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25 hanging images from the 2023 Milky Approach Photographer of the 12 months contest

  • Seize The Atlas has revealed its annual Milky Approach Photographer of the 12 months shortlist.
  • The 2023 closing 25 images have been taken from 16 nations internationally. 
  • From night time skies in nationwide parks to distant islands, the chosen entrees are definitely hanging.

Journey pictures weblog Seize The Atlas has revealed the sixth version of its annual Milky Approach Photographer of the 12 months, and the images are spectacular.

The gathering includes 25 images of the Milky Approach taken from 16 nations world wide, together with the US, Australia, Madagascar, Switzerland, and Japan, in response to a press launch. The ultimate 25 images have been chosen from greater than 3,000 candidates, the press launch added.

Dan Zafra, editor-in-chief of Seize The Atlas, instructed Insider that lots of the closing images have been all taken in distinctive areas the place the Milky Approach hadn’t been photographed earlier than.

“A couple of examples are the photographs from Socotra, a distant island within the Indian Ocean that’s vastly unexplored, or the picture from Madagascar, the place photographer Steffi Lieberman needed to {photograph} with armed guards,” Zafra mentioned. 

“Extra areas embody a really distant space in Spain known as Serrania de Cuenca, the place only some photographers have ventured, and all the unique landscapes from Namibia and New Zealand,” he added.

Check out all of the gorgeous photographs under.