More Magnificent Winners --- Day 12/50

Walk: No, cold and tired.  Home puttering instead.

Distance: 0

Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2022. Tacande, La Palma, Spain: footage of a ravaged mountainside with a single tree withstanding the lava flow during an eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano
Photographer: Matjaz Krivic / www.tpoty.com

Commended, Deserts to Rainforests. Šardice, Jižní Morava, Czech Republic: Early morning light paints the waves of the so-called Moravian Tuscany in South Moravia.   Photographer: Jaroslav Hora / www.tpoty.com

Winner, Best Single Image in a Deserts to Rainforests Portfolio. Salar de Arizaro, Puna de Argentina, Argentina: "El Cono Arita," a spectacular geological formation where erosion has shaped an almost perfect cone that seems to be lost in a vast desert of the Salar de Arizaro   Photographer: John Seager / www.tpoty.com

So, a friend of Ciwt's and loyal reader 💓 asked her a question Ciwt couldn't answer.  "How in the world does The Atlantic choose a winner?  They are all magnificent."  Here is a link to the rest of the awesome winners