Aiken landscape Patrick Krohn won first place in the Special Awards category of In Your Backyard in the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards (NLPA), the first international photography competition of its kind.
In its fifth year, the competition was created to promote the best landscape and nature photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work, according to a news release.
Krohn’s image titled “Emerging From the Wreckage” is of a tangle of roots from a tree that was blown over during Hurricane Helene in 2024. The photo was taken four months after the storm on the front lawn of the Green Boundary Club on Whiskey Road. It was part of his project called “Premature Fall” showing the destruction and effects on the trees after the storm. It’s on display at the Aiken Center for the Arts.
The main criteria for the In Your Backyard category is the image needs to have been taken within 25 miles of the photographer’s home. Krohn’s photo was taken just three miles from his home in Aiken.
He used his prize money to pay for the printing of his current show at the Aiken Center for the Arts. The image “Emerging From the Wreckage” will be part of this show called “The Drama and The Details” that will run from Oct. 23 to Nov. 29.
Krohn’s image was one of 11,023 photographs submitted to the competition from 64 countries by 1,134 photographers.
See Krohn’s artwork at his website here.
Five leaders and world-class photographers were chosen as judges including two from the United States, one from the United Kingdom, one from Australiaand one from South Africa.
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