The Natural Landscape Photography Awards Shuns AI and Composites

While some photograph competitions enable for liberal picture manipulation and even synthetic intelligence, there’s none of that within the Natural Landscape Photography Awards which has simply introduced its winners.

The guidelines are clear: there will be no generative AI, no compositing of various pictures, and RAW recordsdata are checked by judges to make sure authenticity. The competitors is designed to advertise photographers seeking to work throughout the constraints of the pure panorama and conventional bounds of pictures.

Both movie and digital shooters are allowed to enter. The winner takes dwelling $5,000 whereas class winners and runners-up are additionally awarded. This 12 months’s contest obtained over 11,000 entries from greater than 1,100 photographers in 64 international locations.

Joy Kachina took dwelling the highest accolade of Photographer of the Year for her portfolio that paperwork the enchanting nature of Tasmania, Australia.

Photograph of the Year went to Margrit Schwarz for her picture taken throughout a 12-day raft journey on the Colorado River. She captured historical layers of stone, “shaped by time and water into abstract forms.”

Grand Landscape Category

Abstract Landscapes Category

Ilan Shacham gained the summary class along with his photograph of the Dead Sea, a lake with about 10 occasions extra saline than the ocean. The ‘pearls’ within the pictures are hardened balls of salt as ridges of salt run randomly by the image.

Intimate Landscapes Category

Project of the Year Category

Project of the 12 months went to Hanneke Van Camp for her frozen landscapes of Sápmi, the cultural area historically inhabited by the Sámi individuals.

“It has become my part-time home,” says Van Camp. “A place of incredible beauty but also of fragility, facing threats from climate change and exploitation. Through this project, I hope to share its unique diversity and invite others to reconnect with nature and the values it carries.”

To see all the contestants and for details about subsequent 12 months’s competitors, head to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards website.