"Sometimes I just don't see any potential photographs I want to take, even if I'm in a place I enjoy. Not everything needs to be photographed for the sake of taking a photograph."

"I love the new perspectives that drone photography has enabled. It has really brought a new dimension to what I'm able to achieve with a camera."

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"Photography has always been a personal interest of mine that I became more passionate about as I started to travel more. I feel completely connected being in the outdoors in the natural world..."

Check out our finalselection ofEditors' Picks from theZEISS Photography Award 2018. Photographers have until Feb 6th to enter their best series of between 5-10 images.

"Naturally, new experiences and places come into play, and photography for me was then a tool to record what I felt..."

"I don't like the hustle and bustle of big cities, I preferto explore the wilderness. I like to be in many places at the same time- that is the way I try to compensate for the lost years of my youth."

"This medium has never failed to motivate me to create new work. I will do photography as long as I can feel a strong bond with my camera, and I hope it will last a lifetime."

"My love of landscape and solitude; the drama of light and weather over the terrain is a spiritual inspiration. It's rapid changes and the variety of changing scenes leaves me ecstatic..."

This year's theme requires photographers to present a strong series of 5-10 images that look beyond the ordinary and every day. Entries close February 6th, 2018.