These photos from the 2019 International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition show that the world is a beautiful place.

This was my favourite, showing the horrific distances and complete desolation of the desert in central Australia. Sometimes, I forget the weird population density of Australia: in a geographic region around the size of Europe (excluding Russia) it has a population a little bigger than Romania. Yet at the same time, almost everyone in Australia is very urbanized: even Australia’s second biggest cities, Melbourne, is bigger than anything in the European Union.

Michael Josem

michael@michaeljosem.com

Michael Josem is a long-term consumer advocate, most prominently as a global leader in combating fraud in the online gambling industry. He was in part the inspiration for the 20th Century Fox Movie, Runner Runner, starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake.

Josem has over a decade of experience as a senior business leader working across various high-tech and online industries, and takes action to build a better community. His primary volunteer roles include service for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and Graih, the homelessness charity.