Over One Hundred Incredible and Motivational Photographs
It’s my pleasure to share with photoPXL readers this year’s top 101 entries of the 2023 International Landscape Photographer Of The Year photo competition.
2023 ILPOTY Awards – The Results!
Our tenth year! Thank you to all the amazing landscape photographers who have been a part of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards. It is a privilege looking through all the entries and watching the judges gradually work their way down to the top 101 amazing, incredible, inspiring landscape photographs.
And thank you to our core judges David Burnett, Kaye Davis, Jim Goldstein and Tim Parkin. Their combined judging experience, along with the previous International Landscape Photographer of the Year, Benjamín Briones Grandi, curate a body of work with a range of aesthetics and approaches. If nothing else, our formula produces a broad sweep of landscape images, from the classic to the contemporary, where both single capture and composite imagery can sit side by side and celebrate our art form.
One of the reasons we reward the Top 101 landscape photographs every year is because, once you reach a certain level of brilliance, is it really possible to definitively say one photograph is better than another? In our tenth year, the challenges of determining the overall Photographer of the Year revealed themselves only too clearly. We had a dead heat between two portfolios, each receiving two first places and having the same preference votes. Under our rules, the stalemate is resolved by asking the fifth judge (the only judge who hadn’t scored one of the portfolios in first place) to cast the deciding vote.
So congratulations to Tony Hewitt from Australia, our International Landscape Photographer of the Year for 2023, and also to Andrew Mielzynski who proudly sits in a very close second place.
We received 4035 entries and the threshold for inclusion in the book (a Top 101 entry) was a score of 85.4%. However, as we are realising every year, between 84.2% and 84.5% there were at least another 101 entries that would look fantastic in a second book – so again we have added a link on our website to recognise the Top 202+ as well.
There is US $10,000 in cash prizes for the best Photograph of the Year (single shot, 1st, 2nd, 3rd) and best Photographer of the Year (portfolio of four photographs, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), and there are five special subject awards which receive a one metre print from the high-end photo lab and framer, Created For Life. All 11 winners receive a physical copy of the annual Awards book, proudly printed by Momento Pro. We’d also like to thank NiSi Filters once again as a sponsor, providing some of their wonderful products as prizes.
The 2023 Winners Are
Photographer of the Year: Tony Hewitt, Australia
Second Place: Andrew Mielzynski, Canada
Third Place: Matt Meisenheimer, United States
Photograph of the Year: Blake Randall, Canada
Second Place: Peter Meyer, Australia
Third Place: Isabella Tabacchi, Italy
Special Award Winners
Jim Guerard, United States (Black and White)
Casey McCallister, United States (Aerial)
Thomas Vijayan, Canada (Snow and Ice)
Ciaran Willmore, Ireland (Seascape)
John Seager, United Kingdom (Desert)
On behalf of David Evans, my co-convenor, we once again hope you enjoy the best landscape photographs in the world from 2023.
Peter Eastway
Chairman of Judges
International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards.
Gallery Of The Winners
I hope these images serve as inspiration and motivation. Please enjoy. If you are a silver or gold member, you can click on an image and see it full with of your monitor.
Location Details: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Location Details: French Alps, France
Location Details: Hautes Fagnes, Belgium
Location Details: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
Location Details: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
Location Details: White Sands, New Mexico
Location Details: Bergwinkel, Germany
Location Details: Wheatbelt Region Western Australia
Location Details: Death Valley, California, USA
Location Details: Shark Bay, Western Australia
Location Details: King River Tidal Plain, Wyndham Western Australia
Location Details: King River Tidal Plain, Western Australia
Location Details: Meander forest, Great Western Tiers, Tasmania
Location Details: Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
Location Details: Renjo La Pass, Nepal
Location Details: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Location Details: Zion National Park, Utah, USA
Location Details: K’gari (Fraser Island) Queensland, Australia
Location Details: Savoie, France
Location Details: Bioparque PuquŽn, Los Molles, Chile.
