2020 Winners Gallery
Photo by Juan López Ruiz96
Countries Represented
2587
Open Entries
3060
Amateur Entries
212
VR/360 Entries
5859
Overall Entries
1452
Photographers Entered
Open Photographer of the Year
Matt Jackisch, Canada
Spring Hibernation, Squamish, BC, Canada
I spent a blissful day snowshoeing in the BC Coastal Mountains in March. With such a deep snowpack, it was still very wintery up high. I find the more time I spend alone in nature, the quieter my mind gets. The quieter my mind gets, the more subtleties I notice in my surroundings. I only saw this tree because of that state of being. This image was a product of solitude and mindfulness.
About Matt Jackisch
I have a passion for experiencing and capturing powerful displays of the natural world. My aim is to depict untold beauty of our planet through creative imagery. The harder I work for an image, the more it becomes a part of me. I answer the call of the wild whenever possible, and believe that the more time one spends mindfully in the outdoors, the less they identify with the limitations of their circumstances. In sharing my depictions, I hope to awaken in people new perspectives and appreciations of our precious Earth.
Open Photographer of the Year
Matt Jackisch, Canada
Sunburst Valley, Assiniboine, Canada
We had come to see the grand unveiling of the mighty Assiniboine only to find she wasn’t accepting visitors on this evening. So we waited. And waited some more. With my fellow photographers 100 feet below me, I was out of sight, so I danced to stay warm. Then a cloud enveloped us completely and my heart sank even further. But then without warning, it happened. In fact everything happened. As the cloud passed by us, the scene changed completely. Light began pouring into the valley. The lakes began to calm. And Assiniboine herself peaked out to give us a royal wave hello. This is why we endure. The ones who came before us appropriately named this valley, ‘Sunburst Valley.’ Clearly this awesome spectacle has been witnessed before.
Open Photographer of the Year
Matt Jackisch, Canada
Castle in the Sky, Floe Lake, BC, Canada
Not long after we arrived at this lake in the Canadian Rockies, an intense snow storm drove us into our tents. Too cold to sleep, I spent the entire night listening to the howling wind and a continuation of crackling thunder and thundering avalanches. The Earth rumbled. I could feel my heart pounding with how much power was being unleashed outside. Then eventually, silence. We dug ourselves out at dawn and emerged into this incredible calm. After the sun came up, a fog bank climbed the valley to ebb and flow along the waters of the lake. It was magic. I couldn’t resist a ‘selfie’ style image for a sense of scale among these incredible cliffs.
Winner – Open – Nature / Landscape
(& overall winner in the Open competition)
Matt Jackisch, Canada
Spring Hibernation, Squamish, BC, Canada
Winner – Open – Built Environment / Architecture
(& runner-up in the Open competition)
Colin Leonhardt, Australia
Mine Waste, Collie, Western Australia
2020 Amateur Awards
2020 Major Amateur Winner
Juan López Ruiz , Spain
Light and Dark on the Towers, Cuatro Torres financial complex in Madrid, Spain
View of two of the four skyscrapers that make up the Cuatro Torres financial complex in Madrid, I really liked the composition of the towers along with one of the canopies in the area, I took the image thinking of doing a digital black and white processing enhancing the contrast by adding shadows and light to create a more impressive image.
About Juan López Ruiz
I am an amateur photographer born in Madrid, Spain.
My passion for photography has been with me since I was a child and I have always found it very interesting to be able to portray and immortalize the unique moments that nature offers us.
In 2017 I could finally buy my first digital reflex camera and since then I have not stopped learning and perfecting myself in this beautiful art being able to combine my passion for photography and nature, until now I have not stopped documenting myself in an autodidactic way learning to understand light and perfecting my technique in the use of the camera as well as in the subsequent digital edition of my images which for me is something fundamental.
My specialty is landscape photography but I have also developed a special interest in architectural and wildlife photography.
2020 Major Amateur Winner
Juan López Ruiz , Spain
Night Palace, Madrid, Spain
The Palace of Aranjuez reflected in the water under the stars, is one of the residences of the Spanish royal family, located in the Real Sitio and the Villa de Aranjuez, in the Community of Madrid.
2020 Major Amateur Winner
Juan López Ruiz , Spain
The Mysterious Fortress, Toledo, Spain
Alcazar of the city of Toledo was shrouded in fog. It was still dark when I arrived in the city to photograph the fog at dawn but when I arrived and saw the spectacle that the fog created along with the lights of the city I quickly took out my equipment to photograph the monument, the fog was coming down so I had to hurry, I made several long exposures and I liked the result of the fog textures reflecting the city lights, the image is composed of two photographs at 50mm as I did not have time to change the focus of the camera.
Winner – Amateur – Landscape / Nature
(& runner-up in the Amateur competition)
Carlos F. Turienzo, Spain
Janela, Madeira Island, Portugal
Winner – Amateur – Built Environment / Architecture
(& overall winner in the Amateur competition)
Juan López Ruiz , Spain
Light and Dark on the Towers, Cuatro Torres financial complex in Madrid, Spain
2020 VR/360 Award
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2020 VR/360 Award Winner
Oleg Gaponyuk, Russia
Split in the Cave, Chandelier Cave, Palau
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Stalactites and other limestone cave formations can grow in different forms and sometimes these “clusters” resemble lightning appliances. The word “chandelier” is often used in the official terminology for cave deposits. In Palau, there are so many of these picturesque formations that they gave the name to the whole cave.
Additional Placing Images
2020 EPSON Digital Art Prize
Manish Mamtani, USA
Dragon Eye, Iceland
This image was taken during one of my recent trips to Iceland and it shows the top-down view of an emerald geothermal pool in the Highlands. After enjoying a beautiful sunset on one of these days, I decided to continue driving to this geothermal area which was a couple of hours away. In July, the sun goes below the horizon only for a couple of hours- so the golden hour is usually much longer followed by the blue hour/twilight. The drive was beautiful with no one around but the vast and rugged landscape of the Icelandic highlands. I reached this geothermal area sometime before sunrise. While my initial plan was to get there and rest for sometime, the early morning golden light tempted me to fly my drone and explore the area first. I am so glad I decided to do that because the steam from the geysers, combined with the beautiful morning light, was creating a perfect canvas for amazing drone shots. I stumbled across this pool while exploring the area and the morning light was hitting it at all the right places and highlighting not just the emerald color of the pool, but also the gazillion little streams that were coming out of it. To me, it appeared as though i was looking at the eye of a dragon – It was breathtaking!! I tried a couple of shots and finally settled on this one – which shows the true splendor of this place.
2020 Curators Award
Armand Sarlangue, France
Convergence in the Dark, Central Utah Badlands
2020 Nikon Award
Alan Mathieson, Australia
Slovenia Sunrise, Slovenia
2020 One of a Kind Award
Tyler Lekki, USA
Patagonia Peaks, Argentina
2020 Special Awards
Highest Scoring IVRPA member in any category
Pietro Madaschi, Italy
Paris, France
Highest Scoring IAPP member
Blake Randall, Canada
Cascade Crown, Bella Coola, BC, Canada
Highest Scoring Smartphone Pano
Tyler Lekki, USA
Camp Just for the Sunrise, Patagonia El Chalten, Argentina
Highest Scoring Aerial Image
Manish Mamtani, USA
Dragon Eye, Iceland
Highest Scoring Vertical Image
Mohammad Rahman, Australia
Quite in the Riverbank, Bangladesh
Highest Scoring Gigapixel Image
Jason Denning, UK
The HDB, Singapore