The 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year

Join the Top 101 in the International Landscape Photography Book 2025! Enter now!
The competition closes on 7 October 2025, and the 'every 5th entry free' offer closes on 30 September 2025
No AI-generated images are allowed. Photographs must have been taken after 1 January 2020.
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Winning a photography competition is part skill and part luck. Skill and artistry are required for obvious reasons, but to be considered the very best from a cast of thousands comes down to what the judging panel 'likes'. There's nothing wrong with this approach - we all like the chance to be winners - but it's also why we celebrate the Top 101 landscape photographs, not just first, second and third.

Within a portfolio of 101 photographs, judges can reward a wide range of images, from single captures to imaginative composites. We don't believe it's up to us to limit what photographers can and can't do - as long as it is photography. Send us your best work and let our judges decide whether you deserve a page in the top 101 landscape photographs of the year.

This is our twelfth year of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards and the main aim of our Award is for you to have one or more of your entries accepted into the Top 101 landscape photographs of the year. This gives you a place in our exclusive book which is published online and can be purchased as a 'real' hard-cover paper publication as well.

There is a total of US$12,500 in cash prizes, trophies and printed copies of the book for the major prize winners.

So, what's the process? Your job is to impress our five judges, including last year's winner Andrew Mielzynski. And the entry process is easy - just size your photo to 4000-5000 pixels on the longest side, save it as a JPEG/JPG and upload it. The entry fee remains unchanged at US$25 per image, and if you enter by 30 September 2025, every fifth entry is free. Final entries are accepted until 7 October 2025.

When the competition closes, our judges will use calibrated monitors to judge each photograph, giving it a score out of 100. Judges can open each and every entry and view it pixel for pixel on their monitor if required - and this is invariably done before they give their higher scores. Technique and craft are just as important as creativity for the top awards.

Once the first round of judging is completed, the top scoring 101 photos are selected and checked to ensure they comply with the rules (not taken before 1 January 2020 for example) and that there are not two or more photographs by the same photographer that are very similar (we are looking for variety). There is also a limit on the number of photographs a single entrant can have in the Top 101 - no more than four, just to share the experience around. We then move into the next round of judging, as outlined in our rules. The judges are engaged a second time to determine the Photographer of the Year (1st, 2nd, 3rd), the Photograph of the Year (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and five special subject awards. This can take two or even three rounds of scoring and comment before the judges come up with their final result.

We hope you enjoy getting your entries ready for our twelfth Awards and the best of luck!

Peter Eastway and David Evans

International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

Image: Image by Cong Vu from Pixabay