Sunday, November 9, 2025

13 good panoramic pictures from the 2025 Epson Worldwide Pano awards


The winners of the 2025 Epson Worldwide Pano awards have been introduced, showcasing images of our nice, massive, stunning world in ultra-wide glory. Italy’s Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) gained the Open Photographer of the Yr and the Nature/Panorama class for his fine-art landscapes (seen above and beneath). Amongst this yr’s 3,423 entries, there have been extra images of the Northern Lights than typical, coinciding with the 11-year photo voltaic cycle most.  

‘Final Fireworks’ is the primary place class and open competitors total winner. Describing Final Fireworks, Wides mentioned, “Because the solar went down, the sky actually  exploded. Layer after layer of clouds lit up, portray the desert with fireplace and gold.  Utilizing my Sony A7 IV with a fisheye lens on a tripod, I captured a full multi publicity sequence at f/8 and ISO 100, rotating rigorously across the nodal level  to create a seamless 360° panorama.”  Picture: Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.

“The Pano Awards entries are all the time distinctive and this yr the creativity has actually been taken to the following  stage,” Epson Australia Managing Director Craig Heckenberg mentioned in a press launch. “It’s nice to see so many extra huge and ultra-wide panoramic pictures this  yr, a format near our hearts, as they can be actually and correctly  represented by Epson wide-format photograph printers. The Pano awards entrants are  an inspiration for all photographers of all ability ranges. At Epson we pleasure ourselves  on embodying innovation and creativity, therefore why we proceed to assist and  sponsor these distinctive awards.” 

Extra class winners and different awe-inspiring panoramic pictures are beneath. (Click on to broaden pictures to full display.)

wide brown mountains with snow caped mountains in the distance
Kevin Nyun gained Novice Photographer of the Yr for 3 entries together with, ‘The Altiplano Panorama taken in Bolivia. Picture: Kevin Nyun / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a green and red aurora over a geothermal field
‘Hverarönd Aurora’ gained first place within the VR/360 images class. Christoph Simon of Germany snapped this picture of the aurora borealis over the Hverarönd geothermal space in Iceland.  Picture: Christoph Simon / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards. 
three women wearing bamboo sun hats fix fishing nets
Daniel Viñé Garcia from Spain gained the Epson Digital Artwork Prize with ‘Tides of Custom’ taken in Hoi An, Vietnam. Commenting on his picture, Viñé says , “On this coastal village of Vietnam, survival is  woven in silence. These ladies, working in morning shade and salt-laden air,  are the unseen guardians of sustenance. The nets they mend will not be mere instruments,  however lifelines binding sea and group collectively.”  Picture: Daniel Viñé Garcia/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a circular, vertical overhead shot of hong kong
Vitaly Golovatyuk was awarded the most effective aerial pano for this photograph of Hong Kong known as ‘Not A Tiny HK Island.’ Picture: Vitaly Golovatyuk /The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
blue, pink, yellow, green, and purple flower petals
In ‘Varied Flowers,’ patterns captured by polarized gentle after hydrolysis and crystallization. Picture: Yuan Ji / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a small lizard next to a large sleeping lion
A small lizard with a big lion within the Serengeti of Tanzania in ‘The Lion Whisperer.’ Picture: Marina Cano/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a tall snow capped mountain with a field of purple flowers and tall evergreen trees below
Chris Byrne gained the Curator’s Award for this peaceable picture of Mount Rainier in Washington State titled ‘Elysium.’ Picture: Chris Byrne/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards
a humpback whale underwater with an island in the background
A humpback whale in Tonga swims by an island in ‘The Whales Welcome.’ Picture: Matthew Smith/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
fireflies in a forest
In ‘Shining within the Silence,’ fireflies glow in Taiwan.  Picture: Shirley Wung/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
the sun rises over snow capped white mountains. a rainbow is surrounding one of the mountains
The solar rises over Lofoten, Norway alongside a colourful rainbow in ‘Lofoten Dawn.’ Picture: Stefan Liebermann/ The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a close up of a bee on a yellow flower
‘Forest of Yellow’ contains a close-up of pollination in motion in Idaho. Picture:Brian Clopp / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.
a green aurora over a snowy valley
‘Jackpot’ was taken in Rago Nationwide Park, Norway. Alex says, “After ending excursions on Senja Island, I hiked as much as the  shoot location hoping for an excellent climate window. After I opened the tent on the  final attempt, I hit the Jackpot. The sky exploded in a spectacular half hour of Northern  Lights. This was an ideal reward after years of ready.”  Picture: Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) / The sixteenth Epson Worldwide Pano Awards.

 

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