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A Landscape Photography Contest Rewards Unique Approaches to the Genre
The genre of landscape photography usually involves cliffs, gorges, mountainous peaks, and other monumental natural formations captured from the panoramic perspective of a wide-angle lens. The inaugural Natural Landscape Photography Awards’ (NLPA) selection for Photograph of the Year is an unexpected and delightful break from tradition. What at first glance looks like an icy snow cap gleaming underneath a rust-tinged, amorphous moon is actually the tip of a miniature iceberg lying atop a black sand beach in Iceland, decorated with an orange pebble nearby. The photograph’s friendly parody of perhaps the most common compositional silhouette in landscape photography makes for a tongue-in-cheek winning entry in an oftentimes self-serious category. “Landscapes…
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The Winners of a New Landscape Photo Competition That Rewards Realism
The initially-ever Purely natural Landscape Photography Awards has announced the winners of its opposition that encourages the best landscape pictures for individuals who value realism and authenticity. The new landscape images competition — founded by Matt Payne, Tim Parkin, Alex Nail, and Rajesh Jyothiswaran — aims to provide some thing fresh new in the now saturated market of photograph awards. The founders set up a set of rules to avoid the styles of what they explain as deceptive electronic enhancing techniques that they have identified to be commonplace in landscape photography these days. This is anything that the founders have observed across social media feeds in which the traces are…