A few years ago, we started this adventure in order to bind a uniquely beautiful and historic city like Siena with a photo festival and contest: the Siena International Photo Awards. In these six years, our project has become, year by year, a highly anticipated event appreciated worldwide. This success is confirmed by the numbers and by the continued participation of the internationally renowned professionals who have chosen to contribute to our project, thus placing us among the major photographic contests in the world. We are happy that our dream has been enthusiastically supported since the beginning, both by the local authorities in Siena and private partners, without whom we couldn't have started this adventure.
French photographer Greg Lecoeur’s stunning shot, “Frozen Mobile Home,” of a giant iceberg surrounded by crabeater seals, is the overall winner of the 2020 Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) contest, one of the world’s top international photography competitions. Jurors selected the winning image among tens of thousands of photos submitted by photographers from 156 countries. Winning photographers were announced on October 23rd.
Lecouer, an award-winning professional ocean and wildlife photographer, shot the image in Antarctica, where he is often involved in scientific projects that highlight the fragility of our oceans and the importance of preserving our planet.
South African photojournalist Brent Stirton won this year’s “Best Author” Award thanks to his powerful storytelling through images and his commitment to covering issues related to wildlife and conservation, as well as global health, diminishing cultures, sustainability, and the environment.
Egyptian photographer Nader Saadallah won the category "Short Documentary Film" with the extraordinary video, "The Forgotten."
Here are the best photos of 2018, 2017, and 2016.
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#1 Home Alone (1st Place In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
Only a single apartment's windows are lit in Tsing Yi district, a densely populated area of Hong Kong, right before sunset.
Image credits: Attila Balogh
#2 Security Man (3rd Place In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
It was still very early and the Maat Museum was still closed. But the guard was already walking slowly along the building. There was only a narrow path between the building and the river Tejo and my feet got wet taking this shot.
Image credits: Martin Seraphin
#3 Death Of A Fire Victim (1st Place In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
A man desperately tries to save himself during a fire that destroyed a 22-story building in Dhaka. The blaze resulted in 25 deaths and 70 injuries. The man was lowering himself by holding onto a cable, but the heat forced him to suddenly let go and he crashed to the ground.
Image credits: Mohammad Sazid Hossain
#4 Diogo Cancela (1st Place In Sports In Action Category)
Diogo Cancela of Portugal is seen during practice prior to day three of the British Para-Swimming International meeting at Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
Image credits: Ian Macnicol
#5 Night Hunter (1st Place In Animals In Their Environment Category)
The great grey owl is well known for its extreme hunting skill. After working on a story about this owl for many weeks in a row, I finally got a picture that told all I wanted to show in just one frame. I captured the owl seconds before it attacked a vole under the full moon. It's truly a hunter of the night.
Image credits: Jonas Classon
#6 Desert Ice (2nd Place In Sports In Action Category)
Professional ice climber Will Gadd climbing on the remaining glacial ice on the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro. This ice wall is freestanding and looks like an iceberg emerging from the sand.
Image credits: Christian Pondella
#7 Taboo (2nd Place In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
I took this photo inside my home studio in Iran while I was working on a movie project about Afghan immigrants living in Iran. It was the first time that I'd witnessed someone wearing a burka in person. What struck me immediately upon seeing this woman was that I couldn’t see any part of her body except the soles of her feet as she walked. Since I captioned this photo as “Taboo,” the message I am expressing is one of rebellion.
Image credits: Fattah Zinouri
#8 The Rescuers (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
This image was taken during the Vijay Diwas celebration in Kolkata. This day is known as the victory of the Indian Army over Pakistan.
Image credits: Shibasish Saha
#9 Church Ceiling Concrete (2nd Place In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom church has truly unique architecture, with this concrete ceiling that seems to be an abstraction in reality.
