/ 2026 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Naoko Tanaka, United States
• Date of Photograph
  February 23, 2025
• Instagram
  @chunktank

"El Dorado, don't you think?" One of my skating buddies whispered as we were gliding. "Mystical", I replied. To him this was a utopia, to me this was a magical place. It gave a sense of loneliness and quietness because of the thick mist, but what we encountered as we skated was nothing but mesmerizing. This is a journey that you can experience when you skate through frozen lakes in Sweden. A little rain provides smooth surface of ice, which gave me euphoric sensation as if we can skate through forever.