Inaugural Landscape Photography World Awards
It’s thrilling to announce that the winners have been selected by the judging panel for this year’s Landscape Photography Awards! Congratulations to Franka Galber whose image took out both the top award in the landscape category as well as the overall competition!
Prizes
Overall Winner
Runner-up
Third place
Category winners
Category runner-up
Category winners
$5,000 AUD
$2,500 AUD
$1,000 AUD
$500 AUD
$250 AUD
$125 AUD
All prize winners will receive a copy of the book produced at the end of the awards featuring the top images in the competition.
Judges
Grant Swinbourne is a photographer from Sydney, Australia. He produces fine art images from his travels around the world including seascapes, landscapes and travel images.
Known mostly for his beautiful seascapes & cityscapes from along the East coast of Australia, he’s also amassed a large portfolio of travel photography from many countries. Grant has had images published in a number of magazines including Viajes National Geographic, the Spanish language travel magazine for National Geographic.
In 2021 he was the driving force behind the establishment of the Aussie Artists Collective (https://twitter.com/AussieArtistCol) a collaborative team bringing together over 70 Australian artists displaying their work in two virtual galleries.
Grant now runs educational workshops around the Sydney area to help beginners and intermediate photographers to improve their skills and learn new techniques for creating artistic landscapes and seascapes.
You can find all Grant’s work and links to his galleries here: https://linktr.ee/grantswinbourne
Grant Swinbourne
Deb Clark
Deb is a professional landscape photographer based in New Zealand.
Inspired by nature, she is happiest outside capturing moments in time. First light of morning and last light of the dying day are her favourite times to shoot. Specialising in, and most known for Long Exposure Photography she is always searching out pristine reflections and dramatic clouds.
Deb has been read about in LENS Magazine, InSpades, Nomadict, Nisi Fine Art Photography and in various other publications. She is supported by Nikon NZ, and is a featured photographer.
She is most proud of her work selected for the "New Zealand Iconic Futures' exhibition, that portrays the affect of climate change on coastal regions.
Deb is a Nikon NZ Z Creator, Nisi and Fstop Gear Ambassador. She has worked with multiple destinations showcasing New Zealand, on multiple campaigns for Adobe, provided a gallery of images for the NZ Defense Force in Belgium, and sends her purchased images all over New Zealand and the World.
She assists with workshops, writes for interviews, product reviews, presentations and other forms of media and is a popular guest on podcasts.
Kieran Stone
Kieran’s photography career started when he moved to London a while back and started to document his travels around Europe. On his return to Melbourne as a biomedical scientist, he started to get more serious about progressing his photography and spent a lot of time working on his brand and skills and promoting his work via social media.
If he could sum up his life in one word it would be “Curiosity” Ever since he was a child he has been interested in the world around him and the Universe as a whole. Wondering at the millions of years that went into creating coastline or mountains was much more appealing to him than the ever changing focus of media and entertainment.
This wonder and curiosity combined with wanderlust to see all that he could has brought with it an inevitable desire to capture the world through photography. The more places he visited, the more cultures he came to understand, drove his passion to create images that portrayed the splendour and the raw emotion it evoked.
Kieran’s photography is an expression of his thoughts and philosophies. It is a description and physical representation of his life as a passage through time and development as a Human. He endeavours to never stop learning, whether it is in photography, science, his own personality, or existence as a whole.
Viktoria Haack
Viktoria is originally from the UK and a resident of BC, Canada since 2007. She is heavily influenced by the beautiful environment that surrounds her.
She has a background in fine art and anthropology. This combined with her love for the natural world, brings a unique perspective to her photography. Her ethos is to tread lightly; observe and document the subtle visual story within whichever photographic genre she is working.
Viktoria’s work covers the fields of landscape, portrait, wedding, event, promotion, editorial, stock and photography education. The diversity of her work allows cross pollination of skills and experiences between these different photographic genres and allows her to stay creative and excited about the projects she undertakes. She loves nothing more than sharing her passion for photography in an educational role – whether that is over a cup of coffee and a chat or on a multi-day back country workshop.
