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Glenorchy

Scott Jon William Mccook

Australia

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Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia, the farming of Beta Carotene, creates a human made maze of abstract patterns from above.

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Honorable Mention

Nominee

Farmed

The iconic Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, the mix of fog rolling in and some camera movement made for this unique scene.

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Cloud Atlas

A bauxite processing plant in Western Australia waters down the potential dust caused by this process, the result is a very industrial but almost beautiful look in an otherwise not environmentally friendly process, with a partial rainbow occurring over the ponds from the watering system.

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Tailing

On an early Sunday morning deer farmers in South Island New Zealand use a farm dog to chase the stag and deer up and down the paddock, this is to keep the deer warm on the freezing May mornings. The by-product is they create their own "floating cloud" of steam, a unique photographic opportunity.

Hutt Lagoon sits as a natural wonder of the world but also a source of beta carotene that is "farmed" from a section of the lake, a fascinating mix of nature and human interaction.