Image credits: Barbara Schmidt
#10 Sisters (3rd Place In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Natalya, Irina, and Tatyana are three twin sisters from the northern Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. I found out about their existence from social networks a couple of years ago and really wanted to take pictures of them. This year, I managed to do it. Three sisters, three friends, three soulmates. Their love for each other is respected.
#11 Frozen Mobile Home (Photo Of The Year)
Massive and mysterious habitats, icebergs are dynamic kingdoms that support marine life. As they swing and rotate slowly through polar currents, icebergs fertilize the oceans. Carrying nutrients from the earth, they are responsible for life blooms by developing phytoplankton and influence the carbon cycle by sequestering carbon dioxide from the air. They also thus shelter big animals such as crabeater seals that spend the entire year on the pack ice.
Image credits: Greg Lecoeur
#12 Mother (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Homs, Syria's third-largest city, had been involved in the war for four years. A mother, who returned home after the end of the conflict, found her child's toy car in their destroyed house.
Image credits: Hassan Ghaedi
#13 Woman At Work (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Vietnamese workers sit surrounded by thousands of incense sticks in Quang Phu Can, a village in Hanoi, Vietnam, where the sticks have been traditionally made for hundreds of years. Incense plays an important role in the spiritual lives of Vietnamese people. People use incense in all worship activities. The bamboo bundles are arranged on the ground on sunny days so as to dry them.
Image credits: Azim Khan Ronnie
#14 Fire And Water (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
After a fire in a wooden house in Murmansk, firefighters are trying to prevent the explosion of gas cylinders by removing them from a dangerous vicinity and cooling them with water.
Image credits: Vitaliy Novikov
#15 In Between (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Bangladeshi firefighters at work to extinguish a blaze where 25 died in an office building in Dhaka. People were trapped in the top floors with fire burning in the lower portion of the building.
Image credits: K Asad
#16 Spanish Moss (2nd Place In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Early in the morning on a November day, inside the swamp, looking for the magnificent beauty of the Spanish moss. The late autumn colors made it appear almost monochromatic and the Bald Cypress stood in the still water creating an incredible reflection in the misty atmosphere.
Image credits: Mauro Battistelli
#17 Koichi Omae (1st Place In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
I met the amputee dancer Koichi Omae, originally from Osaka, on my way. At 23, when he was entering his career, a car accident took away all his dreams. He had his left leg amputated below the knee. With great willpower, he decided to continue his career as a dancer, aware that without the limb, he would have to spend much more energy not only in performing the artistic gesture, but also just walking normally.
Image credits: Silvia Alessi
#18 David And Golia (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
A pro independence protester is arrested in the Ramblas, in the city center of Barcelona, during a week of riots after the condemnation of separatist leaders. The violence and duration of the clashes in Barcelona was without precedent.
Image credits: Davide Bonaldo
#19 Living With The Dead (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Due to poverty and overpopulation, an estimated 10,000+ people are literally living with the dead at Manila North Cemetery. The owners of the graves allow people to live there ― and even inside the mausoleums ― as long as they keep the area clean.
Image credits: Klaus Bo Christensen
#20 Fear (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Detainees are terrified after one of them died due to meningococcemia at a detention center in Biñan, Laguna, the southern part of Metro Manila. Authorities also banned visitors for safety precautions.
Image credits: Dante Diosina Jr.
#21 Hope (3rd Place In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Southwest of Tenerife, where one of the most important colonies of pilot whales lives, this 6-month-old young specimen had been hit and mutilated by a boat. The only thing left to do was to euthanize him. The traffic of ships poses a serious threat to whales worldwide.
Image credits: Francis Pérez
#22 Tears (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
A woman cries in her home destroyed by a fire in a slum in Mirpur. At least 10,000 people were left homeless after a violent fire hit the crowded slums of Dhaka.
Image credits: K Asad
#23 La Cattedrale (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
The majestic interior of a cooling tower of a geothermal power plant, whilst maintenance operations were carried out during plant shutdown.