Viktoria is proud to be a Nikon Canada Ambassador and Global Ambassador for Lowepro Bags.
She has been published by numerous media outlets around the globe, both online and in print and is a regular contributor to Photo News Magazine.
William Patino
Will Patino is a full time landscape photographer, living in the South Island of New Zealand. Over the years he has worked with companies like Apple, Sony and Samsung but is most at home teaching on his photography workshops. Will is passionate about capturing the lesser known wilderness New Zealand and is drawn to evocative, atmospheric scenes.
Photography came into William’s life around 2011 and it has helped him see the world differently, giving him a newfound appreciation for nature and the many intricacies that many overlook and perhaps take for granted. William’s work is based around a deep reverence and awe of nature and the creator, and it’s this that he tries to express through his images. His love for dramatic light and atmosphere is a constant inspiration, and he enjoys the endless pursuit of these elusive moments and the freedom found within.
Most at home in his adopted backyard of Fiordland, and its mountainous landscapes, William truly enjoys rugged coastal scenes and being amidst the infinite greens of the rainforests. Exploration and weather plays a huge role in his photography and he draws inspiration from exploring the unknown and those fleeting, spontaneous moments in nature.
What format should the entries be in?
All entries must be made in the following format
Maximum of 4Mb
2048 pixels along the long edge
Saved as JPEG
No borders or watermarks
Image names must follow this format
<CATEGORYCODE>-<FIRSTNAME>-<SURNAME>-<YOUR ORDER No>-<IMAGE No>
CATEGORYCODE is
L - LANDSCAPES
C - CITYSCAPES
S - SEASCAPES
i.e. L-Grant-Swinbourne-01234-01
Are composite images allowed?
Composite images are only permitted for the purpose of Blending (exposure/time, where the images are all taken on the same day) & Focus stacking. Sky replacements or added elements from other images/scenes, such as flocks of birds/clouds that were not captured at the time of the original shoot are not permitted.
How are the categories defined?
Landscape
Landscape images are predominantly representations of nature and natural scenes. Man made objects, animals or people shouldn’t be the focus of the image. If you do have a manmade object or person it should be there to help show off the landscape, (for example showing scale).
Cityscape
Cityscapes images are predominantly representations of urban or manmade landscapes. People, vehicles or animals should not be the focus of the image but may be included to help show off the landscape, (for example showing scale).
Seascape
Seascape images are predominantly representations of sea or lakes where the water is the main feature of the image. People, boats/ships and animals should not be the main focus of the image but may be included to help show off the seascape, (for example showing scale).
Rules
What comprises an entry?
Each $25 AUD entry fee entitles you to include 4 images. Each photographer may submit up to 4 entries of 4 images.
Can I enter an image that has won another competition?
No. Any entries which have won either an national or international competition are not permitted. Images winning local camera/photography club prizes are permitted.
Are edited photos allowed to be entered?
Editing is allowed on your image however you are not allowed to add objects into your image or any excessive removal of objects other than small debris or dust spots. For the short listed entries we may require you to supply a RAW image of the selected photo.
How will the judging work?
The judges will not know whose images they are judging. Once all entries are in, all images will pass through an initial selection of images to be taken through to final judging where images will be scored against technical, artistic and compositional criteria.
The top ranked images will then be voted on by the judges to select the winners and runner’s up in each category along with the overall winner and runner’s up.
What’s this about a book?
One of the terms and conditions of entering the contest is that your image may end up being published in the Landscape Photography World Awards book which will showcase the images of the top ranked photographers. All prize winners will receive a free copy of the book as part of their prize. The book will be available for sale after the competition. If you or your family or friends would like a copy, links will be made available once the competition winner have been announced.
How will I get my prize?
If you are one of the prize winners you will be contacted to provide bank transfer details for the money to be transferred to you bank account.
Any local laws relating to taxes on competition winnings will apply and compliance will be the responsibility of the winners.