/ 2025 / Nature / Water

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yukio Nodo, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  26th April 2025
• Website
  https://www.yukionodo.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/negiasatsuki/

Amidst a flooded forest wrapped in mist, time seemed to dissolve. There was no wind, no sound—only the quiet presence of water, trees, and one solitary paddler. Facing a lone tree, the figure did not appear to move forward, but to pause—as if in silent conversation. In that stillness, the boundary between self and nature faded, and what remained was a moment of balance: between breath and reflection, movement and meditation. This was not a scene to be seen, but a space to be felt—like a whisper from a world beyond thought.

I am a Japan-based landscape and nightscape photographer. My work explores landscapes not simply as scenery, but as places shaped by the quiet interplay of light, time, and the broader rhythms of nature. I am drawn to moments where the movements of the Earth and the sky intersect with traces of human presence. Rather than seeking dramatic spectacle, I focus on subtle transitions: how light shifts and how time settles into the land. Photography, for me, is a way of tracing these invisible layers and preserving fleeting relationships between the Earth, the sky, and the places we inhabit.

Awards Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2025
- Finalist, Best Single Images in a Portfolio (Landscape, Weather & Climate)

Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2025
- Gold Winner, Editorial / Environmental - "White Wounds"
- Gold Winner, Nature / Trees - "Ephemeral Dialogues"
- Silver Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Rocks on Earth Dream of Stars"

Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2025
- Silver Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Arch of The Ancients"
- Bronze Winner, Nature / Astrophotography - "Where Time Sleeps"
- Bronze Winner, Architecture / Industrial - "White Wounds"

Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) 2025
- Bronze Winner, Nature / Water - "The Passage of Trials"
- Bronze Winner, Press / Nature & Environmental - "White Wounds"

Vixen 6th Starry Sky Photo Contest 2025
- Award of Excellence - "Orion Lands on the Snowy Peaks"