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The International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards highlight stunning natural landscapes.
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Photo of the Year, taken by Blake Randall, shows colorful trees in Alberta, Canada.
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Photographs in categories such as Air, Desert and Seascapes were also awarded in the competition.
The annual International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards have announced the winners of the 2023 competition highlighting the best of the world’s natural beauty.
The panel of judges selected winners from 4,035 entries in categories such as Air, Desert and Seascapes, as well as overall Photo of the Year and Photographer of the Year, based on portfolios of four images.
Here are striking 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 his dramatic shot of a salt flat in Argentina.
Jim Guerard’s winning photo in the Black and White category showed trees reflected in the still waters of Georgia’s George L. Smith State Park.
Thomas Vijayan won first place in the Snow and Ice category with his panoramic photo of melting ice in Svalbard.
Casey McCallister won first place in the Aerial category of the competition by photographing birds on the shores of a lake in Boulder, Colorado.
Matt Meisenheimer, who came third in the Photographer of the Year category, presented landscape photographs from various locations.
He took a photo of the sun filtering through the trees behind snow-covered mountain ranges in El Chalten, Patagonia.
He also photographed a rainbow in the misty forests of Kauai, Hawaii.
View from Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, showing water gushing through colorful bushes.
Andrew Mielzynski placed second in the Photographer of the Year competition.
His photographs focus on the silhouettes of trees in the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
He photographed the wavy reflections of tree trunks in Alberta’s Abraham Lake.
He captured the prism of colors in the clear waters of the region.
Tony Hewitt has been named Photographer of the Year for his collection of images taken in Western Australia.
Hewitt took aerial photographs of landscapes such as the King River Tidal Plain.
Captured the gold and gray colors of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region.
He also photographed the striking pastels of Shark Bay.
Isabella Tabacchi’s photograph of the hollows created by rivers in Iceland took third place in the International Landscape Photograph of the Year category.
Peter Meyer took second place with his photo of the bushfires on K’gari, also known as Fraser Island, in Queensland, Australia.
Blake Randall’s photo of colorful trees in Alberta, Canada earned him the title of International Landscape Photographer of the Year.
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