Image credits: Fabio Sartori
#24 The World Is Going Upside Down (2nd Place In Animals In Their Environment Category)
The name orangutan means "man of the forest" in the Malay language. There are 3 varieties of Orangutan, the one in this picture is Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Adult male orangutans can weigh up to 200 pounds. Flanged males have prominent cheek pads called flanges and a throat sac used to make loud verbalizations called long calls. They mainly feast on wild fruits like lychees, mangosteens, and figs, and slurp water from holes in trees.
Image credits: Thomas Vijayan
#25 Utopia (1st Place In Under 20 Category)
I called the photo Utopia, because nowadays, in our anthropomorphized world, it's almost impossible to see a scenario like that, an unspoiled nature in a perfect wilderness state, like it has been frozen forever in time.
Image credits: Riccardo Marchegiani
#26 Baby Orangutan Surgery (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Brenda, a 3-month-old female orangutan is ready for surgery to repair her damaged humerus. Orangutans are under threat from the ongoing depletion of the rainforest due to palm oil plantations, logging, mining, and hunting.
Image credits: Alain Schroeder
#27 Climate Activists Run Into Coal Mine (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Activists of the climate action group "Ende Gelaende" run into a brown coal open mine at Garzweiler, in North Rhine Weszfalia, to stop the excavator from digging.
Image credits: David Klammer
#28 Stolen Childhood (2nd Place In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
At the Panzi hospital in Bukavu, a young rape victim named Bilati, age 3, waits for an operation to repair her vaginal area. The situation in the DRC has gotten worse with the alarming escalation of human rights violations and abuse against women and children who suffer fearing reprisals and social exclusion.
Image credits: Paula Bronstein
#29 Dignity (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
A Syrian woman and child walk down a destroyed street, as civilians and rebels prepare to evacuate one of the few remaining rebel-held pockets in Arbin, Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus.
Image credits: Abdulmonam Eassa
#30 Flight Show (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Annika Sieff of Italy in action during the ski jumping event of the Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix at the Hans-Renner-Schanze.
Image credits: Sascha Fromm
#31 Their Eyes Talk Emotions (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
It is always nice to see the Grizzly bears fishing. Each grizzly has their own technique to hunt fish. In this picture, the fish just got escaped as it hit the outer part of the bear's teeth. Uniqueness: Speaking eyes of the bear & the fish.
Image credits: Thomas Vijayan
#32 Bear-Spoilt Eggs (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Brown Bear at Kuril Lake, Kamchatca, catching a salmon. The picture was taken in the exact moment when the salmon was losing all of its eggs and its life too.
Image credits: Jon Langeland
#33 Dentist (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Symbiosis between a moray eel and a cleaner shrimp. This moray eel was having its routine dental checkup. The cleaner shrimps clean parasites, insects, algaes, etc. off of the eels, making them more healthy – in return, the shrimps get a free meal.
Image credits: Lilian Koh
#34 Vladik (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Reindeer breeding is probably one of the rarest professions. In our region, on Yamal, there are approximately 14,000 man that live together with the herds of reindeers. These people in majority are “Nents” by nationality and are representatives of native population. They are very hardworking and hospitable.
Image credits: Sergey Anisimov
#35 Vitiligo: Mercedes (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
HAVANA, CUBA-2018 March 18. Mercedes, 42 years old, posing in her house. The first Vitiligo marks appeared on her elbows and legs by the age of 35, after her grandmother's death. Now Vitiligo took over 90% of her body. She used Cuban treatments with good results but in the end she gave up using them because she was fed up of applying the lotion every day. Now she puts black makeup on her face in order to camouflage the white skin.
Image credits: Rosa Mariniello
#36 In The Storm (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Nenets people during a snow storm in the harsh siberian winter. In this part of the world, during winter time, temperatures can go as low as -50° and wind blows over 100km/h making these reindeer herders' life very difficult.
