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WINNERS GALLERY Feb 2023

"Landscape" 2023 THEME WINNERS

From coastal regions, to plains and magnificent mountain ranges the Landscape view can be one of the most awe inspiring and beautiful images we will ever frame up.  Large in scale, lines, imagination and range but filled with so many beautiful details they can also be one of the most challenging to compose.

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Autumn Lines BY Panos Laskarakis

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Our First Place Winner was submitted by 
Panos Laskarakis ​​​​​​​​​ from Epirus, Greece
 
I first got involved in photography in 2005 and since then I have kept on evolving my techniques and knowledge, through a series of valuable experiences, by visiting several places on the planet like the Arctic, Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, capturing impressive sights with a different perspective.

Nature photography is love, passion, exploration, adventure, and creation. I always look for dramatic action and I feel alive in every sense when I experience the greatness of natural elements. I live my life traveling to every possible destination, searching for days on end for instantaneous, breathless scenes.

WILDLIFE, LANDSCAPE, AND TRIBES COMPOSE MY WORK!

The key behind great photography is hidden in the huge variety of landscapes, wildlife, and cultures as well as in the incredible wonders that emerge through the endless, magnificent power of nature. Photography is not only setting the limits of an instant shooting at the place of the main action, but also the printing and presentation in the gallery where nature comes to life in front of the public eye.

​Visit more of Panos ​'s​​​ amazing  ​work online at:
panoslaskarakis.com

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Lagh da Saoseo​ BY Judith ​Kuhn

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 Our Second Place Winner was submitted by 
Judith​ Kuhn​​​​​ from Immenstaad, Germany

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I would like to call myself an “ambitious amateur photographer”. My main focus is nature and landscape photography, but I also like to make detours to other genres.

Everything I know about photography is self-educated. A few books here, some internet research there, inspiration from the works of other photographers and a lot, really a lot of trying things out has brought me to where I am today.​

My great happiness is my home on beautiful Lake Constance, where I have a lot of photo spots right on my doorstep and the way to the Austrian, Swiss and Italian Alps is not too far. I also love to travel to more exotic destinations on my vacation, with the north being particularly appealing to me.

​Visit more of Judith​s​​​ amazing  ​work online at:
www.dreamscape-pictures.de​

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Laponia 3​​ by Stuart Chape

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 Our Third Place Winner was submitted by 
Stuart​ Chape​​​​​ from Kingscliff, Australia
Stuart is an An Australian award winning environmental photographer​

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Stuart​​'s​​​ amazing  ​work online at:
https://bluethumb.com.au/stuart-chape

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Dreizinnenhutte by Tomasz Rojek

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Our Honorable Mention Winner was submitted by 
Tomasz Rojek​​ ​from Rudy, Poland
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I was born in the mid-seventies and I am from Poland. My adventure with photography begins with a passion for travel. Many years ago, while still in college, I began to see the beauty of the world around us, its various corners, those close and those in distant countries. This led me to visit many places both in Poland and beyond its borders. An indispensable companion of every traveler is a camera. This was so in my case, but initially my photography was directed on documenting what I had the opportunity to see. Over time, I wanted something more than another photo from a trip, something more than another photo of one place or another. For several years I have been trying to create frames consciously, use the aura, the times of the day and the year to show my vision of the places I visit.

Today I carefully plan every trip for my photography. Both the places I visit and travel time are subjected to it. My idea for photography is to follow the light, seek and use it in the best possible way.​​

Visit more of Tomasz's​​​ amazing  ​work online at:
www.tomaszrojek.pl

Theme Shortlist

Below are the amazing  images that shortlisted into the top tier of this themes competition.  A  big congratulations to all the talented photographers that participated! 

Juan Lopez - Deep Fall
Judith Kuhn - The magic of yellow larches
Panos Laskarakis - Falling earth
Dan Mitler - The Misty Mountain
ChunYang Hou - Mountain In The Mountains
Dan Mitler - Rhapsody in Orange
Dan Mitler - Triplet
Judith Kuhn - Golden Kirkjufellsfoss
Tomasz Rojek - Alpine hotel
Francisco Jimenez - Bruarfoss Islandia
Julio Castro - The Snow Canyon
Greg Buening - Bar Harbor
Jason Blair - Aspne Grove
Jeroen Lagerwerf - Fire vs Wind
Jason Blair - Loveland Pass
Jeff Parker - Triple Falls
Jeroen Lagerwerf - Eye of Dagahra
Christy Mandeville - Stormy Shelf Cloud
Julio Castro - Walking among giants
Karen Horner - Entangled
Craig S. Glass - Colorful Canyon
Jesse Mechling - Badlands
Julio Castro - The Shoe
Emmanuelle Becker - INscape 27
Ted Socci - Desert Golden Hour
Jesse Mechling -Northern Light Arc
Josip Miskovic - Red Island
Markus van Hauten - The highlands
Juan Lopez - Deep Glacier
Karen Horner- Healing Waves
Monika Deviat - Larch Sunrise
Juan Lopez - Desert Fang
Juan Lopez - Factory Butte
Judith Kuhn - Háifoss í Fossá
Judith Kuhn - Skútafoss
Julio Castro - The Eyes
Monika Deviat - Otherworld
Dan Mitler - Cyclical
Sara Markese - Washed Away
Carlo Rondinone - PAESAGGIO CON ULTIME LUCI DEL GIORNO.
Eddy Verloes - Apocalypse now
Stuart Chape - Blue rivers
Ted Socci - Sonoran Golden Hour III
Jeff Parker - St Croix Impression
Dave Cohen - Everglades
Tomasz Rojek - Autumn field
Hsing-Hui Tsai - Tranquil maison in water
Emmanuelle Becker - INscape 24
Jackie Hubbard - Whispers of the Mountain
Lisa Blount - Oxbow Bend
Madison Sosnowski - Ain't Life Grand
Madison Sosnowski - Ain't Life Grand
Markus van Hauten - The cloud
Max Dobens - Arrozal con Viento
Michael Bar-On - The church in the valley
Daniel De Bord - Desert Sanctuary
Mitchell Anolik - Swedish Fishing Huts
Julio Castro - The roots of the earth
Karim Shokair - Wadi Lahmy Sky
Monika Deviat - Frosted
Monika Deviat - Lustre
Patricia Lewis - Autumn Morning At The Mill
Rastislav Stur - High Tatras in Slovakia
Robert Scott - Still Stand
Rose Serrato - Sunset on a hill
Rosemary Miklitsch - Winter in LA
Sara Markese - Forgotten
Ketsiri De Bord - Path to Peace
Stephen Mimms - Treasure Island
Stuart Chape - Norfolk Island ficus trees in the landscape
Ted Socci - Chimborazo
Ted Socci - Sonoran Golden Hour II
Thomas Vijayan - Melting Austfonna Ice Cap
Kylo-Patrick Hart - Icy
CHAO –YANG HUANG - Plum tree
Tomasz Rojek - Church on the hill
Tomasz Rojek - Traelanipa
Varun Chauhan - Mark of Genius
Vicki Provost - Congaree National Park
Vicki Provost - Sunrise over Wesner Bald
Yves Demers Paris - The green lagoon
Alireza Pourkhan - Towers in Cloud
Annemarie Jung - Diamonds and Sand
Bo Bergstrom - White
Buttafoghi Antoine - A few meters from eternity
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