Our world in wide-screen:
Stunning panoramic photographs taken from land, sea and the sky capture
nature's beauty
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870 photographers entered the
fifth Epson International Pano Awards
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Nearly 4000 entries of
breathtaking photographs were submitted
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Photographers competed for
$40,000 in cash and other prizes
From haunting images of clouds rolling in over a bridge in America
to a surfer battling for a wave with a leaping dolphin, photographers from
around the world have submitted some of the most stunning panoramic images ever
captured.
Nearly 900 photographers entered
the Epson International Pano Awards, an annual competition that brings together
the best wide-lens images of the past 12 months.
American Dennis Ramos was the
overall winner with his picture of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
'It was a beautiful cloudless day
with some patches of rolling fog over the bridge. My friend and I decided to go
fishing that mid afternoon. I found out that my reel wasn't working so I
grabbed my camera gear instead,' he said.
'It took me a lot of time waiting
and shooting in between the fog to get a good exposure. While waiting during
long exposure times, I wished I had my fishing rod as well.'
Ben Neale, an Australian
photographer, won the amateur competition in the nature and also the open
nature category. He used a paraglider to capture a breathtaking image of a
flock of brolga birds in Arnhem Land. The picture also won him the highest
scoring aerial image.
'It was a tricky shot as I was
out shooting landscapes that day and knew I would have to get very low to
capture the brolgas in great detail, with a lot of sharp turns and some near
misses it all came together in just 3 frames out of 200,' Mr Neale said.
Another Aussie photographer who
made it in the finalist category was Matt Hutton. He named his shot 'Right
Place Right Time' after capturing a magical moment between a dolphin and a
surfer at Jacques Point in Western Australia.
The fifth Epson International
Pano Awards received nearly 4000 entries from 870 photographers, each vying for
the $40,000 top prize.
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Dennis Ramos, the overall open
photographer of the year
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Ben Neale's Arnhem Land won the
amateur competition. He said 'the birds are Australian brolgas, it was taken
from a powered paraglider and is a 3 image stitch'
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Photographer Matt Hutton named
his image Right Place Right Time after capturing this perfect and magical
moment by luck
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Craig Williams shot at Cable
Beach, Broome, Western Australia. Mr Williams said 'having watched the large
camel trains meander along the pristine Cable Beach at sunset many times, I
recently decided it was time I attempted to capture this quite unique and
spectacular scene within a photograph'
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The mountains in the background
are the Whale's hill and the Buracão hill in Maytreia Gardens, Veadeiros
Tablelands National Park, Brazil. Photographer Marcio Cabral said he 'used
painted light in the foreground and waited for the best time to capture the arc
of the Milky Way'
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Taken in the Republic of Iceland,
ICE-Land required a 'full commitment of men and material'
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Huggen Angelese said, 'This early
morning image was taken from the Marine Headlands across San Francisco, CA on
September 2013. My imagination was captivated by the City that appears to be
floating and being carried by the fog in the background. It was a golden
sunrise at the Golden Gate Bridge!'
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Quindalup Boat Ramp Dunsborough,
Western Australia. Andrea Jones said, 'My first attempt at capturing the
photograph I envisioned for the Quindalup Boat Ramp was unsuccessful. The
weather conditions were unfavourable, and fishermen arrived early to launch
their boats'
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The Image captures a hanging lamp
named Melograno Blu, "Blue Pomegranate" and is produced by an Italian
Company with the same name
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Bob Kim captured Kirkjufellsfoss,
one of the iconic triple waterfalls situated in Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Mr Kim
set up his tripod before dawn. He said, 'This morning's colourful sunrise has
exceeded my expectation with glorious display of warm light that penetrated
into the heart of the mystic waterfall'
Photographer Ray Jennings took
9th place in the Open - Nature competition
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Anna Gibiskys captures Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. She said, 'The first thing you hear about this city will be
his nickname - Marvellous City. Rio is a city of wonder both in its
surroundings and its people. There is no other place like it on Earth!'
This photograph was taken from a
small hill over looking the rice fields of rural China's north eastern Guangxi
Zhuang region
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Photographer Kuo Chih Chen took
10th place in the Open - Nature competition
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Douglas Peebles captures 20+ foot
waves in the early morning at at Waimea Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
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This photograph captures Ross
Jones Memorial Pool, Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia
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Ed Cooley's 'A Mysterious Land'
captures Zhanjiajie National Forest, Hunan Province, China
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' The Rock' - Hermitage of San
Juan de Gaztelugatxe, in the north of Spain
Photographer Timo Lieber said, 'Earlier
this year, I camped in the Rubʿ al Khali - the world's largest sand desert and
one of the driest places on the planet. With only desert mice for company and
endless sandstorms, it was also one of the more challenging environments I have
worked in so far. But the reward came in form of amazing dune shapes and
beautiful light'
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This medieval church that dates
to the 12th century sits on this tiny little island called Cribinau in Wales,
which is surrounded by a sea wall
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Julien Bastide photographs
Montreal, Quebec from below the "Échangeur Turcot" which is a three
level freeway interchange
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Jason Henthorne's 'Miami in the
morning'
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This lake is located near a power
plant in Hungary close to Bokod
The photograph, Mangroves,
was taken at Wellington Point in Brisbane
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Marco Castelli
captures Brunelleschi's Dome, Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, in
Florence, Italy. It is the biggest stone cupola ever built and the highest and
widest point of view of the city
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Debbie Fowler shot this
photograph from an open door helicopter ride over the Cambridge Gulf on the
North Coast of Western Australia
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Australian photographer Ben Neale
said 'This image took 2 weeks of flying and scouting for all the elements to
finally come together, although the herds where numerous, to get a family group
like this out in the open, in formation, on the red tinged grass was very
difficult'
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Haibo Chi's Posture of
kingfisher
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Photographer Mohammad Reza Domiri
said using a tripod inside the Vakil bath in Shiraz, Iran is banned
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The image captures the Brooklyn
Bridge Park in New York City
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The key elements for 'Macau
Painting' was location, height, drops, colour and culture
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Photographer Ben Messina captured
'Eye of the storm' 'after spending the afternoon scouting locations for
sunrise and sunset images. He said 'it was amazing to see this storm start to
move in our direction'
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Will Dielenberg shot 'Holding
back the sea' at Torquay, Victoria, Australia