Image credits: Stefano Cestari
#37 Benediction (1st Place In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Muslim women praying in Hamedan, Iran for Eid al-Fitr. The last day of Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims all over the word with special prayers and gatherings.
Image credits: Amirmahdi Najafloo Shahpar
#38 Londoners (1st Place In Street Photography Category)
The candid street photography photo was taken during the annual colorful and joyful carnival in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom.
Image credits: Olesia Kim
#39 Vacant (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
In Tokyo there are many vacant taxis which are mostly driven by old men. They usually spend very long hours simply waiting for their next customer.
Image credits: Kok Tien Sang
#40 Curiosity (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
A young baboon looks through a porthole in a photographic hide. This photo was taken from a photographic hide, which allows for viewing and photography of animals without adversely affecting their behaviour. This baboon noticed me moving around inside the hide and stopped to look, posing in a unique way. This baboon was still very young, and was following its mother around - after a while its mother came to fetch it.
Image credits: Ankit Kumar
#41 Child Amputee Yemen (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
9-year-old Saleh al Wabel lost his lower left leg when he stood on an anti-personnel mine near his home in Marib, Yemen. He is being treated at the amputee hospital in Marib.
Image credits: Philip Coburn
#42 USA Poverty (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Laurane Ivey, 37, sinks deep into a pink plastic tub filled with water from a fire hydrant as she begins to scrub the dirt from her worn feet. Above her is a barbed wire fence surrounding the shelter she used to live in before it closed. With no place to go she lives in her car joining other homeless in parked cars across the street including her mom. California has the highest poverty and income inequality in the nation.
Image credits: Renée Byer
#43 Fetching Drinking Water (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Two Rohingya children are fetching drinking water to their homes from hundreds of meters below. The scarcity of drinking water is acute at the Rohingya camps in Kutupalong, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.
Image credits: Noor Ahmed Gelal
#44 Winners (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
Sebastian Cabal and playing partner Juan Robert Farah of Colombia celebrate match point in their Men's Doubles final against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France, during Day twelve of the Championships.
Image credits: Matthias Hangst
#45 Last Fence From Home (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
Horses clear a fence during the Racing UK Profits Returned To Racing Handicap Steeple Chase at Wetherby Racecourse in Wetherby, England.
Image credits: Alex Livesey
#46 Gymnaste In The Air (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
A gymnast's jump on the parallels at the Flanders International Team Challenge. Her expression clearly shows her tension and fear.
Image credits: Eric Tkindt
#47 Climbing Solo (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
Matt Bush is an incredibly skilled free solo rock climber based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this image he takes his life into his own hands as he scales the Paarl Rock cliff face with no ropes.
Image credits: Luke Bell
#48 Synchro Steam (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
A breathtaking shot of a synchronized swimmer performing a flip outside the water during a cold winter night practice.
Image credits: James Rokop
#49 Vortice (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
This unique staircase is located inside the Chianti Classico Antinori winery near Florence. The shot captures the moment when a woman is passing.
Image credits: Alberto Caselli
#50 Roof Architecture (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
In everyday life it is often the case that people walk past buildings on the street without taking a closer look at them.
Image credits: Eberhard Ehmke
#51 Clockhouse (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
In a play of light and shadow the building forms an almost surrealistic and abstract decor, reinforced by the apparently disproportionate presence of man.
Image credits: Marcel Van Balken
#52 Four Of A Kind (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
The Haydar Aliyev Center with its unique, award-winning design, is located in the center of Baku. It hosts important exhibitions, events and includes several permanent exhibitions about Azerbaijan.
Image credits: Nurlan Tahirli
#53 Creature Of The Night (2rd Place In Animals In Their Environment Category)
I had come across a handful of snapshots of black leopards taken in Africa, but as far as I knew, nobody had ever captured a series of high quality images of a wild black leopard in Africa before. I travelled to Kenya in January 2019 and spoke to the guides, landowner and rangers who had seen the leopard. With their help, I set up camera traps and managed to capture this image of the cat under a full moon.
