30 Photographs of the Most Beautiful Places in the World

The winners of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition will make you long to travel

Tenderly
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4 min readJan 20, 2021

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Chosen from an impressive array of entrants, the International Landscape Photographer of the Year award winners will make you look with fresh eyes at the planet we live on and the myriad different ways it finds to be beautiful. The year’s overall winner was Hong Kong photographer Kelvin Yuen, whose gorgeous portfolio of landscapes from Norway to Italy to Utah showed a truly impressive depth and variety.

Out of the 3,800 submissions, 101 photos were singled out for special recognition, and this selection of images—which ranges from volcanoes in Indonesia to icebergs in Greenland to canyons in Utah—makes for an awe-inspiring testament to the endless beauty and variety of the planet we call home.

1. ‘Northern Forest’ by Zhu Xiao

A fine art photograph of a bare tree on a desert landscape, crowned by a sky full of stars
Kola Peninsula, Russia.

2. ‘Hintersee on Fire’ by Alexander Lauterbach

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Jack Shepherd
Tenderly

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