{"id":151888,"date":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","slug":"winners-of-the-2025-natural-landscape-photography-awards-explorersweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151888\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners Of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards \u00bb Explorersweb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prestigious Natural Landscape Photography Awards has revealed its 2025 winners. The fifth annual contest received over 11,000 entries from more than 1,100 photographers in 64 countries. Australian photographer Joy Kachina took the top award and has been named Photographer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.10.22-e1758064559520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Joy Kachina<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kachina\u2019s portfolio showcases the landscapes and forests of Tasmania. The Photographer of the Year part of the contest is given for a collection of related work, not just a single image. A landscape photographer by trade, Kachina was amazed to hear she had taken the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is such a wonderful surprise!\u201d she said. \u201cThe imagery in this competition wonderfully highlights the real experiences we have in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.10.58-e1758064570319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lukas Furlan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No digital manipulation<\/p>\n<p>All entries had to be RAW files and were examined to ensure that there was no digital manipulation.\u00a0That meant that of the 11,023 submissions, only 3,688 made it through the screening rounds. From those, the top 100 were selected and passed on to the judges.<\/p>\n<p>In runner-up position for Photographer of the Year was Lukas Furlan, followed by Matt Jackisch in third, Scott Oller in fourth, Vojtech Schmidt in fifth, and Magnus Reneflot in sixth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108385\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.11.17-e1758064582190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of the Year. Photo: Margrit Schwarz<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Margrit Schwarz was awarded Photograph of the Year for an image she captured during a 12-day river trip in the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat moved me most were the hidden abstract forms shaped by stone, water, and time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.11.33-e1758064592688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Luis Vilarino<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luis Vilarino won the Grand Landscape category, with Samuel Markham as runner-up and Gunar Streu in third place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award gives me the opportunity to share\u2026the same feelings I enjoyed in that magical moment,\u201d commented Vilarino. \u201cI hope you feel the cold biting your skin among gigantic blocks of ice in the depths of winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.12.16-e1758064603179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vojtech Schmidt<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other category winners include David Shaw in the Intimate Landscape category, Ilan Shacham for Abstract Landscape, Lizzie Shepherd in Seascapes, Spencer Cox for Rocks and Geology, Gr\u00e9goire Pansu for Tropical Landscapes, Kenny Muir for Woodlands, Louis Ouimet for Desert Landscapes, and Vojtech Schmidt for Frozen Worlds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-00.12.39-e1758064613773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hanneke Van Camp<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NLPA also recognized an outstanding photographic project: Hanneke Van Camp for S\u00e1pmi \u2013 Living Landscapes, a series of images taken in S\u00e1mpi, the Sami homeland in Northern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>A full gallery of the winning images can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/naturallandscapeawards.com\/2025-competition-results-gallery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">competition website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prestigious Natural Landscape Photography Awards has revealed its 2025 winners. 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