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A scene like from a science fiction movie: gnarled branches reach into the night sky. A strip of northern lights colors the horizon green. Photographer Kelvin Yuen from Hong Kong has secured the title of "Landscape Photographer of the Year" with his portfolio. This photograph was taken in Tromsø, Norway. It was one of about 3800 entries in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

No. 2
The sun rises, shadows stretch over the hills. Chance Allred from the USA took this photo in Hanksville, Utah. Canyons and rocks characterize the area. The town is located on the Colorado Plateau west of the Rocky Mountains.

No. 3
Gheorghe Popa has succeeded in creating an abstract aesthetic with this aerial view of Lake Cuejdelsee in Romania: The tree tops bore towards the sky towards the viewer. The light-dark contrast lends the picture a gloomy atmosphere.

No. 4
The sun peeps out between cloud cover and rising rock. Joshua Snow captured this motif in Oregon, USA. The photographer was awarded second place for his portfolio.

No. 5
As if painted, the Ibex dunes in California's Death Valley extend upwards. The ochre stands out strongly against the blue of the sky, the wind has drawn lines in the sand. The Canadian Evan Will has managed to immortalize this harmonious scene photographically.

No. 6
Silhouette-like trees rise into the sky. Stars light up the sky above the Namib-Naukluft National Park in the west of Namibia. Isabella Tabacchi from Italy took this picture, which makes you dream.

No. 7
Foam sweeps through the air, light shimmers through the breaking wave. Photographer Gergo Rugli named the photograph after the Greek sea god "Nereus".

No. 8
Snow-covered arches draw a softly appearing hilly landscape. A single conifer tree breaks through the harmonious form. The Jasper National Park is located in Alberta, Canada. There Vikki Macleod captured the winter idyll with her camera.

No. 9
Dry ground and bright sky: This photo from Death Valley was made by Ben Horne. The combination of striking structures and soft tones sets the landscape in scene.

No. 10
Mieke Boynton created an impressively ghostly recording in the Australian Buckland Valley. The photo shows a fog-covered forest. Brown leaves cover the ground. The symmetry of the trees gives the motif something mysterious.

No. 11
A plant blooms on cracked earth. The bird's-eye view creates an extraordinary aesthetic in this photograph. Shashank Khanna took this photo in Fremont, California.

No. 12
Birches rise meagerly from the water. They are reflected on the water. The photographer Gianluca Gianferrari took this picture in Italy when the Po overflowed its banks in November 2019.

No. 13
David Swindler from the USA shot this atmospheric combination of lightning and rainbow in southern Arizona. He captured the scene with his camera just before a thunderstorm.

No. 14
A storm rages over meadows, lightning flashes from the gray: Frédéric Couzinier succeeded in capturing a spectacular natural spectacle. The photo was taken in Winona in the US state of Kansas.

No. 15
A backdrop of moss-covered earth, trees and branches. The scene in the English Dartmoor, photographed by Nick Green, seems almost bewitched. The hilly landscape lies in the English county of Devon.

No. 16
Sunbeams let the fine fog cover shimmer. Underneath, a river meanders through dense forest. The Adirondacks Mountains extend in the north of the state of New York. There Nikhil Nagane photographed this panorama.

No. 17
For Klaus Axelsen, photography means becoming aware of light, forms and textures of a landscape. His work bears the title "Artwork of nature II" and was created in Mo i Rana, Norway, a town near the Arctic Circle.

No. 18
Cacti with red flowers sprout in front of a mountain scenery. A double rainbow runs through rain clouds in the background. Wayne Suggs captured this natural spectacle in the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. The protected area is located in New Mexico, USA.

No. 19
Fog veils a hilly and mountainous landscape. This panorama is called "Land of Dreaming". The photographer Nick Schmid took the picture in Hirzel in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

No. 20
An iceberg rises out of the water and is reflected on the surface. In Scoresbysund in Greenland, Christopher Anderson pulled out his camera and captured the impressive motif.

No. 21
Many people know the reddish rock formations from pictures: The Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, is part of the Unesco World Natural Heritage. Tony Hewitt was there and captured this motif.

No. 22
Waves tumble over rocks and you are in a foaming din. Ivan Miljak photographed the dynamic scenery on Tenerife and called it "El Bufadero".

No. 23
For the best individual photograph, another main prize will be awarded. This year the title goes to Kai Hornung from Germany. His winning photo shows how a stream of water flows through the Icelandic highlands. The structures of the hills and the intense play of colors make the surroundings look like they are from a foreign planet.

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Amazing pictures of sights all around the world.

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Amazing pictures of sights all around the world.
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Re: Amazing pictures of sights all around the world.

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Amazing pictures of sights all around the world.
ALSO-Look to the right and click on-This year and All years.

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At least this Hanuman langur made it onto the saddle. Only the legs are probably too short to pedal properly. Yevhen Samuchenko from Ukraine took this snapshot of three really amusing biker monkeys in Hamdi, India - and submitted it to the "Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021" photo competition.

