Petapixel featured 10 images from the winners of the Drone Photo Awards 2025, featuring my photograph "The Long Shadow".
Published 12 November 2025
A solitary small group of trees casts a long dark shadow across a fog-covered arable field on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sunrise strikes horizontally through the mist. The aerial perspective reduces the scene to near-pure geometry: a diagonal line of darkness dividing cold blue shadow from warm amber light. The tree reads as both subject and instrument, the agent producing the image's central tension. Buy this print →
"The top prize in the Nature category went to Christopher Harrison for his photo, “The Long Shadow.” Harrison captured this shot on the first day of meteorological spring, as sunlight filtered through early-morning mist."
