Gold in Nature/Panoramic / 2026 / Nature / Panoramic
Icon: Panoramas of Stillness
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PrizeGold in Nature/Panoramic
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PhotographerFrank Chan, Hong Kong
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Date of Photograph2025
A panorama is not a wider photograph. It is a slower one. The eye cannot take it in at a glance; it must travel, the way the land itself unfolds. I photograph in long exposure on a Hasselblad medium format system, then let the frame open to its full horizontal reach. The karst mountains of Guilin recede into mist at first light; Lake Toya holds its islands between water and cloud. Nothing hurries. In this format, scale becomes silence, and what remains is the long quiet of the natural world at its most composed.
