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Hemisfèric

Judith Kuhn

Germany

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Apparently there is a multi-colored lighting concept for this bridge - but on that evening it was simply illuminated in white - so I chose a monochrome post-processing

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Nominee

Sheikh Zayed Bridge

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la gondola nera

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Silver

duetto di gondole

Kirkjufellsfoss is now so overcrowded that I only take pictures there very early in the morning. Many people (also photographers) don't get out of bed early in the morning and so you are usually alone in this beautiful place an hour before sunrise.

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golden Kirkjufellsfoss

A spontaneous change of plan due to the weather brought me to this wonderful place at sunset. Háifoss (correctly: Háifoss í Fossá) is the third highest waterfall at 122 meters and is located in Fossárdalur, the rearmost part of Þjórsárdalur.

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Háifoss í Fossá

This was my fifth trip to Lake Saoseo. I've never been able to get a decent picture of this picturesque, but also quite overcrowded lake. A few minutes before sunset the clouds broke up, but there were still too many clouds (and in the wrong place) for the expected color spectacle.

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Lagh da Saoseo

The fairytale of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi is shown after sunset. A unique lighting system reflects the phases of the moon.

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Gold

Sheikh Zayed Mosque

For this picture I would have liked some ground fog...
Nevertheless, a little ground fog would have created a mystical atmosphere and more hoarfrost on the trees.

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Saint Coloman

After a rainy day the Hintersee in the bavarian Berchtesgadener Land showed up with layers of fog light enough to allow the morning sun to shine through the fog and low enough so that the mountains appear above the fog...

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symphony of fog

one of the highlights in Northern Ireland - not only for friends of "Game of Thrones" is the alley Bregagh Road in Antrim County. Unbelievable that such an alley really exists...

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Honorable Mention

the dark hedges

Opposite the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi is the Wahat al Karama, a memorial to the country's soldiers. The central square is determined by a flat water surface, in which the large mosque is reflected

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Wahat al Karama

I was searching for some ibexes in the Bernese Oberland when I saw this scene a short time after sunrise. The landscape would not have been really spectacular with the classic landscape lens, the wide angle, but the view of details through the telephoto revealed some things worth seeing...

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window to infinity

About six weeks before this photo was taken, I was already standing at Aldeyarfoss - at that time it was a completely different picture. The onset of winter came early and violently. This morning it was a cool -6 ° C, but I enjoyed the wintry mood with the light color of the sky

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Bronze

Aldeyjarfoss

The Hotel Shangri-La in the center of Dubai has a small but fine roof terrace on the 42nd floor, exclusively for guests of the Horizon Club Suites, which offers a wonderful view of Downtown Dubai and the Burj Khalifa. Ideal at sunset and in the evening blue hour.

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Downtown Dubai

I've always wanted to experience Goðafoss in winter, but when I was there I actually felt like in an other world: it was bitterly cold, a strong wind was blowing from the north-east and it was snowing almost non-stop .

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Discovery of the Year

yearning for spring

I love this play of light and shadow with hard contrasts, which are conjured up by the low sun in the dunes of the Rub al Khali. I was particularly lucky this morning, the strong wind pushed the fine sand over the crests of the dunes

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blowin' in the wind

The first morning in Dubai. After a very short night I hadn't even positioned myself correctly and then I was able to get a picture just before the wind started and the reflection was gone.

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Dubai Business Bay

The first snow of winter in my region, freshly fallen the evening before, creates a beautiful atmosphere around Neuschwanstein Castle with the fog

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holidays are coming

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The Skaftá is a volcanic river in southern Iceland. It rises in the north-west of Vatnajökull, flows south in a wide arc and finally flows into the North Atlantic at Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Regular jökulhaups (glacial runs) from the Skaftárkatlar flood the river bed annually.