Before leaving 2021 behind, photography awards continue to find their owners. This week, the ‘best nature scenery photos of 2021’ were announced. These photographs, in which the natural beauties of the world we live in, were conveyed in the most beautiful way, took the breath of the beholders.
Today, a new one has been added to the photography awards of 2021. The awards, called ‘Historic Photographer of the Year’, share fascinating images of structures that are important parts of human history. Each of the photos from different places looks like they belong to other planets or come out of a movie. Let’s take a look at the breathtaking frames of 2021.
General category winner: Steve Liddiard
Steve Liddiard won the award for his photograph of the Whiteford Lighthouse on the Gower Peninsula in southern Wales.
Juliann Elliott
Elliott’s award-winning Shah-i Zinda photograph reflects a frame from the necropolis in Samarkand, northeast of Uzbekistan.
Adam Burton
Adam Burton is located on the Glastonbury Tor hill in England. He managed to win one of the ‘photo of the year’ awards with his photo of Michael’s Tower.
Guy Sargent
The warship HMS Belfast began service in 1938 and was retired in the 1970s. Guy Sargent was one of the winners for his photograph of the ship, which is currently used as a museum on the River Thames in London.
Mary Payne
Mary Payne is one of the winners of the award with her photograph of the Leicester Guildhall, England, which has a 600-year history.
Yevhen Samuchenko
The US Navy plane C-117D, which crashed in northern Iceland in 1973, photographed by Yevhen Samuchenko, brings the cosmos and human history face to face.
Andrew McCaren
Andrew McCaren shares a shot of the lighthouse in Scarborough, England.
Elizabeth Hak
Elizabeth Hak won the award for her heartwarming photograph of Esztergom Basilica in Hungary.
Sam Binding
The award-winning photograph of Sam Binding reflects a view from the historic Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England.
Tom McNally
A mine called Nenthead Mines in England is also home to a historic brewery. Tom McNally also shares a frame from this factory with us.
Andrew McCaren
McCaren, who won two awards, shares a famous cruise ship called MV Western Belle in England’s Ullswater lake in this photo.
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh captures the history of England’s Reculver Towers in a magnificent frame.
Jean-Claude Thelen
Jean-Claude Thelen managed to receive the award with a shot she captured from the Foggintor quarry in England.
Paul Harris
In this frame taken by Paul Harris, we see the Twenty Bridge’s bridge in Wigan, England.
Iain McCallum
The photograph of the place known as the ‘Purton Ships Cemetery’ near the Severn River in England also managed to be one of the best historical photographs of 2021.
Alfredo Corrao
Another award-winning photograph was the Temple of Hera, one of the ancient temples of Greece.
Graham Harries
The award-winning photo of Graham Harries came from Chernobyl. This abandoned region of Ukraine is undoubtedly a big part of human history.
Wayne Budge
Photographed by Wayne Budge, this shot reflects the pathetic history of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. The atomic bomb detonated on the monument, also known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, somehow left this structure intact.