30 Winning Images Of One Eyeland Photography Awards 2021

"Each Spring, many nesting pairs of Great Egrets gather at Kraft Azalea Garden in Central Florida, the United States to begin their nesting rituals. I was inspired to share with the world the beauty of the Great Egrets. I made countless trips to the location in order to capture the most beautiful moments. Their true beauty is best reflected with their natural living environment. I wanted to fully utilize their enchanting surroundings to better obtain unique compositions. I carefully selected the camera positions and patiently waited for the best opportunities. During post-processing in Photoshop, I selected the sky to make it darker, and then I painted the light using the soft-brush tool to create a more dreamy and artistic impression. Over a period of two Spring seasons, I finally finished the series to display the beauty of wildlife in real Florida."

"Taken at Lake Kerkini in Greece. If looks could kill...I really wanted to capture the intense stare the Dalmatian Pelicans give when they are facing you. These birds are amazing, each one has a unique personality and unique hairstyle."

"The light emission of fireflies that can only be seen in Japan's limited mountains was shot with comparative synthesis.
 
The flash of these fireflies is very fast and beautiful. I look forward to the lights of these fireflies every year."

"It is a winter bird's-eye view of a frozen pond in Łódź Arturówek". It is one of the largest forest areas within the city limits in Europe (it covers an area of ​​1,205.45 ha). When this shape appeared on the controller screen, I couldn't believe my eyes! One of E. Munch's paintings immediately came to mind. It's amazing what kind of images nature itself can shape! It's as if the forest wanted to tell us something, or maybe shout out?"

"An aerial image taken over the floodplains in Australia, it depicts a landscape within a landscape. The alluvial fans depict trees, hills and clouds."

"Two wild mustangs from the Pryor Mountains in Montana having a moment."

"As a woman, I love this life in my own way. Vietnam is a beautiful country with hundreds of years old craft villages, beautiful natural landscapes and Vietnamese people who are always diligent in their labor. I like everyday moments, the people in work, and to me the most beautiful person is the person with daily life and their work. Because labor creates value in life, labor creates happiness.
 
I went around Vietnam, met workers, talked to them, understood what they did and shared with them funny stories. I recorded the moment they worked with the drone. With skilled hands, workers create colorful life pictures that can only be seen from the above view. They are like mature architects. And other beautiful images of people with nature.
 
Vietnam is a beautiful country with a diverse culture. Each region will have many unique cultural features with traditional villages that are hundreds of years old. The Vietnamese people stick to the traditional profession and take it as a way of gratitude to their ancestors. Although the traditional profession is very hard and low-income compared to other modern jobs, the artisans still stick to the profession as flesh and blood and want to pass it on to future generations."

"Absolut Cuba is Raúl Cañibano‘s declaration of love to his native country. His surprising, caring, yet incredibly precise take and his lightning-fast, instinctive and gripping intellect let him capture moments that might seem totally familiar: normal everyday life in urban or rural settings. This makes him one of the most gifted photographers in Latin America. His images are truthful and convey a sense of identity. They are filled with tradition, happiness, tragedy and magic."

"Impression of the roof of the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille."

"The Interior of the public library in Stuttgart is designed very well. Wide floors of the upside-down pyramid are making more space between each level. Everything looks very sterile and clear because of the amount of white light."

"A lioness yawns ahead of a hunt, showing the broken tooth lost fighting to feed her cubs."

"Around 263 million people globally have access to water sources that are considered safe but need to spend at least 30 minutes walking or queuing to collect their water. And the task of providing water for households falls disproportionately to women and girls, especially in rural areas."

"This is the best of my last expedition in the Nunavik territory in the northern part of Quebec in Canada. I was alone with the wildlife very far away from everything."

"An aerial image taken from a helicopter over the tidal coastline of northern Australia, ribbon dancer gives the impression of human forms and the flowing water shod the movement of dance."

"The red rorbuer of Hamnøy present themselves in a fresh white dress on this cloudy morning from a classic perspective."

"Courting Silvereyes, New Zealand."

