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This month (September 2025), the winners will be announced in the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards. This is a competition I have not entered before, but was prompted (with some effort on his behalf) to do so by one of my Australian colleagues. Initially somewhat suspicious (so many of these competitions are nothing more than money-grabbing opportunities for the organisers), I gulped down my reservations and read with increasing interest that this competition is strictly ‘as-shot’ without allowing significant post-production. While many competitions espouse this virtue, it has been my experience that when push comes to shove, most simply don’t care and don’t even bother to check the entrants’ RAW files. This competition felt different, or perhaps more aptly, it felt authentic in its ideology, so I decided to enter a few of my favourite landscape photographs and was very pleased to receive the news that all of them have made the finals! Over 11,000 photographs were entered into the competition, so I am very thrilled to have made the final round of judging. More to come once the winners are announced later this month.