The winning images from the first-ever Natural Landscape Photography Awards were recently announced. The competition was started to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” with rules set up to prevent deceptive editing techniques. More than 1,300 photographers entered from 47 countries. The organizers were kind enough to share the following winners and runners-up from this year’s contest.
Winners of the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
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![Multiple lightning strikes illuminate a stark mountaintop at night.]()
Read moreWinner, Nightscape: Lightning strikes the summit of the Matterhorn. #
Paul Hammett / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![Unique, icicle-like ice formations.]()
Read moreWinner, Photographer of the Year (1 of 3) #
Eric Bennett / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![Mountains are reflected in an alpine stream.]()
Read moreWinner, Photographer of the Year (2 of 3) #
Eric Bennett / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![Yellow leaves among white-trunked trees.]()
Read moreWinner, Photographer of the Year (3 of 3) #
Eric Bennett / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![Looking down on an iceberg on a black sand beach beside a rounded orange pebble, creating a scene that looks like the moon over a mountaintop at night.]()
Read moreWinner, Photograph of the Year: a landscape image made from an iceberg resting on a black-sand beach in Iceland, alongside a small orange rock #
Steve Alterman / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![A wallaby rests among scorched brush.]()
Read moreWinner, Project: "ASH" documents the unprecedented fires in Tasmania in 2019 (1 of 3). #
Matt Palmer / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![A brush fire burns on a hillside, seen through tree cover.]()
Read moreWinner, Project: "ASH" documents the unprecedented fires in Tasmania in 2019 (2 of 3). #
Matt Palmer / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![Green vines cling to blackened tree trunks following a brush fire.]()
Read moreWinner, Project: "ASH" documents the unprecedented fires in Tasmania in 2019 (3 of 3). #
Matt Palmer / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![A spiral shape resembling a hurricane, made of stripes of white and black material.]()
Read moreWinner, Aerial: a view from above, looking down at a landscape feature in the Australian desert #
Paul Hoelen / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![Sunlight filters through the atmosphere among steep rocky mountains.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Project: "The Drakensberg," images from the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa (1 of 3) #
Carl Smorenburg / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![A steep mountain valley, covered in small green plants.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Project: "The Drakensberg," images from the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa (2 of 3) #
Carl Smorenburg / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![Mountaintops poke through a thick fog bank.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Project: "The Drakensberg," images from the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa (3 of 3) #
Carl Smorenburg / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![Bare trees and bushes are seen on a mountainside.]()
Read moreWinner, Intimate & Abstract: An autumn view of aspen trees in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains #
Franka Gabler / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![Angular stone is seen embedded inside weathered wood.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Photographer of the Year (1 of 3) #
Ben Horne / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![A single red leaf rests on a thin sheet of ice.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Photographer of the Year (2 of 3) #
Ben Horne / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
![A red cliff face is seen beyond several reddish boulders.]()
Read moreRunner-Up, Photographer of the Year (3 of 3) #
Ben Horne / Natural Landscape Photography Awards -
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![Steep cliffs are seen shrouded in mist and sunlight.]()
Read moreWinner, Grand Landscape: A misty view of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley #
Michael Frye / Natural Landscape Photography Awards
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