16 gorgeous images from the 1839 Awards' Color Photography Contest

16 gorgeous images from the 1839 Awards' Color Photography Contest

The 1839 Awards are named in honor of the year that the photography was first made widely available to the public. Each year, the competition celebrates photographers through different contests, including in color photography. “These images are windows into faraway places, challenges to what the photographic image can be, and invitations to encounter the world from new, unexpected points of view,” 1839 explains. “They give us the all- too-rare o…