"What could the 'American Dream' have looked like for the Black woman in the 1950’s? Although Black America contributed broadly to popular culture throughout the 20th century, the 1950s were a decidedly 'whitewashed' decade as seen by the mass media at the time. Black women were hardly if at all, portrayed in pop culture.
 
The exclusion of BIPOC communities in the 'American Dream' born of this era can be clearly seen in the media produced at the time. Magazines were a major contributor to this narrative, especially as the concept of the 'Nuclear Family' spread and women were portrayed as housekeepers."

"In reBirth of a City, we find the ever-changing architectural skyline of New York which is sprinkled with wooden water towers. These photos hold on to the one consistent object of New York and for a moment adding the female form subtly softening the skyline."

"The Omo Valley of Ethiopia is home to different tribes who have lived there for centuries. Each of the tribes in this region has a unique culture and way of life. Almost all of the tribes differ in language, clothing, food, and traditions, all of which have developed over millennia."

"Pickup Cowboy, Carter Williams, attempts to catch a loose horse at the Cowpunchers Annual Reunion Rodeo in Arizona, USA."

"Taken in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan. The fox walking in the snowfield looked back."

"Comparison of a man with the real power of nature."

At the beginning of the 21st century, when a sophisticated viewer can rarely be surprised by a bold design or well-organized space, the Soviet metro, whose oldest stations will soon turn 85 years old, continues to amaze and, most importantly, live its own life.
 
Born almost 70 years later than the first metro in the world, the Soviet metro - as its creators called it - immediately eclipsed its foreign 'older brothers'. The young Land of Soviets, which is getting on its feet after the First World War and the revolution, with the opening of the first metropolitan subway in May 1935, as if announced to the whole world about the talents of its engineers, architects and builders, who created not only a modern comfortable transport system but also the greatest work of art. As we did 80 years ago, going underground - in Nizhny Novgorod, Kyiv, Tbilisi or Dnepropetrovsk - we find ourselves in a completely different world, continuing to live our own life, hidden from the sunlight. A world in which, as in the cultural layer of archaeological monuments or medieval chronicles, a vivid kaleidoscope of the history of a huge, long disappeared and turned into a contradictory legend of a great country, national motives of ancient cultures of different republics, events of a state and local scale was captured. The artistic solution of these underground halls is not an exact fixation on past events, but an artistic rethinking of reality through the most complex and polyphonic art form - architecture.
 
The game of geometric volumes of the free era of constructivism, refined Art Deco lines, bitterness and zeal for the victory of wartime stations, the triumphant march of the post-war Empire style, the lightness and functionality of modernism - these are just generalized names of chapters of the long and complex history of Soviet art, the directions and trends of which were clearly manifested in images of underground structures.
 
In his work, Frank Herfort, for the first time refers not only to the stations of the world-famous Moscow Metro but also to the underground structures of 19 cities like St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Minsk, Baku, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Tashkent, Tbilisi and of Yerevan. Objects located thousands of kilometers from each other, created in completely different hydrogeological and cultural-historical conditions, designed for different passenger flows and pursuing different propaganda goals in their artistic solution, are added in Frank's photographs into an integral artistic phenomenon of socialist art. Frank Herforth's new project is not just a fixation of the external and internal appearance of more than 560 Soviet metro stations, it is an independent work of art - the art of photography - inspired by the works of architects, and sculptors, artists and mosaicists of the last century.
 
The author's camera lens here acts not as a mechanism for fixing reality, but as an artist's brush, skillfully snatching elusive but truly precious frames from the whirlpool of everyday life. In Frank's works, famous figure skaters from the medallions of the capital's Dynamo station and cosmonauts from the ceramic panels of the Tashkent Cosmonauts station, the powerful columns of the Golden Gate in Kyiv stylized in the style of Old Russian architecture and the graceful pillars of St. era, revealing the unity of the roots and the originality of each artistic object. Filled with happiness and lightness, airplanes of the industrialization period greet the banner of Victory, full-blooded and well-fed babies of the 30s laugh in unison with their peers of the Thaw era minted from copper, and the pompous Empire chandeliers sparkling with gold and rubies seem to argue about the truth of the light they emit with the cold lamps of the sunset Soviet modernism.
 
