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The International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards highlight stunning natural scenes.
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Photo of the Year, taken by Blake Randall, shows colorful trees in Alberta, Canada.
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The competition also awarded photographs in categories such as Aerial, Desert, and Seascapes.
The annual International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards has announced the winners of its 2023 competition highlighting the best of the Earth’s natural beauty.
A panel of judges selected winners from 4,035 entries in categories such as Aerial, Desert, and Seascapes as well as Photo of the Year and Photographer of the Year based on a portfolio of four photographs.
Here are the amazing images from this year’s awards.
Ciaran Willmore’s image of water flowing through the Faroe Islands won first place in Seascapes.
In the Desert category, John Seager took first place with a dramatic shot of a salt flat in Argentina.
In the Black and White category, Jim Guerard’s winning photo showed trees reflected in the still waters of George L. Smith State Park in Georgia.
Thomas Vijayan won first place in the Snow and Ice category with his panoramic photograph of melting ice in Svalbard.
Casey McCallister took a picture of a bird on the shore of a lake in Boulder, Colorado, and won in the Aerial category of the competition.
Matt Meisenheimer, who came in third place for Photographer of the Year, submitted landscape photos from various locations.
In El Chalten, Patagonia, he photographed the sun streaming through trees behind snow-capped mountains.
He also photographed a rainbow in the misty forests of Kauai, Hawaii.
His image of the Alaska Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve shows water flowing through colorful bushes.
Andrew Mielzynski won second place in the Photographer of the Year competition.
His photographs focus on the silhouettes of trees in the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
He photographed the reflections of tree trunks in Alberta’s Lake Abraham.
He captured the prism of colors in the region’s crystal-clear waters.
Tony Hewitt was named Photographer of the Year for his collection of photographs taken in Western Australia.
Hewitt took aerial shots of landscapes such as the King River Tidal Plain.
It took on the gold and gray colors of the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
He also sunned the wonderful pastels of Shark Bay.
Isabella Tabacchi’s photograph of landforms created by rivers in Iceland won third place in the International Landscape Photo of the Year category.
Second place went to Peter Meyer with his photograph of wildfires on K’gari, also known as Fraser Island, in Queensland, Australia.
Blake Randall’s photo of colorful trees in Alberta, Canada won the title of International Landscape Photo of the Year.
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