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The lone tree in fog

Paul Fowler

United Kingdom

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Nominee

The mist is closing in

Honorable Mention

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The lines are holding

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The light the trees and the layers

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The enchanted forest

Long exposure of a flapping swan at Beescraig Loch, near Linlithgow, Scotland.

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Swan of Tuonela

2023 Sturgeon moon taken near Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Sturgeon moon.

The Sir Duncan Rice Library at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, was designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The £57 million award-winning building is iconic. Here I have worked to capture the spirit of the library, focusing on angles and imagery around bookshelves.

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Reductionist Library

Approaching and leaving Mont Saint Michel, night and dawn.

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Blue and gold and black and white.

Aquilegia flowers of the variety granny's bonnet shot against a black background, using 3 white lights.

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Silver

Granny's Bonnet

In the fog, one of the small islands at Beescraigs Park, West Lothian, Scotland, looks mysterious and out of reach.

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So close to the mysterious island.