Image credits: William Burrard-lucas
#54 When Rays Fly (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A large group of Mobula Rays in the Sea of Cortez. These creatures are as graceful in mid-air as they are in the water, throwing their wings like flying birds.
Image credits: Amit Eshel
#55 Snow Monalisa (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
The Arctic Fox saves his food in different locations before the winter to return back to it during the heavy winter in order to avoid the risk of dying of starvation.
Image credits: Fahad Alenezi
#56 Think Different (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A big-scale sand smelt moving towards a moon jellyfish. To defend themselves from predators, these fish move together grouping in ever-changing forms. In this case, a single specimen appears to be making a "counter-current" decision.
Image credits: Pietro Formis
#57 Waiting For Winter (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Leaves against the silhouettes of grey beech trunks in a cold winter forest. This scene immediately caught my eye and I captured it with my telephoto lens.
Image credits: Martin Rak
#58 Tim Burton Autumn (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
The wicker stems of Cañamares, Cuenca, are one of the plant elements that most lend themselves to artistic visualization.
Image credits: Juan Garcia Lucas
#59 Nature's Canvas (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
This image was captured from an aircraft flying over Iceland. Braided Rivers exhibit numerous channels that split off and rejoin each other to give a braided appearance. They typically carry fairly coarse-grained sediment down a fairly steep gradient. Consequently, braided rivers usually exist near mountainous regions.
Image credits: Hong Jen Chiang
#60 The White Coastline (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Year after year the same natural spectacle takes place on the Greenland Icecap. As the summer approaches, large meltwater lakes appear at the edge of the ice. The water filters all spectral colours until only blue tones remain, which are scattered and reflected on the ice.
Image credits: Stephan Fürnrohr
#61 Sub Zero (1st Place In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Night diving at a temperature of minus two degrees Celsius in Eastern Greenland, swimming among icebergs under the ice of a fjord.
Image credits: Tobias Friedrich
#62 Lorca: A Forgotten Girl In Art History (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
It is the story of a girl who lived through a period of history but was never seen, and though she was very artistic, she always hid herself from others until one day her identity was revealed. She was still trying to keep his identity a secret until he was satisfied to register in history. This girl's name is Lorca, and I have been trying to portray her face with the story she has in my mind so that the whole world can touch her feelings.
Image credits: Peyman Naderi
#63 Friends (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Riya and Sima are two little friends who live in the tea garden region of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Their smiling faces while playing in front of their house are a reflection of their purity.
Image credits: Suvro Paul
#64 Sub Zero (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Free diver and former world record holder Anna von Boetticher in East Greenland, with water temperature of -2°, ready to swim around icebergs under the ice in a frozen fjord.
Image credits: Tobias Friedrich
#65 Return (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
At sunset, in an enchanting and peaceful atmosphere, a group of camels walking among the desert dunes.
Image credits: Yunhua Yu
#66 Unexpected Guest On The Train (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
The green train, commonly known as the "poverty alleviation train", has greatly helped the local Yi ethnic people to trade agricultural products and thus help minority areas to get rid of poverty, in the extremely poor region of Liangshan in southwest China.
Image credits: Xiangang Chen
#67 Diver And Jacks At Cabo Pulmo (3rd Place In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Mexico, Baja California, Sea of Cortez. I heard stories about the thousand of jacks swimming together at Cabo Pulmo, but nothing could have prepared me for actually entering the water and find this spectacular sight. I was really amazed! and for a time, I just float there and enjoyed them. So in this time, a diver in my group was already at the bottom, some 60 feet below. I usually don't put divers in my photos, but in this case I thought it would.
Image credits: Christian Vizl
#68 The Young Dreamers (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Life has three stages : Childhood ,Youth, Oldage . Among the three, the childhood is the most beautiful part of our life. Plants and grains grow badly if there is no rain in early spring. So, our Childhood should not be confined only within the boundary of education, but it must be enjoyed to the fullest to make the life beautiful.
