12 Majestic Wide-Angle Shots That Won A 2025 Epson International Pano Award
The 16th annual Epson International Pano Awards, the world’s largest competition dedicated to panoramic photography, has just announced its 2025 winners. Each year, photographers from around the globe capture some of the planet’s most breathtaking landscapes, highlighting nature’s power and beauty through sweeping, vibrant images. These winning photos showcase a remarkable blend of colour, composition, and symmetry, reminding us of the stunning world that surrounds us.
The Altiplano Landscape image, awarded the prestigious title of 2025 Amateur Photographer of the Year, was captured by American photographer Kevin Nyun. He managed to snap the photo on his last day at the Bolivian highland. Nyun explained, “We had been unlucky with the weather for three straight days, and the clouds finally cleared at that moment. Bolivia’s highland, to my knowledge, is less explored due to the difficulty of reaching remote locations and the high altitude of almost 5000 meters. On top of that, the snow was quite early this year, and I was in awe seeing the red desert mixed with fresh white powder. I will never know when I will get to have a moment like this in the future, so I quickly launched my drone and used the pano tool to compose this image. The total number of images in this composition is 21 images, single exposure stitched in Lightroom and processed through Lightroom and Photoshop”.
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#1 The Altiplano Landscape, Bolivia – 2025 Amateur Photographer of the Year – Kevin Nyun, USA (The 16th Epson International Pano Awards)
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#2 Not A Tiny Hong Kong Island – Winner Open Built Environment/ Architecture – Vitaly Golovatyuk, China/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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#3 Last Fireworks – 2025 Open Photographer of the Year – Alex Wides, Italy/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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Alessandro Cantarelli or Alex Wides is an Italian fine-art landscape photographer known worldwide for his pioneering work in extreme panoramic landscapes. Through years of experimentation and fieldwork, he developed a unique panoramic technique capable of merging multiple perspectives into a single immersive vision.
Describing Last Fireworks Wides said, “As the sun went down, the sky literally exploded. Layer after layer of clouds lit up, painting the desert with fire and gold. Using my Sony A7 IV with a fisheye lens on a tripod, I captured a full multi-exposure sequence at f/8 and ISO 100, rotating carefully around the nodal point to create a seamless 360° panorama.”
#4 Jackpot, Norway – Alex Wides, Italy/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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About Jackpot, Alex says, “After finishing tours on Senja Island, I hiked up to the shoot location hoping for a good weather window. When I opened the tent on the last try, I hit the Jackpot. The sky exploded in a spectacular half hour of Northern Lights. This was a perfect reward after years of waiting.”
#5 Mann, Italy – Alex Wides, Italy/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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Describing Mann, a 270° panorama captured in the Italian Dolomites, Wides says, “For years I’ve been fascinated by the way lunar light reveals every texture of the snow, every pattern shaped by the wind. To bring this vision to life, I worked through the night at -15°C, using a Sony A6600 with a fisheye lens at 10mm, f/5.6, 10 seconds, ISO 1250, building a 270° panorama in the freezing wind.”
#6 ELYSIUM – The Curator’s Award Winner – Chris Byrne, USA/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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#12 The Epson Digital Art Prize Winner – Daniel Viñé, Spain/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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The winner of The Epson Digital Art Prize 2025 was Daniel Viñé from Spain who commented on his image saying, “In this coastal village of Vietnam, survival is woven in silence. These women, working in morning shade and salt-laden air, are the unseen guardians of sustenance. The nets they mend are not mere tools, but lifelines binding sea and community together.”
#7 Cathedral of Shadows, Hanksville, Utah – Daniel Viñé, Spain/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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Daniel Viñé also took out the RAW Planet Award for Cathedral of Shadows, Hanksville, Utah which he describes as, “Witnessing a fleeting alignment of light and form revealing the sun blazing on one side, the vast shadow stretching on the other and the raw, timeless silence of Utah in between.”
#8 Frozen,USA Amateur Photographer of the Year 2025 – Kevin Nyun,USA / The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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#9 Remnants, Bolivia – Winner Amateur Nature/ Landscape – Kevin Nyun, USA/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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#10 The Little Prince Troll’s Tongue, Norway – Winner Gigapixel Andrew Bodrov, Estonia / The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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#11 Winner Amateur Built Environment, Architecture – Pedro Nogales, Spain/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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Wildebeest, Kenya – Southeast Asia Open Photographer of the Year 2025 Winner –
William Chua, Singapore/ The 16th Epson International Pano Awards
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Chua said, “I have witnessed the wildebeest migration countless times and it never ceases to amaze me. For this image, what caught my attention was a lone wildebeest turning back amidst the frenzy. In that instant, I knew that was the shot I wanted.”
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