Honorable Mention / 2024 / Nature / Landscape

• Photographer
  Hirotaka Shindo, Japan

This photograph captures the beautiful nature of Sado Island in Japan. The foreground features an impressive field of yellow flowers in full bloom, while a distinctively shaped mountain towers in the background. To create a dramatic effect, I used a graduated ND filter to control the exposure of the sky and a ND filter for a 167-second long exposure to add motion to the clouds.