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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Good 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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Ten 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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Stranger 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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Flying Shanghai. Open Award Winner, Built Environment / Architecture, Highest Scoring Aerial Image; and Top Ten, Open Built Environment / Architecture, Shanghai, China. #
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