Darren Soh, Singapore
Apple SVP Phil Schiller perfectly summed up this image, shot on an iPhone XS Max, by calling it a “surreal composition” with a single sign of life: the bird flying in the corner.
“A reflection that looks like a painting two worlds have collided,” Schiller said. Judge Chen Man added that the photo creates a “fantastic feeling” by leveraging “distortion and reflection as a strange angle.”