Thanks to the sharpness of the author's eyes, the viewer reveals details invisible to the average person, surrealistic combinations, plots full of tragedy and, as if by a red thread, connecting the inhabitants of different cities and the utopian ideals of the collapsed empire that remained in marble and bronze."

"Tribute to Bruno Munari: 'If the square is bound up with a man and his works, with architecture, harmonious structures, writing, and so on, the circle is related to the divine.'"

"The Tsaatan people are legendary reindeer herders who have lived in the snowy forests of Northern Mongolia for ages.
 
They are one of the last remaining groups of nomadic reindeer herders in Mongolia and have been maintaining their traditions for thousands of years. They seasonally migrate within the forests of the Taiga according to weather and food conditions. They migrate to better care for their reindeer, which they depend on for milk and transportation."

"In 2018 I embarked on a trip to southern rural China to learn about the characteristic local traditions that still survive globalization. I went to Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, the richest in ethnic diversity, to find evidence of the different cultural minorities. These regions combine breathtaking landscapes with fascinating typical cultural traditions that I have tried to capture and represent in their essence through my photos.
 
I started from the banks of the Li River, surrounded by limestone hills, where Mr. Huang was fishing with his cormorants on the typical bamboo raft. Cormorant fishing is a very old art that nowadays is being replaced by more modern techniques and there are only a few remaining fishermen in China. Cormorants are trained to stand perched until the fisherman, with a special command, sends them to dive into the water to get fish for him. At sunset, fishermen use a lantern to attract fish. I continued my trek along the peaceful dimension of rice fields, between local farmers and Yao villages. Mr. Pan and his wife invited me to see their characteristic wooden Yao house and showed me their daily typical lifestyle.
 
In the remote mountains of Guizhou, I met the Miao population, the largest ethnic minority in China. The Longhorn Miao tribes wear traditional costumes and characteristic headdresses on the occasion of their local festivals: they wrap their hair in wool, ancestral hair and black thread around a wooden horn with an embedded comb."

"This image has been shot at Lake Las Vegas during a concert on a floating stage. It shows the audience floating in innertubes, during the 'Country in The Cove' concert."

"Inspired by the magic and beauty that can occur when mixing elements that were at home and my grandmother. Colors, dreams and her life filled the photograph with a special touch."

"Starring nights and high solar energy presented a show during the night in Iceland."

"There's always something going on in Washington Square Park. A great place to jog, read or just observe. Both the winter prepping fat squirrels or innovative, well-trained performers and life artists. This performer rode his bike around the fountain with a trash can on his head. I asked him if he could also do this as a living statue on one foot in just the right place and light. For this well-trained great artist a piece of cake. With such a commitment quickly come a few hundred dollars a day together. Congratulations again."

"Children are dancing with gongs at a festival of Jrai ethnic minorities in Gia Lai, Vietnam. They were taught to sing and dance at an early age by their parents and grandparents. Although still young, these children danced like professional dancers. They are very fun and happy."

"Created over a couple of years working and living in Kenya.

The image is the highlight of years spent in one of my favorite corners of the world, one that breeds creativity and originality, a place I shall forever consider a second home."

"These two sub-adult Humpback whales dance and play in the clear waters of French Polynesia."

"The first descriptions of cormorant fishing date back to 600CE in Japan and China. Originally practiced for sustenance, it is nowadays under threat and mainly performed for tourists. Few fishermen can still be found. They fight back and try to save this centuries-old tradition."

"I made this portrait of 12-year-old Ajitha while he was busy guarding a tribe of goat on the outskirts of Hampi (Karnataka, India). When I smiled and asked him, 'Do you go to school?' (in Kannada, the local language), he smiled back warmly and said, 'No...' That 'NO' still hasn't left my mind. Was it a happy no, or a sad no, we'll never know."

"Sometimes luxury is like light and shadow. The light side of life and the dark. We should not forget that everything can turn very quickly."

"In this series, I wanted to work around the definition of a 'seed'. It's the main survival organ in seed plants and a necessity for the cycles of reproduction. You can see them as small embryos enclosed in a shell covering. They are the product of the matured mother plant, and the development often starts in the fruit itself. In nature, they get dispersed by the plant itself, wind, water or animals. With the use of optical glass, I wanted to put the focus on a few of them to grab the viewer's attention."

