Timo Lieber

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Epson Int. Pano Awards - Photographer of the Year

Posted on 6th September 2013

Above is the winning image of this year’s Epson International Pano Awards, a competition which showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest competition of its kind. I spent several weeks on a project in California at the end of last year and the opportunity to photograph the state's beautiful landscapes came as an added bonus. Studying the route for the way back from Death Valley, I figured that one desert was never enough and headed for Dumont Dunes. A building sand storm chased away a group of dune riders, who obligingly left behind curved tracks providing additional structure to the dunes pattern.

Featured photo - Frozen Wave

Posted on 10th March 2013

I have just returned from an amazing trip to the Lofoten Islands in Arctic Norway with a couple of fellow photographers. The Lofoten Islands are a landscape photographer’s dream – rugged coast with abrupt peaks rising directly from the ocean, small fishing villages nestled in fjords… This particular image was taken on a remote beach called Haukland beach and depicts a wave pattern washed into the fresh snow from the incoming tide. I had seen similar patterns before but none as symmetrical and well placed as this one. I had to be quick setting up all my gear as the pattern got washed away by the waves shortly after. The image is a good example of how...

Featured photo - Basking in the Northern lights

Posted on 1st November 2012

Northern lights will never stop to amaze me. I have seen them many times by now but this particular moment was special – beautiful red and green Aurora lights dancing above a single iceberg in Arctic Greenland. I hiked to this particular spot, 250km north of the Arctic Circle, a few nights in a row in the hope of a good display – and finally got the shot I was after. To give a sense of scale – the ice wall is probably just under 80m in height.