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Particularly interesting: the "Camera Trap" category, in which this picture of a Eurasian lynx, among others, was honored. It looks as if the photographer had come very close to the animal. Vladimir Cech Jr. had positioned his equipment for the picture in the middle of nature - and was able to photograph the impressive land predator without being present.

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Wem dieser Seelöwe die Sterne vom Meeresboden holt, weiß sicher nur das Tier selbst. Und mit Glück noch Celia Kujala. Die US-Amerikanerin hat sich in der Unterwasserfotografie inzwischen einen Namen gemacht und mit ihren Aufnahmen aus der Tiefe schon viele Preise gewonnen. »Ich fühlte mich immer schon hingezogen zum Ozean«, sagt Kujala. Im Rahmen ihres Fotoprojekts »Seal Peace« hat sie sich Flossenfüßer auf der ganzen Welt aus der Nähe angesehen.

4/17
Richard Condlyffe managed to get this shot of two dolphins, or rather, of their razor-sharp silhouettes. "The two look like they're talking to each other," says Condlyffe, "and like they're looking at something that's outside the frame."

5/17
Skeleton or spaceship? No, an extremely lively manta ray. This photo by Grant Thomas won in the "Underwater" category. He was lying flat on the sandy seabed for the picture, the photographer says. The manta ray was swimming in loops around him, busy consuming plankton, he says. The shot was taken in the Maldives, where you can dive with the majestic animals at night.

6/17
Gold, Silber, Grasbüschel: Diese Felder in Südmähren hat der Tscheche Zdeněk Vošický fotografiert.

7/17
Bath in the leaf: Mousam Ray caught this nectar bird doing what you would probably call wellness if you were a human. "It's as if nature has created a tub for the female bird," Ray says. In India, fall days are hot and humid, nights pleasant. In the morning, tiny puddles of water can sometimes be found in flower petals, according to Ray. And that's exactly what the star of this photo was refreshing in.

8/17
Also entered in the Animal Behavior category was this photo. Two wild dogs are playing on bone-dry ground in South Africa - you can almost feel the heat as you look at them, almost breathe the dust. "I watched them for five weeks," says photographer Bence Máté.

9/17
The winner in the Animal Behavior category was Thomas Vijayan with this photo of an orangutan: During his stay in Borneo, he put up with hours of waiting in treetops - and his patience paid off. "For this photo, I picked a tree in the water and climbed up," Vijayan says. "The water served as a mirror for me, reflecting the sky and the tree's leaves." The side effect: It looks like the monkey is climbing backwards.

10/17
You can't hear the noise. But in summer, there's a lot going on on the beaches near Baltray, north of Dublin. Marek Biegalski took aerial photos there of breeding Little Terns, a very small seabird that is considered endangered in Germany. In Ireland, sections of beach are closed during the breeding season to protect the species.

11/17
From the small island of Eigg, one of the Scottish Inner Hebrides, you can see the mountains of the neighboring island of Rùm: mystically beautiful in the sunset. "I exposed for 90 seconds to get as many reflections as possible," says Luigi Ruoppolo.
You can't hear the noise. But in summer, there's a lot going on on the beaches near Baltray, north of Dublin. Marek Biegalski took aerial photos there of breeding Little Terns, a very small seabird that is considered endangered in Germany. In Ireland, sections of beach are closed during the breeding season to protect the species.

12/17
A mountain lake in the north of Sweden, purple-yellow flickering in the sky: Marcus Westberg was able to enjoy these auroras live and then capture them on photos.

13/17
Sometimes it carries water, sometimes it doesn't: The Tsauchab River in Namibia is totally dry in this photo. A dead camel thorn tree casts its shadow on the ground, "as if it were stretching a hand toward the river," says Jay Roode. He won first place in the "Landscape" category with this picture.
You can't hear the noise. But in summer, there's a lot going on on the beaches near Baltray, north of Dublin. Marek Biegalski took aerial photos there of breeding Little Terns, a very small seabird that is considered endangered in Germany. In Ireland, sections of beach are closed during the breeding season to protect the species.

14/17
Attack on the precipice: Raphael Schenker discovered these two mountain goats while hiking in Switzerland. The animals seemed to be practicing fighting - they obviously didn't care about the panorama.

15/17
No one has to teach this crocodile how to defeat its opponent. The fish looks a bit surprised, even though this is certainly more of a coincidence, which Johan Wandrag skillfully immortalized in a photo.

16/17
The British photographer Thomas Easterbrook is just 13 years old and took this impressive picture of a peregrine falcon attacking a flock of starlings. He was awarded the title "Young Nature TTL Photographer of the Year" in the photo competition.

17/17
Late afternoon in Spitsbergen, time for a nap. Dennis Stogsdill had been watching this polar bear for some time when the animal lay down and closed its eyes. "This sky is just the perfect background for a tired bear," the photographer thinks.

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Stunning images of space

Post by Webscout » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:30 am

Stunning images of space abound in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
Photographers hail from around the world, some with ample experience and some who are young

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