Landscapes: Honorable Mention 2022 (amateur)
Full band of our galaxy and its reflection by Hua Zhu (United States)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This milky way panorama picture was stitched from 18 photos. It was taken in June, 2022 in Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia. A perfect condition is required to obtain this image: 1) low full band of milky way; 2) low water level on salt flats; 3) clear sky; 4) no wind. Fortunately, I had a perfect night!
AUTHOR
For more than 20 years, Hua Zhu traveled all over the world. His group pictures won the gold medal in the "Foreigners Looking at Beijing" photography competition; his wide-format works in Banff won the only annual grand award in the 5th Sony Natural Color Annual Competition; in 2017, he was invited to participate in the first global Chinese Photography Art Exhibition and served as a judge and a special lecture guest on photography; in 2017 and 2019, he held two personal photography exhibitions at the China Photography Exhibition Hall of the Chinese Photographers Society; his "Night Lights" was selected by National Geographic Photo of the Day for January 1, 2018. Some of his photos were posted on: https://1x.com/huazhu.
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