The World's Largest Photography Award Reveals its Stunning Shortlist

Swirling tornadoes, glittering ice caves and a breaching killer whale: The world's largest photography awards disclose its stunning shortlist. There’re some of the entries to have made the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, now in its 10th year. You can see a vast tornado over a deserted highway in Texas, whereas another captures of an almighty killer whale breaches off the northern coast of Hokkaido in Japan, tossing silver shards of glimmering water into the air as it breaks the surface.

Thus, the 49 countries are represented in the shortlist, with the winners to be revealed on April 20 in London. These are just some of the moment’s judges for the Sony World Photography Awards have picked out for this year's shortlist. For the 2017 competition, the largest in the world, now in its 10th year - photographers from across the planet entered a record 227,596 images across the awards' Professional, Open and Youth categories. This was indeed a truly global reach to the Sony World Photography Awards judging this year - the images were more diverse and broad ranging than have ever seen before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italian Photographer Captures Stunning Rugged Landscape by Using Fisheye Lens

An Italian photographer Riccardo Maria Mantero has used a fisheye lens to capture a series of remarkable scenes while travelling through Utah, Nevada and Arizona, adding a distinctive touch to these well-photographed panoramas. The twinkling stars in a purple sky, erratic rock formations and iconic landscapes and the spectacular southwest American countryside, but not quite as you've seen it before.

The Milan based photographer captures the Grand Canyon and The Arches National Park are just two of the spectacular vistas he snapped. The 45 years old photographer aid:  in fact I’ve never get tired of the landscape, because I love them so much due to their colors, their skies and their iconic history. These fantastic places are so popular and have been captured by well-established photographers but I haven't seen too many done with a fisheye, so I tried to something different and wanted to change the point of view with extreme distortion to achieve something exceptional. The talented artist boasts a degree in computer science and has worked for the biggest technology companies in the world. He professes to be an inquisitive person and loves discovering new places.

Astonishing Drone Footage Shows the Flying Scotsman Steaming Across a Massive Viaduct

One of most amazing drone footage of the Flying Scotsman steaming across a scenic viaduct is an impressive sight and not just for trains-potters. The incredibly beautiful journey was captured by hobby drone operator Neil Fedorowycz, who watched the live action footage through his iPad as he controlled the drone with his wife, Marnie. The viaduct was built in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in 1923; the Flying Scotsman in 1934 pulled the first train to break the 100mph barrier.

Thus, a cloudy, grey day was brightened up by the iconic locomotive chugging along the tracks of the Harringworth viaduct in Northamptonshire, which is longest masonry viaduct in Britain. The huge numbers of amazed onlookers gathered in the field to see the magnificent train sped down the railway on its journey from London to Yorkshire. Moreover, after steaming through Wellingborough station, the train stopped at Kettering to pick up passengers and fill up with water before thundering on over the viaduct.

The 47 year old Neil Fedorowycz said; I cycle through this countryside very often and this viaduct is remarkable piece of engineering art work. It is really breathtaking when Flying Scotsman steaming across the top of it, really a great opportunity to miss. It is extremely difficult to manage drone battery which lasts only 20 minutes when the drone was up in the air and the train was running about 20 minutes late. 

 In fact, it is incredibly eye-catching moment, when the train fly across just I was changing the battery and I might miss the opportunity. However, I was so luckily to drone up in the air at eleventh hour and capture the entire scenes. I was stunned to saw the locomotive crossing the viaduct due to extremely breathtaking view. Moreover, a huge crowd also gathered there to watch the moment, and everyone love to see this great fun activity. It was two flawless pieces of engineering coming together and getting such a super shot is icing on the cake. 

The Rare World’s Ariel Photographs, You’ve Never Seen it Before

The planet earth is extremely beautiful, and by seeing these images, you’d take a long breath and feel you’ve never seen it before. A British pilot exposes, winding rivers, glittering skylines, tall peak under infrared light. The earth is best viewed from above, by taking incredible aerial photographs of majestic landscapes. The British pilot Captain Jon Bowles takes the Dubai’s man-made Palm islands from his cockpit at altitudes of up to 40,000ft. 

He has taken some of incredibly photos of K2 peaks, the 2^nd highest mountain in the world in Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro, Canada's frozen Labrador coast, Great Rift Valley in Africa, Kunlun Mountains in China, Iran's Lake Urmia, Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, Padma River in Bangladesh, and the sacred waters of the Ganges Delta and Kunyang Chhish mountain & salt flats of Pakistan. The Bolton based, 55 years old pilot, used a modified Sony Nex 5N camera to capture these breathtaking pictures in a completely different spectrum. His astonishing shooting shows the world in a light impossible for the human eye to detect.