A man has revealed how a stunning landscape photo he snapped contains an unlikely background detail.
According to the Mirror, Gavin Best was walking with friends on Cavehill in Belfast one New Year’s Eve, when he shot the impressive image.
Despite his lack of prep and set up, the 43-year-old captured a perfect
‘Mountains hold an air of mystery and intrigue.’
So says Arpan Das, whose incredible photographs of mountains capture the essence of their mystery in spellbinding fashion.
Taken everywhere from the Canadian Rockies to the Swiss Alps, these shots are proving a hit on Instagram, earning Das nearly 40,000 followers to date. The Indian photographer, who is an astrophysicist and data scientist by trade, reveals his interest in mountain photography began when he went on a hiking excursion in the Italian
Prepare to fall under Scotland’s spell, courtesy of these spellbinding pictures.
These remarkable photographs are all winners and finalists in the 2023 Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year awards, an annual contest that celebrates the scenery of Scotland in all its glen-filled glory.
This year, the contest saw more than 4,000 images submitted by both Scottish photographers and talent from further afield – everywhere from Australia to the Netherlands. An Edinburgh street blanketed in snow, a thundering waterfall on the
When it comes to igniting wanderlust, there’s nothing quite as incendiary as these landscape photographs.
They are the winning and commended images in the highly prestigious International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022 competition, now in its 9th year.
The judges sifted through over 3,800 entries from around the world to choose the shortlisted and medal-winning pictures, with the Chairman of the Judges, Peter Eastway, revealing that it was a labour of love.
He said: ‘We love putting the International
This is landscape photography at its most unfiltered.
These breathtaking pictures are prizewinners in the 2022 Natural Landscape Photography Awards (NLPA), an annual contest that honours photographers who ‘value realism and authenticity in their work’.
The contest has strict rules in place to ‘avoid the types of deceptive digital editing techniques that have become commonplace in landscape photography’. Simple post-processing techniques are permitted, but extreme photoshopping tricks – such as introducing or removing elements like trees or birds – aren’t
Die Siegerbilder der zweiten jährlichen Natural Landscape Photography Awards wurden gerade bekannt gegeben. Der Wettbewerb wurde gestartet, um „die allerbeste Landschaftsfotografie von Digital- und Filmfotografen zu fördern, die Wert auf Realismus und Authentizität in ihrer Arbeit legen“, wobei Regeln aufgestellt wurden, um irreführende Bearbeitungstechniken zu verhindern. In diesem Jahr haben sich mehr als 1.100 Fotografen aus 55 Ländern angemeldet. Die Organisatoren des Wettbewerbs waren wieder einmal so freundlich, die Gewinner und Zweitplatzierten zu teilen.
Look through the pictures that awed the judges in the 2022 Landscape Photographer Of The Year awards and you’ll see the UK at its most earth-shatteringly beautiful.
The standard is sky-high year after year, and this year is no exception, with awe-inspiring photographs that celebrate ‘all that is great about the British landscape’ receiving accolades. ‘The competition showcases the work of many talented photographers, inspiring visitors to experience the joys of the British landscape first hand,’ says the awards.
Surpassing
„Das Seltsame bringt etwas in das Vertraute, das normalerweise dahinter liegt“, schrieb der Kulturtheoretiker und Kritiker Mark Fisher 2017 in seinem Buch: Das Seltsame und das Unheimliche. Seltsame Phänomene lenken unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf die Weitläufigkeit der Zeit und unsere eigene Bedeutungslosigkeit. Denken Sie an HP Lovecrafts uraltes Meeresungeheuer in „The Call of Cthulhu“, das auf unwahrscheinliche Weise in die Gegenwart auftaucht. Denken Sie an den atmenden „Turm“ von Jeff VanderMeer Vernichtung, mit seinen Lebensformen, die sich dem wissenschaftlichen
TOD DURCH LANDSCHAFT
Von Elvia Wilk
Landschaften laden zum Nachdenken ein. Natürlich oder gebaut, unheimlich oder spektakulär, es sind Räume, in die wir uns projizieren können. Was wäre, wenn ich dort im Wald leben würde? Was für ein Mensch wäre ich, wenn ich an dieser Küste leben würde? Was wäre, wenn ich von dieser Klippe gesprungen wäre?
Elvia Wilks „Tod durch Landschaft” inspiriert die gleiche Art von reichen Gefühlen. Dieses Buch mit Essays – unterteilt in vier Abschnitte: „Plants“,
Landscape photography reminds us that we really do live in a wonderful world.
And for eye-catching aide-memoires, you’ll be hard-pushed to beat the winning and short-listed entries for The 8th International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest.
The judges chose from 4,504 entries from around the world, with pictures of a magical wood in Devon, crashing waves in west-coast America and an Icelandic volcano appearing in the shortlist of 101 photographs.
Reigning supreme in the portfolio category was Turkish photographer
