About me


My name is Mads Peter Iversen, I live in Denmark, my interest for photography exploded in 2011, and I've been working as a full-time landscape photographer since 2016. I am educated schoolteacher with a master's degree in educational philosophy. After trying out other photography genres, such as headshot photography and commercial videography, I've settled on fine art landscape pictures. Besides landscape photography I also run a YouTube channel focused on the educational side of landscape photography. My experience with videography and video editing goes back to 2002.
I find my inspiration all over the world but I'm especially drawn to both the cold, harsh , and epic landscapes of the Atlantic countries like Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Norway, and the more calm, ethereal, and serene forest scenes and open countrysides of countries like Denmark and the British Isles.
I'm a child of the postmodern era and have grown up with action movies such as Armageddon, The Rock, and Batman, fantasy movies such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Avatar, and Game of Thrones, and computer games such as Warcraft and Diablo. All of these influence my photography heavily. And then... in the back of my head roams the Scandinavian minimalism, which pops up on different occasions. If you're in doubt about what I mean, check out my YouTube.
Since 2019 I've developed a drive to photograph and document my local environment even more than before. This has resulted in my portfolio of photos from Denmark has exploded.
I love to be in nature and photograph many different landscapes, which results in my photos being very varied. Everything from magical Milky Way night photos, over epic vistas, to calm and atmospheric forest scenes. It's the full spectrum all the way from the relaxing and peaceful over the epic awe and wonder to the dramatic and moody.
I also shoot to edit. The camera cannot capture "reality" as it appears in front of us, so half the work is done in the editing phase, where the pictures come to life and where the mood I'm in influences the final photo.
As I have centered my work around education you will find a ton of information on my homepage and YouTube channel, that you can use to improve your own landscape photography. My educational philosophy is to aim you with a set of tools and thoughts you can use in your photography journey. I do not want to tell you how to make photos, I want to give you my knowledge as for you to be an independent artist.
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Awards, features and publishes
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WINNER
of the prestigious
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Highest scoring Vertical Image
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GOLD AWARD in the Open category





WINNER
Among 7327 entries in the "Islands" Photo Contest hosted by Viewbug

Runner up in "Show Minimalism Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug! Top 5 of 18119


Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (July 2017): Mads Peter Iversen
"This month's winner is Mads Peter Iversen! His work is notable for its sophisticated compositions, technical aptitude, and imaginative qualities."

My "Háifoss sunrise" photo went viral on Instagram and was featured in the following accounts:
awesome.earth, 3.4m followers, 60000+ likes
theglobewanderer, 2,1m followers, 41000+ likes
awesome.photographers, 1,8m followers, 22000+ likes
discoverglobe, 1,4m followers, 25000 likes
awesomeglobe, 1,3m followers, 27000+ likes
awesome.pix, 1,3m followers, 19000+ likes
wow_planet, 1,1m followers, 15000+ likes
instagood, 856k followers, 12000+ likes
awesomedreamplaces, 850k followers, 12000+ likes
nat.geography, 761k followers, 13000+ likes
wonderful.globe, 746k followers, 8000+ likes
discover.vacations, 303k followers, 6000+ likes
- and many more!

Finalist in the "Monthly Pro Vol 24 Photo Contest" hosted by ViewBug.


Finalist (among top 59) in the "The Magic Of Moving Water Photo Contest" hosted by ViewBug.


Finalist (among top 57) in the "Life and Freedom Photo Contest" hosted by ViewBug.


Runner Up (winner along with 9 others among 18936 submissions) in the "I Love The World Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist in the "Clever Angles Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.
Finalist (among top 81) in the "A World of Blue Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist (among top 69) in the "Disrupting Depth Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist (among top 51) in the "Faith Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist in the "Bright and Colorful Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist (among the top 66) in the "Rule of Thirds in Nature Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Featured at lonelyplanet.com
Featured in an article from Lonely planet. One of my pictures of the library Dokk1 in the city of Aarhus was used to present Aarhus as the 2nd best place to visit in Europe.


Grand Jury Winner in "Long Exposure Views Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug!
“This image caught my eye and spoke to me in so many dimensions. I enjoy that the photographer has done a wonderful job of taking the viewers eye and masterfully leads it around and through this image. The black sand in the foreground does not allow the viewers eye to leave the composition. At the same time the photographer uses a shutter speed that is not too long nor too short creating just the right amount of motion in the water. The composition allows for the viewer to remain in the image by not cutting any of the rocks that our eyes enjoy as we drift around from foreground to background. The detail in the cool tonality of the highlights and shadows led me to select this images as the Grand prize winner!” – Ken Sklute


Finalist (among the top 56) in the "Clouds in Movement Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.

Finalist (among the top 73) in the "Monthly Pro Vol 21 Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.


Finalist (among the top 35) in the "The Four Elements Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug.

Interview
Interviewed and published by JL Interviews in Rome. Read the interview here.

Winner in the Peter Hurley Headshot competition hosted by KelbyOne with this shot of Jesper:

I won this bad boy written by Mr. Hurley himself!


Featured in the following Instagram channels:
WorldBestShot 126k+ followers
Main_Vision 120k+ followers
Sunset_Vision 100k+ followers
nature.photo 58k+ followers
Greatshotz 44k+ followers
and more...!
Fstoppers "Photo of the Day"

Featured on the viewbugblog with an article "Shooting on remote locations"

Finalist (among the top 29) in the "resource-travel-inspiration-photo-contest-vol2" featured by ViewBug. The competition had more than 12000 entries.
Finalist (among the top 46) in the "alluring-landscapes-photo-contest" featured by ViewBug in coorporation with fstoppers and Elia Locardi. The competition had 16755 entries.
Runner up (among top 6) in the Viewbug competition "TamronPrimePrize". The competition had more than 1000 entries.
200000+ views on facebook for my “Overcoming” video
More than 15mio views on my youtube channel “daneimp”
Several features in different Instagram accounts
And more!
Fstoppers "Photo of the Day"

Cover picture of the danish gymnastic magazine “Gymnasten”

Winner in ”Phlearn Nightphotography contest”
