The top-scoring panoramic photos entered in the eighth annual Epson International Pano Awards have just been announced. The contest is meant to showcase the best work of panoramic photographers around the world. Organizers reported that they received 5,377 entries from 1,322 photographers in 71 countries this year, competing for the top spots in five categories, for several special awards, and for some of the $50,000 in cash and prizes offered. Contest organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners and top scorers here, and I invite you to enjoy these wide images of our natural and human-built worlds on the largest screen available to you.
Winners of the 2017 Epson International Pano Awards
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Read moreGood Morning Damian Shan. Major Open overall winner and Open Award Winner in Nature / Landscape. Taken at sunrise in China's Guangxi Province, along the Li River, this panorama by photographer Jesus M. Garcia is stitched together from seven vertical images. #
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Read moreIncoming. Amateur Award Winner. Nature / Landscape, photographed on Lake Windamere in New South Wales, Australia. #
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Read moreToledo City Foggy Night. Top Ten, Open Built Environment / Architecture, Toledo City, Spain. #
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Read moreThe Exit. Top Ten, Amateur Built Environment / Architecture, Moscow, Russia. #
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Read moreEye of Stokksnes. First Place, Carolyn Mitchum Award and Highest Scoring Gigapixel Image, photographed in Iceland. #
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Read moreTen Huts. Major Amateur overall winner and Amateur Award Winner, Built Environment / Architecture, a 100-second exposure of a collection of huts on the Essex coastline in the United Kingdom. #
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Read moreFlysch. Second Place, Epson Digital Art Prize, Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, Zumaia, Spain. #
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Read moreKarst Layers. Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, China. #
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Read moreEngulfed. Top Ten, Open Built Environment / Architecture, Downtown Dubai. #
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Read moreStranger Things. Curators Award, Top Ten, Amateur Nature / Landscapes. Car headlights illuminate a foggy pine grove in Boeun, South Korea, just before sunrise. #
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Read moreTemperate Breeze. Third Place, Carolyn Mitchum Award, photographed in Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. #
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Read morePoseidon Awakens. Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, Tellaro, La Spezia, Italy. #
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Read moreFlying Shanghai. Open Award Winner, Built Environment / Architecture, Highest Scoring Aerial Image; and Top Ten, Open Built Environment / Architecture, Shanghai, China. #
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Read moreConsumer. Third Place Epson Digital Art Prize and Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, Death Valley National Park, California. #
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Read moreAbyss. Top Ten, Amateur Built Environment / Architecture, Shoalstone, Brixham, Devon, England. #
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Read moreDowntown San Francisco. Top Ten, Open Built Environment / Architecture, San Francisco, USA. #
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Read moreWater and Ash. Top Ten, Amateur Nature / Landscapes, Dettifoss, Iceland. #
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Read moreMystic Mountain. Top Ten, Amateur Nature / Landscapes, Utah, USA. #
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Read moreMystical Eltz Castle in Morning Fog. Top Ten, Amateur Built Environment / Architecture, Wierschem, Germany. #
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Read moreRainbow over Monument Valley. Top Ten, Amateur Nature / Landscapes, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA. #
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Read moreThe Battle. Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, Lagazuoi Mount, Northern Italy. #
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Read moreThe Image of Fear. Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes. Lightning flashes inside the volcanic plume of the erupting Calbuco Volcano in Chile. #
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Read moreAcross The Universe. Highest Scoring Stitched Image and Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes, California. #
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Read moreAutumn View. Top Ten, Open Nature / Landscapes. Bled Island stands in the middle of Lake Bled in northwestern Slovenia. #
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