Winning photo of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition
The 5th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition has come to a close, with stunning winning images capturing everything from ethereal mountains to dark forests.
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| Canadian photographer Adam Gibbs won the Photographer of the Year award (a prize based on a folio of at least four images). Adam won the award for his beautiful, eerie, and magical photos of forests around Vancouver Island. |
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| American photographer Paul Marcellini won the Photo of the Year award. Paul entered the competition with a single artistic image of tree trunks reflected in a pond, creating an optical illusion that makes it difficult to tell what is real and what is not. |
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| There are also many impressive and beautiful photos participating in this contest, attracting the attention of the judges. In the picture is a photo of a giant storm moving across the plains of Oklahoma, USA, by British photographer John Finney. |
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| Gabor Dvornik, a photographer from Hungary, captured this photo of a misty lake on the outskirts of Szigliget, a small village in western Hungary. |
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| American photographer Chung Hu captured the undulating mountain ranges in the clouds from the air as he explored the area around Fjallsarlon in Iceland. |
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| Another photo also captures the Icelandic landscape from the air, with a glacier winding like a perfect tree trunk, by American photographer Chris Byrne. |
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| Lazar Ovidiu captured this stunning artistic image, with tree trunks reflecting an optical illusion at Cuejdel in Romania, the country's largest natural lake. |
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| This photo by Chinese photographer Xiao Zhu captures the Monte Fitz Roy mountain range in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile, along with the symmetrical beauty of the majestic sky. |
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| American photographer David Swindler took this aerial photo of the rugged mountainous area of the Arizona Memorial. The entire area covers 117,945 hectares and is located at an altitude of 945-1,981 m above sea level. |
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| Thorsten Scheuermann, an American citizen, traveled to the far southern states to capture this photo of tree trunks reflected in a still pond. |
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| Another photo by Thorsten Scheuermann captures a tree trunk with long branches that look like a strange beard, blurred in the mist. |
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| Italian photographer Nicola Pirondini has a special angle focusing on the unusual rock formations in the Calafuria nature reserve in Tuscany, Italy. |
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| Sunset sky over romantic purple lavender fields in Valensole, France, captured by American photographer Peter Lik. |
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| A wave rippling off the southeastern coast of Australia, captured perfectly and poignantly by Australian photographer Warren Keelan. |
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| These strangely shaped "monsters" were captured by Australian photographer Ignacio Palacios. They are actually tree trunks frozen in ice and snow in Lapland, Finland. |
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| Edward Hyde from England captured this stormy day at Newhaven harbour in East Sussex, England. You can see the powerful waves crashing against the barricades, creating a beautiful dragon head shape. |
