Gossip: The most beautiful places on earth captured by world's most expensive camera

Self-taught photographer John Chapple has been awarded the Hasselblad Owners Club Photographer of The Month for July for a mesmerising image of the Colorado River meandering around Horseshoe Bend, near Page, Arizona. It was taken on a Hasselblad H3D-50 - considered to be one of the best and most expensive cameras in the world.

The basic camera price starts at £20,000 but can quickly soar higher once lens are added on. It has 50 megapixels meaning it can capture incredibly sharp images of landscapes, such as the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, (pictured left), and more unexpected gems, such as this haunting image (pictured right) of a man dancing in a shaft of light within the Antelope Canyon in Arizona.