Best of the Week

“This photo was captured at King Kong Hill – the pretty famous viewpoint with an outlook on Mount Bromo in Java. I tried to convey the magnitude of the scene, which looked straight out of Jurassic Park.”

“Often it is difficult to express how big something actually is in just a picture. Therefore, we were lucky that the group of women came along for the sunrise and Flurina was able to position herself in such a way that I got the necessary scaling point.”

“The winning shot was actually a part of a sequence of a few more photos. I had been on a photography mission with a company and we were on our way home, enjoying the views during the ride as the landscape was lit up by the full moon.”

“At the end of June 2020, I decided to go on a solo trip in my van for a few months to photograph the most beautiful landscapes in Europe. I was working in a refuge in the Mont Blanc massif at the time and all my free time was spent setting up my van, so it practically became my house on wheels.”

“Almost a three-hour drive from the Alentejo region toward the west coast of Portugal you can find Óbidos. That’s where my winning Nomadict shot was taken during a long weekend getaway.”

“The goal was to be up there for sunset, and we quickly saw that we weren’t the only ones with that idea. However, as soon as the cable car took us out of the fog, that didn’t matter anymore. The view we had from up there was just breathtaking.”

“The good experiences lift you up and drive you to want more of them and the bad experiences teach you that it’s not always going to go in your favor and you have to fight for what you want!”

“As I arrived, I couldn’t believe what was in front of me—a thick layer of clouds rolling over the range of sharp edges and dropped down into the valley.”

“These are the types of beautiful moments that inspire me, when I’m standing on a mountain, with my girlfriend or friends.”

“That night in Kirkjufell I was in my van watching a game on the computer before I decided to go out for a bit to take 2-3 night shots. I got out of the van, put my tripod down, set my shutter speed to 20 seconds and took my first photo. As I looked at the photo, I saw a thin green line in the sky. That meant that the aurora was coming!”