Flames of Ice

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Other
• Photographer
  Mieke Boynton, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  9 September, 2018
• Studio
  Mieke Boynton Photography
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.alpinelight.com.au

When Icelandic glacial melt-water wends its way out across vast, black-sand river deltas towards the ocean, it interacts with elements such as sulphur and iron, creating colours almost impossible to believe. When viewed from 1500ft above, these braided rivers are truly breath-taking.

• Biography
  Mieke Boynton is a specialist landscape and aerial photographer who runs a landscape photography gallery with her partner Matt Palmer in Bright, Victoria, Australia. Mieke's distinctive abstracts are taken from chartered helicopters and light planes, flying over some of the most remote and fascinating areas of Australia, Iceland and New Zealand, and her landscape photographs from all over the world celebrate the breath-taking beauty of nature.
• Awards
  2023 - Top 10, World Photographic Cup (Landscape) 2023 - NZIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022 - Asia Pacific Photography Awards - Landscape winner 2022 - NZIPP Australian Landscape (in-Camera) Photographer of the Year 2021 - NZIPP International Photographer of the Year 2021 - Maitre de la Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (MFIAP) 2019 - Epson International Pano Awards Photographer of the Year 2019 - AIPP Victorian Landscape Photographer of the Year