GDT Nature Photographer of the Year

Quite an amazing photo for sure.

"The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has announced the winner of its prestigious GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition. The 2024 winner is Dieter Damschen for his photo Winter flood in a riparian forest. “Winter is my favorite time of year, and one of my favored motifs is the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Elbe River Landscape,” Damschen explains.” I often visit this hardwood riparian forest in the fore land of the dyke to take photographs at fixed points with lines of sight that reveal carefully selected compositions.” While the photographer has spent a lot of time in this forest and captured many images over the years, he says he is “regularly surprised” by how different the location can appear in various conditions."