Location Details: Lamington National Park, South East Queensland
Location Details: Manning Park, BC, Canada
Location Details: Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada
Location Details: Stetinden – National Mountain of Norway. Nordland Norway
Location Details: Squamish, BC
Location Details: River …lfus‡, Iceland
Location Details: Myoko, Japan
Location Details: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Location Details: Papara – Tahiti – French Polynesia
Location Details: Salar de Arizaro, Puna de Argentina, Argentina
Location Details: Wufeng Township, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Location Details: Atacama Region, Chile
Location Details: fargefell iceland
Location Details: Sossusvlei, Namibia
Location Details: Mœlajškull Glacier Iceland
Location Details: Lili Hrutur Volcano in Iceland
Location Details: Tenerife, Spain
Location Details: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA
Location Details: Acadia National Park, Maine, USA
Location Details: Alaska
Location Details: Pangong Lake, Ladakh Union Territory, India
Location Details: Biosphere reserve Rhoen/Germany.
Location Details: Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England
Location Details: Kiluan beach, Sumatera Island, Indonesia.
Location Details: Gigi Hiu Beach, Sumatera Island, Indonesia.
Location Details: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Location Details: Alaska, USA
Location Details: La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Location Details: Laguna Torre- El Chalten, Argentina
Location Details: Tjornuvik, Streymoy Island, Faroe Islands
Location Details: Jabal Shams – Oman
Location Details: Mount Seymour, Vancouver, Canada
Location Details: Rattray Head,Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Location Details: Eystahorn, Iceland
Location Details: Bay Area, California, USA
Location Details: Japan kanagawa “Ashino Lake”
Location Details: Iceland
Location Details: Boulder, Colorado
Location Details: Mt. Jade, Taiwan
Location Details: Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Location Details: Gates of the Arctic, Alaska
Location Details: Kauai, Hawaii
Location Details: El Chalten, Patagonia
Location Details: El Chalten, Patagonia
Location Details: Monument Valley, Arizona, USA
Location Details: Svalbard
Location Details: Vestrahorn, Iceland
Location Details: Hon Yen, Phu Yen province, Vietnam
Location Details: Moab, UT
Location Details: Ichinomata River, Yamaguchi, Japan
Light of the Soul photographed by Ryohei Irie, Japan
Location Details: Ichinomata River, Yamaguchi, Japan
Location Details: Japan Yamagatapref Yamagatashi Senami
Location Details: M_ynarze, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Location Details: Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada
Location Details: Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado, USA
Location Details: Dartmoor Devon
Location Details: izu Shizuoka
Location Details: Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, northeast of Spain
Location Details: south iceland, Iceland’s rivers that flow into the ocean
Location Details: Utah; USA
Location Details: Hera_svštn, Skagafjšr_ur, Nor_urland Vestra, Iceland
Location Details: Socotra, Yemen
Location Details: Puc—n, Chile. Volc‡n Villarrica.
Location Details: Northwest Territories, Canada
Location Details: Cerro Torre, Argentina
Location Details: Grand Staircase, Utah, USA
Location Details: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Location Details: Paria Canyon, Utah
Location Details: Vadi Rum Jordan
Location Details: Sumiswald, Emmental, Switzerland
Location Details: Grooves on the ground and rivers in the highlands, Iceland.
Location Details: Yosemite National Park
Location Details: Manasquan Reservoir, New Jersey
Location Details: Death Valley National Park, California, USA
Location Details: Death Valley National Park, California, USA
Location Details: Death Valley National Park, California, USA.
Location Details: George L Smith State Park, Metter Georgia
Location Details: Lofoten, Nordland, Norway.
Location Details: Iceland, Skaftafell Glacier, Skaftafell National Park
Location Details: Monument Valley, Arizona, USA
Location Details: Utah, USA
Kevin Raber
December 2023
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