/ 2025 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yvonne Denman, United States
• Date of Photograph
  April 20, 2025
• Studio
  Yvonne Denman Photography
• Website
  https://www.yvonnedenmanphotoart.com/
• Instagram
  https://instagram.com/yvonnedenmanphotoart

A Dutch windmill, erected in 1740, is silhouetted against a fading twilight sky, where hues of lavender, rose, and deepening blue melt into one another. The quiet landscape is reflected perfectly in the still waters below, providing a mirror-like reflection of this painterly scene.

My work explores the landscape and environment as a sensory experience rather than as documentation. I am interested in how color and atmosphere shape perception, allowing a place to be felt, remembered, and internalized. Beauty is not treated as an endpoint, but as a language; one capable of carrying meaning, restraint, and emotional depth. Through color, atmosphere, and softened form, I translate the felt experience of place.

Awards Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3), 2025

Bronze Award, Nature – Domestic Animals
Honorable Mention, Fine Art – Landscape
Honorable Mention, Fine Art – Abstract
Honorable Mention, Nature – Landscape

reFocus Color Awards, 2025 — Bronze Award
Abstract
Honorable Mention, Architecture
Finalist, Minimalism
Finalist, Nature

International Photography Awards (IPA), 2025
Honorable Mention, Travel
Official Selection, Architecture

Berlin Photo Awards, 2025, Finalist, Nature