Landscape Photo Competition 2014 No 2 : Entry Number 305

This is an extraordinary interpretation which I have enjoyed particularly. I cannot work out how you have done this. Is it zoom or are you walking along with the flowers in your hand? Anyhow it’s a lovely composition with a real atmosphere of the great outdoors.

This photo was shot in Chile at Lago Fagnono in southern Tierra del Fuego. I used a Nikon D7100 camera with a Nikon 10-24mm lens, at 10mm. Being Tierra del Fuego the wind was blowing hard so to "stop" the flowers I shot at an ISO of 5000 at 1/500 sec and f/4.5. When shooting with my super-wide angle lens I like to fill the foreground with a strong subject and blur the background. My name is Dan Gindling and I live in San Diego, Calif.