First Place Winner – Open

Mieke DouglasTitle: Equine LandscapesAbout the Photo:‘Equine Landscapes’, which explores the relationship between the animate and the inanimate. The images do not contain immediately recognisable subjects. They could be landscapes. They could be animals.Equine musculature and contours are depicted as vast landscapes. But on closer examination,

Vigil

Cam GarnerTitle: VigilAbout the Photo:Coastal Japan

TRANSCENDENTAL TRANQUILITY

Dirk PoortersTitle: Transcendental TranquilityAbout the Photo:With Transcendental Tranquility I take distance from time and strip the observation to three elements; water, horizon, light. What we then see is more than just the observation. By using alienation techniques, repetitiveness, and uncontrolled motion blur, I deliberately create

The Beauty of the Night

Julio Castro PardoTitle: The Beauty of the NightAbout the Photo:With this photo series I want to show the beauty of some of the best photographic landscapes in the world

The Barcode Metropolis

Alex YeungTitle: The Barcode MetropolisAbout the Photo:The neon City lights of Hong Kong from the peak mountain are always a sight to behold. I wanted to create an abstraction of the lights by moving my camera at a slow shutter speed.

Stairway to heaven

Klaus EndresTitle: Stairway to heavenAbout the Photo:Illuminated stairway on the backside of the church in my hometown

SOHO

Yancho SabevTitle: SOHOAbout the Photo:SOHO is an office building in Tokyo providing roof to few hundred smal-sized companies. Each one of the front doors is painted in a lovely eye-pleasing color. The silhouette of a young office worker brings to live this surreal place.

Nocturno

Manuel Hernández GuerreroTitle: NocturnoAbout the Photo:While searching for inspiration during one of my nighttime walks, I came across this scene of peace and balance that I couldn't avoid capturing with my camera.

Moon Mills

Kirk DeckerTitle: Moon MillsAbout the Photo:Windmills photographed as the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Aside from basic darkroom style adjustments image is unmanipulated.