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This cavernous photograph by Matthias Hakker of art nouveau architecture mixes monochrome with flashes of yellow. Gothic-inspired, Haker’s symmetrical composition spotlights the stucco detailing of the ceiling in a warm, yellow light.
In this shot of Table Rock in Niagara Falls, Darwin displays his powers as a landscape photographer. He has captured the water falling using a long exposure, the effect is as if you are standing on the edge. In the distance, a bright sun partially breaks through the clouds while fog gets trapped below.
This electric nightscape of cars passing under, through and over a motorway system is a stunning example of the beautiful inherent in our civil engineering. Using a long exposure and filtering the image in black and white, Wada captures the movement of the night as a hectic mess of white lights.
This image was shot during a late night shoot capturing the aurora borealis over the Jökulsárlón glacial lake in Iceland. The dancing Northern Lights play over the colossal ice calved from the glacier beyond.
This photograph of a man chasing a bus on a rainy day is a powerful image in which Lin sums up the idea of ‘never giving up’. Elegantly composed, Lin uses the flashes of the long-exposure to hone in on the single man, drawing our eye into the single man running down the middle of the street.
Titled ‘Westside Highway’ after the famous New York motorway, this work doesn’t aim to provide us with a photographic record of the road, but a feeling of its atmosphere. The blurred chromatic spots are evocative of street lights, buses and glowing signs protruding into the night.
As if a painting, the striations of green and purple are a testament to the beauty of nature. Hamish captures the image in stunning details, even down to the millions of tiny stars that litter the night sky.
“Light on Water” depicts how beauty in nature can come in the simplest of forms. Sun rays sparkling on a body of water. The lens is taken intentionally out of focus to enhance the dream-like qualities of the image.
San Francisco Pier 7 is a popular spot for some serious crab fishing at night and offers spectacular and romantic views of the city with the twinkling lights.
Only possible with special permission, Howard shot this from a helicopter over the Palace of Westminster at sunrise in 2015.