What if your eye sees what the camera can’t? What if you look up into the skies and your imagination sees incredible lines and endless possibilities if only the rules of gravity (and trespassing) could be ignored? That’s where the Creative category comes in. It’s for images that have been digitally enhanced. It’s an open category, so anything goes. If you enter the creative category, you are free to create an image that matches what you want to see. And that is what finalist Luis Arriaga did when he wandered past Mexico City’s iconic Museo Soumaya. He explains more below.
No color - no problem, monochrome photography
There is a skill to just shooting black and white photography. Far from being restrictive monochrome allows photographers to shoot a completely different perspective to what you would usually expect. Here is a collection of the most striking Red Bull Illume images, all in black and white which display the versatility of monochrome.

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