Image credits: Sujan Sarkar
#69 Struggle For Existence (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
In this image an old tailoring shop is emphasized. The trend of readymade garments is the main reason for closure of many small tailoring shop in the city. But still some exist. In such a shop, an old tailor is working for the livelihood in the right side and his offspring is continuing his study for a better future amid the surrounding chaotic situation on the left side. This image show the extreme situation related to struggle for existence.
Image credits: Partha Pratim Saha
#70 Nipa Palm Forest (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
This is a picture of nipa palm forest in Quang Ngai Vietnam. Nipa palm is located in a rich ecosystem. The only hole in the nipa palm forest is the relic of the bomb crater from the Vietnam War. The man is fishing net. Serving as a green lung for the East of Quang Ngai city. Nipa palm forest is an ideal place for ecotourism and a place where local people can catch a variety of seafood here.
Image credits: Khanh Phan
#71 Medellin Mirror (2nd Place In Street Photography Category)
A man with a blue shirt is carrying a big new rectangle-shaped mirror on his shoulder along the street and passes a man with a blue shirt standing behind a sale stand with cellphone accessories in Medellin Colombia.
Image credits: Michael Kowalczyk
#72 Kick It (3rd Place In Street Photography Category)
I took the picture at Marina Julia, a small seaside town on the Adriatic Sea. I adopted a shooting point from the bottom to go unnoticed and, at the same time and with a lot of luck, to be able to insert the boy who kicks the ball inside the space created by the woman's arm in the foreground. I believe that this solution increases also perspective depth and creates a surprise effect for the observer.
Image credits: Giancarlo Staubmann
#73 Essence Of Moments (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
Elements (fragments) that compose the daily life, which are located either in the most familiar places or outside of them, as a part of the complexity of the human activities, are the raw materials with whose the photographer becomes a creator of a new world, a new transformed reality. All these elements free from their actual substance become a sum of hints, within lie the truth of the photographer himself and the code of his view of the world.
Image credits: Makis Makris
#74 Velolib (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
Velolib bikes just below the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Under the shadow of the tower hides a neighbourhood waiting to be discovered. A place that is familiar, yet somehow undiscovered!
Image credits: Mairesse Mairesse
#75 Queen Of The Night (3rd Place In Under 20 Category)
A leopardess perches in a tree. This photo was taken after sunset, so the usage of a spotlight to light up the leopardess was necessitated. Spotlights are better for the animals than flashes, since it doesn’t induce temporary blindness. If you look carefully, you can see droplets of water on the leopardess’s back; I had been sitting with this leopard for hours in the rain, waiting for her to move.
Image credits: Ankit Kumar
#76 Nap Time (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
This photo was shot in Beijing, China. More specifically inside the Forbidden City. This photo shows 2 men taking a nap while a group of students are having a test in the background. I think it shows the 2 different group of people in their own lives. The 2 men taking a nap does not mean they are always relaxing, while the group of students having the test also does not mean that they are always that serious.
Image credits: Michael Theodric
#77 Gilets Jaunes Protest - Paris Burns (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
A "Yellow Vest" protestor on the Champs Elysees, in the fourth month of the demonstrations which started against rising fuel taxes and cost of living. Quickly the protests involved other social issues, namely the inequality of the social system under Macron's government.
Image credits: Kiran Ridley
#78 Black Men, White God (Honorable Mention In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
In a refugee community center in Italy, two Muslim refugees from Gambia prepare a traditional dinner under the cross. This activity is part of an integration project involving the entire neighborhood in order to create a sense of community despite religious or ethnic barriers.
Image credits: Francesco Saverio Lopazio
#79 Escaping (3rd Place In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Fleeing protesters climb over a highway barricade to evade an approaching police vehicle while others reach out in support from the other side during a march in Hong Kong on December 1.
