{"id":245957,"date":"2025-10-28T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:13:17","slug":"the-breathtaking-winners-of-the-2025-international-pano-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245957\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breathtaking Winners of the 2025 International Pano Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>\u2018Last Fireworks\u2019 by Alex Wides. \u2018As the sun went down, the sky literally exploded. Layer after layer of clouds lit up, painting the desert with fire and gold. Using my Sony A7 IV with a fisheye lens on a tripod, I captured a full multi-exposure sequence at f\/8 and ISO 100, rotating carefully around the nodal point to create a seamless 360\u00b0 panorama.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The winners of the 2025 and 16th Epson International Pano awards<\/a> have been announced, and Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) has been crowned the 2025 Open Photographer of the Year, as well as heading the Nature\/Landscape category. <\/p>\n

Wides is an Italian fine-art landscape photographer known worldwide for his pioneering work in extreme panoramic landscapes. Through years of experimentation and fieldwork, he developed a unique panoramic technique capable of merging multiple perspectives into a single immersive vision.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>\u2018Jackpot\u2019 by Alex Wides. \u2018After finishing tours on Senja Island, [Norway], I hiked up to the shoot location hoping for a good weather window. When I opened the tent on the last try, I hit the jackpot: the sky exploded in a spectacular half hour of Northern Lights. This was a perfect reward after years of waiting.\u2019 \"Snow-covered<\/a>\u2018Mann\u2019 by Alex Wides. \u2018For years I\u2019ve been fascinated by the way lunar light reveals every texture of the snow, every pattern shaped by the wind. To bring this vision to life, I worked through the night at -15\u00b0C, using a Sony A6600 with a fisheye lens at 10mm, f\/5.6, 10 seconds, ISO 1250, building a 270\u00b0 panorama in the freezing wind.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Entrants competed for thousands of dollars in cash and hardware prizes from main sponsors Epson Australia and Epson Southeast Asia. Other key awards include the Epson Digital Art Prize, which is decided by the executive team at Epson Australia from the top 50 entries in the Open competition. The winner was Daniel Vi\u00f1\u00e9 from Spain. <\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>The winner of The Epson Digital Art Prize 2025. Daniel Vi\u00f1\u00e9. \u2018In this coastal village of Vietnam, survival is woven in silence. These women, working in morning shade and salt-laden air, are the unseen guardians of sustenance. The nets they mend are not mere tools, but lifelines binding sea and community together.\u2019
\n \"A<\/a>Dniel Vi\u00f1\u00e9 also won the RAW Planet Award for this image, \u2018Cathedral of Shadows, Hanksville, Utah\u2019. He says: \u2018Witnessing a fleeting alignment of light and form revealing the sun blazing on one side, the vast shadow stretching on the other, and the raw, timeless silence of Utah in between.\u2019 <\/p>\n

A press release notes that this year there was a prevalence of ultra-wide panoramas and increasingly innovative perspectives, including very low angles, very close-up subjects, and aerial photography. There were also far more shots of the Northern Lights than usual, coinciding with the 11-year solar cycle maximum.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>The Pano Awards Southeast Asia Open Photographer of the Year 2025 won by William Chua from Singapore. \u2018I have witnessed the wildebeest migration countless times and it never ceases to amaze me. For this image, what caught my attention was a lone wildebeest turning back amidst the frenzy. In that instant, I knew that was the shot I wanted.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The Amateur Photographer of the Year, and first place in the Nature\/Landscape category went to Kevin Nyun, USA, for his entries entitled The Altiplano Landscape, Frozen and Remnants.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>\u2018The Altiplano Landscape shot in the Bolivia highland\u2019 by Kevin Nyun. \"Snow-covered<\/a>\u2018Frozen\u2019 by Kevin Nyun. \"A<\/a>\u2018Remnants\u2019 by Kevin Nyun.
\n \"A<\/a>The VR\/360 winner is Christoph Simon from Germany for his panorama taken on a freezing March night in the high-temperature region of Hverar\u00f6nd in northern Iceland. \"A<\/a>Curator of The Pano Awards is David Evans and the Curator\u2019s Award went to Chris Byrne from the USA for \u2018ELYSIUM.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pano Awards entries are always exceptional and this year the creativity has truly been taken to the next level,\u201d says Epson Australia MD, Craig Heckenberg. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see so many more wide and ultra-wide panoramic shots this year, a format close to our hearts, as they are able to be truly and properly represented by Epson wide-format photo printers.\u201d <\/p>\n

To view all the winning and top image galleries, go to the 2025 winners\u2019 gallery<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Last Fireworks\u2019 by Alex Wides. \u2018As the sun went down, the sky literally exploded. Layer after layer of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,115299,115300,115301,2238],"class_list":{"0":"post-245957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-epsonpanoawards","16":"tag-panoramaphotography","17":"tag-panoramicphoto","18":"tag-photocompetition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}