TDS Open Competition Winner

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Another World was taken at Námafjall, Mývatn, Iceland.

This image just missed out on Picture of the Day at the Photography Cafe, but managed to come top of the Monthly open photography competition at “The Digital Site”

Mick (the reviewer of the competition) had this to say:

Iceland is a place I have always wanted to visit and this image helps to illustrate why. The place truly is like another world of dramatic volcanoes, waterfalls and glaciers…amazing stuff. A quick google tells me that the Hverir solfatare field is one of the largest in Iceland…an area where sulphurous vapours rise through the earth’s crust and create the scene we see here. We can clearly see yellow sulphur deposits in the foreground. This scene is very well composed and the viewer’s eye is taken through the landscape to the distant lonely figures, the steamy vapours rising from below, the distant snow-capped mountains and the wonderfully dramatic sky. This is a truly stunning image which I like very much and it is my personal favourite in this comp.