/ 2025 / Nature / Flowers

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Fereshteh Moghaddas, United Kingdom

Spring is the season of quiet miracles, After the long hush of winter, the world begins to stir softly at first, like a whispered promise. Buds swell on tree branches, tentative and trembling with potential. Beneath the soil, roots stretch, waking from sleep, preparing to nourish new life.
There is a freshness in the air that can't be defined, only felt. It's in the scent of damp earth and the light that lingers just a little longer each evening. Growth returns not just in nature, but in spirit of hope, of rebirth of beginnings.
Spring reveals that life never really stops it only pauses

For most of my life, I devoted myself to nursing, yet photography was my true, unspoken obsession. It was never just about taking pictures—it was about making a statement, about capturing something that went beyond the surface. Over time, I’ve realized that it’s not financial gain that drives me; it’s the urge to be seen, to evoke a thought, a reflection, a spark within others. I create not for profit, but for the fleeting moment when someone looks at my work and sees something that moves them, something that makes them think.