Effects of Climate Change

Another cracked, dried up landscape, but for this depiction they have taken the photograph from above, showing the interesting patchwork of lines all over the frame, making it a bit artful and surreal. But to give it a bit of symbolism, they have included the leaves of a lone plant coming out of the dry earth, seemingly struggling to survive. An arresting image.

Wow, you don't come across this scene every day! The petrol station and lamp posts reflected in the water with no cars or people in sight gives this image a surreal quality. However if the photographer had come a bit closer and maybe pointed the camera more to the left then references to any land will have been cut out from the bottom and to the right. That way you would have seen more of the flooded petrol station and you would have given this scene a more dramatic and even more surreal feel. Great image though. Well done.

Heres an iceberg that doesn't give us that impressive, exotic, almost romantic look we usually associate with iceberg scenes. No clean whites and cold minty blue colours dominate here. Instead, it's a pathetically small and dirty grey iceberg surrounded by muddy-coloured water. What I would say is for added impact, the iceberg would have been better-placed within the frame i.e. isolated in the very middle of it. It's good that the photographer has captured the boat moving across the bottom half of the image to give the iceberg some scale.

With a competition who's title centres around the issue of Climate Change, your image will invariably be heavy on visual symbolism. And this brilliant image is no exception. A parched barren other-worldly landscape with a distant, sole figure walking away from the camera against a blue cloudless sky, down the middle of the frame is a very powerful image. And what completes this as my winner is the lone disused empty plastic bottle in the foreground. A dystopian look at what the world in the future could be like everywhere. Bleached colours and emptiness. Global warming turning our earth into a desert, with the waste embodied by the plastic bottle produced by us as a reminder of our disregard for our environment.. A worthy winner congratulations!

I was expecting lots of images of parched cracked and dried-out mud or earth, and this for me was the stand-out one. Getting low down with a wide angle was a good idea and what really works for me is how the photographer has used the setting sun's warm light to catch the cracking, dried out earth. well done.

Of course one of the effects of climate change is the extreme weather events that are happening all over the world. This photograph shows the aftermath of an amazing hail storm that has left a street in a city devastated, with cars damaged. . The frost/mist coming off the large lumps of ice lying around, that are catching the early morning (or late afternoon) light really make this an eye-catching image. Lovely lighting.

Forest fires are becoming such a big feature of climate change. And what a great almost impressionistic photographic depiction. The way the photographer has captured the wavy smoke rising from the long almost wavy-lined trees of the green forested bottom-half of the frame.. The flames peering through them give it a very dramatic feel.

This is a very powerful look at what we have to witness as our earth changes as a result of climate change. Trees half-submerged in flood water is always powerful to look at but here the photographer has introduced real emotion and drama turning the scene into something eerie and foreboding; taking the photo in the dead of night using a torch to light the tress in a ghostly way; their foliage captured in the reflected surface of the water.. A very powerful, well thought out and artful image. Well done!

Again, in a competition with the subject being the effects of climate change, the photographer has used powerful visual symbolism to convey what is happening to large areas of the planet as sea levels rise.. A lone figure perfectly placed in the centre of the frame, marooned on a patch of land surrounded by eerily beautiful water that melts into sky, gives this photo a strikingly surreal quality. Such brilliant composition colours and lighting. congratulations!.

I love this image as a way of making us look at the relationship of humans and the landscape in the context of climate change. The feeling that however powerful we think our technological advancement has become and its capacity to "tame" the environment, nature will always win. Hence the road disappearing under the advancing desert as your eye leads away into the horizon. Placing a lone figure in the middle of the disappearing road gives it scale as well as added symbolism. A photo brilliantly composed and conceived.

Trees submerged in water is always a powerful image, but the photographer here has decided to use a slow shutter speed to enhance the image's aesthetic quality. The blurred clouds along the bright blue sky looks great and helps to isolated the bare trees. Well done.

A dramatic picture of a storm that captures effects of climate change in an interesting way. Using a long lens, the photographer has isolated a small car with a driver silhouetted in it, lost in a landscape of wild water all around,. It makes you worry about the fate of it's occupants! I also like the monotone quality of this image.

No climate change themed competition would be complete without a desert landscape showing the disturbing element of a skeleton of an animal in it. Here, the photographer has got down low and composed the image well, with the skeleton across the bottom half in the foreground. The horizon along the middle composed of undulating mountains in the soft light completes this well composed picture.