 Siena Drone Photo Awards
#1 Photo Of The Year by Armand Sarlangue
'....The winning shot, selected by the jury among thousands of images submitted by 2624 participants from 116 countries, portrays a secondary fissure happening a few hundreds meters from the main crater of Fagradalsfjall volcano, in Iceland....'
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One of the winners of the 2023 Nature inFocus Photography Award...
#14 Wildscape & Animals in Their Habitat – This Photograph is Something ‘Elsa’! By Hira Punjabi Special Mention
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'....The Finnish photographer has recently turned an eye towards the carnivorous plant Drosera, which is more commonly known as a “Sundew” – a moniker referring to the droplets that collect on the plants, akin to a morning dew. Those condensation-like beads, however, aren't from water. They're the result of the plant luring, capturing, and digesting insects....'
Also'.....“Sundews have always fascinated me, and I have been photographing these alien-like plants for several years now,” Niemel says. “My first first photo series Drosera was mostly bright and vibrant, so I wanted to have some contrast to that in my second series of Sundews. I think the colors and the mood of Otherworldly Blues reflect aptly the true nature of these carnivorous plants.”....'
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'....Perani uses a 10x microscope objective attached to a 200mm lens, which creates an almost nonexistent depth of field. “The lens must be moved no more than 3 microns per photo to achieve focus across the thickness of the subject which can be up to 8 millimeters,”...'
