3/16/2023 0 Comments Grand canyon aerial view![]() ![]() Heartfelt feelings on the road always bring me different inspirations, perspectives, and appreciations of our planet.Ģ022 Amateur Photographer of the Year Florian Kriechbaumer, UAE I believe the most powerful photos come from one’s heart instead of one’s brain. I dedicate myself to capturing their precious but hidden beauty. As a landscape photographer, I’m always passionate about exploring majestic Chinese landscapes rarely known to western photographers. It is very special for me to get recognised for the works shot in my childhood hometown Xinjiang, China. I’m deeply honoured to receive 2022 Epson Pano Award as Open Photographer of the Year. ![]() Nature is an artist, and it reminds me of an abstract painting. I operated my drone to capture these 90 degrees aerial view photos at 40 appropriate points (5 rows and 8 columns) of the canyon in order to get whole canyon aerial view. ![]() For tens of millions of years, the melting snow water of Tianshan Glacier has torn open the chest of the vast Gobi like a Hummer, and formed this natural landscape under the movement of the earth’s crust and the erosion of wind and rain. I traveled to Xinjiang last year and took this photo in Dushanzi Grand Canyon, a geological wonder. I urge President Obama to use his authority under the Antiquities Act in his final days in office to safeguard this national treasure and clean water source for all Americans today and into the future-and I urge all of us to step up and continue this fight in the years to come.2022 Open Photographer of the Year Jinyi He, China The Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument would permanently protect 1.7 million acres surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. We have a historic opportunity now, in President Obama’s last months in office, to protect the Grand Canyon watershed as a national monument. If we are not willing to protect the Grand Canyon, what are we willing to protect? What we allow to happen here, in the Grand Canyon, is what will write our story across the American West-and our world. ![]() Even this place-the crown jewel of the National Park System and the Grandest Canyon on Earth-faces a triple threat of development, diversion, and mining. May these stories be a reminder to all of us that conservation is a fight that is never over. In Kevin Fedarko’s book The Emerald Mile, he wrote that Martin “inaugurated a tradition of naming every craft after a natural wonder that, in his view, had been heedlessly destroyed by the hand of man “to remind us of places we’ve destroyed without any necessity, so that maybe we’ll think twice before we do it again.” The tradition evolved over the years to include names of places that were only threatened by human development or activities, not yet destroyed and absolutely worth fighting for. It prompted me to make this my life’s work and to continue with Martin’s tradition of running dories through the Grand Canyon and on other rivers in the West. Unauthorized use is prohibited.įor me, the drowning of Glen Canyon followed by this monumental victory on the Grand, delivered the realization that such wild places need to preserved and protected for future generations, and that this would only happen if they were shared so that people would know what was at stake. ![]()
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