Honorable Mention / 2024 / Nature / Sky

Starry Night in Death Valley

During the onset of the Covid pandemic, I found myself in the United States of America for the first time. For a long time, I had desired to observe the night sky in Death Valley. I ventured out on March 7th at 4:00 in the morning to capture this photograph, composed of 8 shots of the sky and 8 shots of the ground later merged in post-production. What emerged was truly stunning; indeed, the signal of the Milky Way was incredibly strong and seemed to trace the shapes of the desert dunes in the Californian Death Valley.

My name is Maurizio Casula, I live in Sardinia, in a touristic town (Pula) with 7000 people. I’m born in Cagliari on 14th September 1985, and in 2002 I’d graduated in ad graphic on pc. I’ve always had the this passion about informatics and photography since I was a kid, but with the incoming of digital photography, I’ve been amazed about the chance to take pictures and post process them straight away. Since I was a kid I always used my parents camera, a polaroid. Years later I've bought various cameras before the DSRL. There’s no day I can live without photography giving all of myself to this

Awards 2016 - Shortlist Finalist, Open, Panoramic, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

2017 - Top rated entries in the Exposure Awards 2017 Lens Culture

2017 - Finalist Landscape/ Nature -Siena International Photography Awards

2017- Winner Cat. Mountain Water - Ims Photo Contest 2017

2018 - Finalist Hipa "The Moment" - General Category (Colour)

2018 - Finalist Landscape/ Nature - Siena International Photography Awards

2018 - Winner - Nature-Panoramic - MIFA Moscow International Photo Awards

2018 - Finalist 3th - Open-Panoramic - Epson Panonoramic Photo Awards

2020 - Gold Winner - Nature-Panoramic - MIFA Moscow International Photo Awards

2022 - Gold Winner - Nature-Panoramic - MIFA Moscow International Photo Awards

MENZIONI D'ONORE

IPA 2016 : IPA 2016 Honorable Mention / Title: Enchanted valley Categories. Nature : Landscapes

IPA 2019 OneShot : Movement Honorable Mention Title:The Submarine Categories: OneShot : Movement, Nature

MIFA 2020 Honorable Mention Awarded to: Title: The Elements Of Nature CATEGORY: Nature-Landscapes / Professional