Photo © Deryk Baumgärtner

Honorable Mention: Travel
Germany
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Found this lonesome hiker inside the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes (Death Valley National Park) while he leaves his footprints in the sand.
Author: I’am based in Cologne / Germany and my journey into photography actually started way before I picked up a camera. I was actually always into art and drawing and that’s pretty much what I was focused on throughout school.
As a photographer I love the challenge of trying to include just enough subjects into the frame to plant a seed of a story and then make the viewer to imagine the rest. I want my viewers to feel like they are right in the middle of the scene. My goal is to translate the excitement I felt at that time into a truly compelling image.