Winners Of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards » Explorersweb

The prestigious Natural Landscape Photography Awards has revealed its 2025 winners. The fifth annual contest acquired over 11,000 entries from greater than 1,100 photographers in 64 international locations. Australian photographer Joy Kachina took the highest award and has been named Photographer of the Year.

 

Kachina’s portfolio showcases the landscapes and forests of Tasmania. The Photographer of the Year a part of the competition is given for a group of associated work, not only a single picture. A panorama photographer by commerce, Kachina was amazed to listen to she had taken the highest prize.

“This is such a wonderful surprise!” she mentioned. “The imagery in this competition wonderfully highlights the real experiences we have in nature.”

 

No digital manipulation

All entries needed to be RAW recordsdata and had been examined to make sure that there was no digital manipulation. That meant that of the 11,023 submissions, solely 3,688 made it via the screening rounds. From these, the highest 100 had been chosen and handed on to the judges.

In runner-up place for Photographer of the Year was Lukas Furlan, adopted by Matt Jackisch in third, Scott Oller in fourth, Vojtech Schmidt in fifth, and Magnus Reneflot in sixth.

 

Margrit Schwarz was awarded Photograph of the Year for a picture she captured throughout a 12-day river journey within the Grand Canyon.

“What moved me most were the hidden abstract forms shaped by stone, water, and time,” she mentioned.

 

Luis Vilarino gained the Grand Landscape class, with Samuel Markham as runner-up and Gunar Streu in third place.

“This award gives me the opportunity to share…the same feelings I enjoyed in that magical moment,” commented Vilarino. “I hope you feel the cold biting your skin among gigantic blocks of ice in the depths of winter.”

 

Other class winners embody David Shaw within the Intimate Landscape class, Ilan Shacham for Abstract Landscape, Lizzie Shepherd in Seascapes, Spencer Cox for Rocks and Geology, Grégoire Pansu for Tropical Landscapes, Kenny Muir for Woodlands, Louis Ouimet for Desert Landscapes, and Vojtech Schmidt for Frozen Worlds.

 

The NLPA additionally acknowledged an excellent photographic challenge: Hanneke Van Camp for Sápmi – Living Landscapes, a sequence of photos taken in Sámpi, the Sami homeland in Northern Europe.

A full gallery of the successful photos may be discovered on the competition website.