"Tiny Range Rover in epic landscapes. Shot in Iceland, Sweden, Utah and Arizona."

"I entered the photo contest because I wanted to show the whole world the beauty of insects. And that the viewer is really amazed by how cool are insects."

"Charcoal Pizza, Sourdough Pizza, Anytime Pizza."

"The very first idea of this project crossed my mind when I was at my mother’s grave, being preoccupied with her death and feeling of missing her. There is a magnificent and stunning bitter orange tree at her grave, and I feel its leaves root in my mother’s spirit. I literally have multiple feelings about this tree, such as love, fear, and ambiguity! I named this set 'Dead Leaves' to depict beauty and death at the same time.
 
I was very fortunate to start this project in Autumn when I could use beautiful Autumn leaves for the background in the photos. This set is indeed a pattern of natural objects with many details! I embedded some needles in leaves to exemplify determinism, e.g., birth and death which are not our choices but rather given to us.
 
It is worth noting that this set includes some taxidermied insects and animals that I borrowed from my friends, and I genuinely love the environment.
 
Beautiful and colored butterflies with needles embedded in their bodies were placed alongside lifeless leaves. It may seem at first glance that they are alive, but as one looks at them more precisely, they can recognize impaired wings and butterflies collapsed on lifeless leaves."

"Synthesis isn't being used at all."

"Synthesis isn't being used at all."
 
 

"Through photographing emotions, I form a direct connection to people and can see how each person adapts and blends into nature, and I find the combination of these two elements very interesting. For me, nudity reveals a person in their own natural, genuine and open state which has to be seen as more than something superficial. It’s also a state in which a person is at their most vulnerable, and that should be respected. In my photographs, and especially in this series, seeing a person in their most natural state, together with the natural element of water, is important to me, as is the fact that my subjects can be free."

"Vivienne makes a mess eating pasta."

"This small statue is called 'The Sea, the great sculptor' and is placed on a breakwater at the Belgium coast."

"The Minds of 99 show at the national stadium in Denmark playing for 50.000 people. The biggest show in Europa after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minds of 99 gave people an experience they won't forget soon."

"Dolls are not just toys. In the eyes of little girls, they can appear as living beings. Sometimes they take on the role of a friend who understands the girls' tears or a bad mood. Or a friend that will always keep a secret safe. However, sometimes they can get a negative role and help the girl to express emotions that she would not otherwise be able to express."

"In Italy, wearing face masks has become compulsory as soon as COVID-19 was identified: it was February 2020 and we are still using masks one year and a half later, especially in our daily work environment and when meeting other people indoors.
 
As a photographer, I have been intrigued by how my brain (and, in general, the human brain) seemed to re-construct an ideal image of those strangers we met in our everyday life, trying to fill that 'square void' caused by the face masks.
 
This project is part of an anthology of portraits of people living or working in my town (Fontaniva, a very small town in Northern Italy) represented as a microcosm and synecdoche of our time. Each and every portrait in this series has its own story to tell."

"Worldwide Campaign for the Porsche GT3 RS shot on the Estoril Racetrack in Portugal."

"Made in 3D and Photoshop."

"Dedicated to my fascination with Astronomy, the attraction I feel for this science, the universe and the various stars has pushed me to create this series of photographs.
 
I simulate the lunar terrain, with sand creating craters and meteorites, where gastronomic elements impact. The main protagonist lighting in this very elegant and studied collection combines red light with blue giving volume and movement to the celestial bodies. Image of great beauty that makes me reflect on the unknown."

"Photoshoot in the studio taking great care of the lighting to bring out the character and volumes of the new Cupra Formentor."

"This image is a part of a series exploring the motions of drink making. Drink styling by Flossy McAslan!"

"Worldwide Campaign for the new Porsche Boxster. Shot in Norway and Italy."

"Progressive Commercial campaign."

"Tasked with the challenge of shooting KFC from a unique and different perspective, we came up with a very clean look and feel for their 50th birthday store."