Travel nominee

On a stunning morning from Mount Tamalpais, a cyclist rounds a bend with the forested hills, Marin Headlands, and Pacific coastline stretching out beyond. The distant hills and coastal edges of San Francisco emerge softly through a gentle veil of fog, capturing a tranquil moment where motion meets the vastness of nature.

Dan Kurtzman is a fine art and landscape photographer based in San Francisco, California, whose work celebrates the wild beauty and ever-changing light of the American West. From the fog-draped ridges of Mount Tamalpais to the granite peaks of Yosemite and the rugged Northern California coast, his images are recognized for their luminous color, atmosphere, and emotional depth.

Widely recognized as one of the leading landscape photographers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kurtzman’s work has been published internationally in photography books, magazines, and curated collections. His fine art prints are collected worldwide and licensed for editorial, commercial, and hospitality projects.

Through his photography, he seeks to capture the quiet poetry of nature — those fleeting moments of light and landscape that evoke a deep sense of place and connection to the natural world.