Fine Art Photography Awards 2024

The Fine Art Photography Awards is a photography competition that has been held 10 times.

In the 2024 edition, there were 5,075 images eligible for evaluation by a highly respected jury.
The contest also has professional and amateur categories, and within these categories there is a huge variety of subcategories such as landscape, nature, photojournalism, panoramic, night photography, and more.
This was the first time I entered this contest, with seven images.
I received two honorable mentions and one bronze medal.

Milky Way - Bolivia

The photograph that won the bronze medal in the panoramic category was taken at the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

The Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert in the world and has one of the best skies in the world for stargazing, due to its size and distance from light pollution.
During the rainy season, small amounts of rain flood the salt flats, creating a huge reflective surface.
The perfect conditions were thus gathered to take an epic picture!

The photograph that was nominated in the travel category was taken in 2024 during an expedition to Guatemala.
The Fuego volcano is constantly active.
To get “face to face” with the Fuego volcano, you have to hike for almost a day to get within 2 km (as the crow flies) of the volcano.
It is an experience that even those who are not photographers and have the opportunity should not miss.

Standing face to face with an erupting volcano, at a safe distance, is something that will remain in your memory for the rest of your life.

The other photograph that was nominated, in the landscape category, was taken in 2023 in Indonesia.
It is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular volcanic landscapes in Indonesia and the world.

In the center of the caldera are Mount Bromo, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, Bartok, a dormant volcano, and in the background, Mount Semeru, accompanied by the Milky Way at the top of the image.