Natural panorama pictures awards 2025 highlights

I don’t envy the judges of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards. Now in its fifth 12 months, it is attracting some outrageously gifted lenspeople, and I’m having a tough time even narrowing down which of the six shortlisted photographers of the 12 months for 2025 I like finest.

The poor souls on this 12 months’s panel needed to undergo greater than 11,000 photos despatched in by 1,134 photographers from around the globe, and slim that right down to 130 prize-winning entries. They’re fortunate I wasn’t a part of their hours-long closing Zoom choice session, as a result of I can’t be reasoned with on video calls – particularly in the case of choosing favorites.

Tasmanian panorama photographer Joy Kachina captures textures and shapes in gorgeous inventive compositions, and her work has earned her the title of Photographer of the 12 months and a US$5,000 money prize.

Joy Kachina

Heck, even the runners up for this title have excellent work to be equally pleased with – from Vancouver, Canada-based Matt Jackisch’s icescapes (our hero picture on the high) to Magnus Reneflot’s dreamlike drone pictures (under).

Magnus Reneflot

Photograph of the 12 months goes to Margrit Schwarz, who captured an otherworldly perspective of rock formations. “This image is a synthesis of my emotions and experiences during a twelve-day river trip deep inside the Grand Canyon,” Schwarz famous. “What moved me most were the hidden abstract forms shaped by stone, water, and time – details that spoke with as much power and mystery as the immense landscapes above.”

Margrit Schwarz

What’s fascinating about this competitors is there are uniquely particular standards for its varied classes, together with Grand Landscape (‘These photos nearly at all times embrace a sky and a foreground, have a number of topics, and are usually captured at a wider angle’), and In Your Backyard (‘Images captured inside 25 miles of house’).

Joshua Cripps

I’ve included a few of my favorites from your entire competitors throughout its classes in our gallery. Head over to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards website to see all the winners and runners-up, and pre-order a hardback book with the highest entries at $70.

You can even feast your eyes on our different current nature photograph galleries from 2025, together with Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the Audubon Photography Awards, and the World Nature Photography Awards.