TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Kazuaki Koseki, Japan
www.kazuakikoseki.com Instagram: @isseycraft
Location: Lake Shirakawa, Iide Town, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
The fresh green season has arrived, the sunshine, and the trees shine beautifully. The fog continues to change like a living thing. I was able to wait for the sun to shine and the fog and submerged forest to have a beautiful composition. For a period from the end of winter to early summer, Lake Shirakawa is filled with water from melting snow and a ‘submerged forest’ appears. The water in the lake changes colour between light blue and light green, and mist, combined with the reflections which look like a submerged forest, create a fantastic landscape.
Martin Broen, USA
www.martinbroen.com Instagram: @m.broen
Location: La Ventana, Baja California, Mexico
A split shot of a mobula ray fever cruising below the divers’ boat as part of their annual migration in the waters of Baja California.
MARTIN’S TOP TIPS
1 A variety of skills – learn very different types of photography and cross-pollinate that knowledge with your specific type of photography. From super-macro to deep space astrophotography, from vertoramas to infrared… each will give you unique knowledge that you can apply.
2 Experiment. Related to that learning process is the experimentation. Feel comfortable with always trying new techniques and failing! Embrace and enjoy the process of learning and discovery. And if possible, do it together with a friend.
3 Be responsible. Acknowledge that you have a responsibility as a photographer to help capture and share the beauty of this world with other people, to help protect it! Be respectful of nature and approach animals on their own terms.
Cliff Fawcett, UK
www.clifffawcett.com Instagram: @clifffawcett
Location: Havana, Cuba
Just outside the crumbling city of Old Havana, buried among dilapidated buildings and apartments, lies a small, open-air boxing gym. It doesn’t look like much, yet the gym is renowned for creating champion after champion. While the credit has to go to the coaches, perhaps when you have legendary figures like Che Guevara watching every swing and uppercut, you push that little b
