/ 2025 / Special / Night Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Samuele Bertoli, Italy
• Website
  https://www.inmywayphotosam.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/ingsamu/

Took at Sparavalle, a small fort guard in the Apennines near Reggio Emilia, Italy, in July 2023. The pleasant company of fireflies gave the scene a mystical and magical aura. Composition was thought to provide the idea of many fairies flocking to the boarding gate of an imaginary intergalactic space station to faraway lands. A tribute to the Elves departing from the Middle Earth from Grey Havens

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Because my nature is prone to storytelling, this burning need to photograph and tell comes from deep within myself.
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I have always had the tendency and presumption to tell what strikes me about the world as my eyes see it.
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