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This week’s Top 10 is full of places considered “typical” in the travel and adventure photography communities these days: Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Bagan in Myanmar, Venice, and others on this list have been photographed extensively.
The reason I picked the photos I did this week isn’t about WHERE they were taken, but how. Bagan is almost always photographed in silhouette, but not this time. And the Faroe Islands are almost DEFINED by one single waterfall… which is nowhere to be seen in the Chris Burkard shot featured here.
This Top 10 is about familiar places photographed in at least somewhat unfamiliar ways. About finding that slightly different (or maybe even dramatically different) angle on the familiar, and reminding us why theses places are considered extraordinary in the first place.
Scroll down and enjoy.
Vestrahorn, Iceland
by Nicholas Roemmelt
Mont Saint Michel, France
by Ilhan Eroglu
Bagan, Myanmar
by Alvin Ng
Faroe Islands
by Chris Burkard
Skogafoss, Iceland
by Michael Shainblum
Hamburg, Germany
by Marcus Thor
Calcutta, India
by Daniela Calzolari
Bada, Xinjie, Yunnan, China
by Joseph Schmidiger
Venice, Italy
by Denis
Amethyst Lake, Utah
by Alex Strohl
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