/ 2025 / Nature / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Xinyue Jia, France
• Date of Photograph
  17/09/2024
• Studio
  XyJ Pic
• Website
  https://www.xyjphotography.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/eggyjpic/

Along the coast of Lofoten lies many reefs with odd shapes and extremely vivid colors. There was this one diamond shaped little pool framing the red stone like a relic on an altar. A tempest was about to happen, with the wind screaming and the clouds bruising the air. But in this shallow water, it looked like a covenant between land and sea: violence and stillness, erosion and eternity, written in blood and brine.

I am a photographer currently based in France, specialising in landscape storytelling and lifestyle pictures. Photography has transformed my life in profound ways. I see and find beauty everywhere, and I am beyond happy to memorise those precious moments through my camera frame.