Image credits: Shawn Yuan
#80 Synchro Start (3rd Place In Sports In Action Category)
Yeomju Gymnasium, Gwangju, South Korea ― 18th FINA World Swimming Championships ― Women's Duet Free Preliminary. Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorbe of Britain compete.
Image credits: Stefan Wermuth
#81 El Momento Decisivo (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
An athlete from Antioquia selected and trained by the Colombian Archery Team at the Belén Sports Unit in Medellín.
Image credits: Luis Henry Agudelo Cano
#82 Messi! (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ― April 16, 2019 ― FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi attempts an overhead kick during the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2nd Leg soccer match between FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC at the Camp Nou.
Image credits: Domenic Aquilina
#83 Laura Muir (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Laura Muir of Great Britain competes in the Women's 3000m final during Day One of The European Athletics Indoor Championships at Emirates Arena.
Image credits: Ian Macnicol
#84 Looking Up (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
The stairwell of a building, in this case a hospital, becomes an occasion to combine graphics, architecture and design.
Image credits: Maurizio Sartoretto
#85 Alex (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
The Berlin TV tower on Alexander Place is the tallest building in Germany and at the same time the most distinctive landmark in Berlin.
Image credits: Ute Scherhag
#86 Wooden Spiral (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
This is an upward view of the beautiful wooden spiral staircase at CitizenM hotel in London. It is quite a small staircase and at the top there are several circular lights, a few of which are shown here.
Image credits: Jacqueline Hammer
#87 Follow The Red Line (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
An interesting entrance guides the way into a place called the World of Illusion. The entrance makes you somewhat lose focus, especially when standing in the middle.
Image credits: Muhammad Almasri
#88 City Light (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
During a night storm, the lights of the skyscrapers of a Chinese metropolis seem to disappear at the presence of the imposing illumination of the sky radiated by a lightning.
Image credits: Yunhua Yu
#89 The Eye (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
I took this upward angled view of the beautifully textured curves of the Citizen M hotel staircase in London, including one of the lights to form an eye.
Image credits: Jacqueline Hammer
#90 The Kiss (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Mandarinfish usually mate every afternoon during sunset in very shallow water. These two emerged from the coral reef in the clear water, when the female left her eggs and the male his sperm.
Image credits: Tobias Friedrich
#91 The Knight Rider (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Bats are one of the most misunderstood species. However, the truth is that bats play a vital role in our ecosystem as seed dispersers and pest-controllers. With ever-expanding city limits, some of the bat species are well-adapted to urban environments.
Image credits: Yashpal Rathore
#92 Mother Cares (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
In the Israeli Negev desert, a Nubian Ibox looking for food is very carefully escorting her one-and-a-half-month-old puppy in a difficult and dangerous passage.
Image credits: Nachum Weiss
#93 Successful Hunt (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
In the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya, a female leopard along a nearly dry riverbed was looking for prey. A small warthog family appeared, and when a few drops of rain distracted them she took her chance and was successful.
Image credits: Peter Lindel
#94 Living In A Box (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Juvenile fish protecting himself inside a stinging box jellyfish. The photo was taken during a blackwater dive in the Lembeh strait, Indonesia.
Image credits: Galice Hoarau
#95 Follow Me (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
In the vicinity of Florence airport while a plane is taking off, a flock of starlings are trying to survive, by averting off a predator that is attacking them.
Image credits: Massimiliano Giovampaoli
#96 Mara Crossing With A Centerpiece (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Pure, uninterrupted wildlife experience at its best: a giraffe in the middle of the Mara River, in the Serengeti Park, with soft, orange light, and wildebeests passing by... and all of that in a complete solitude... for ten fantastic minutes.
Image credits: Artur Stankiewicz
#97 Transition (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
This shot captures that fraction of a second in which a diamond squid in the sea of Anilao changes color from its original light purple to an orange-red, starting first from the tentacles and fins and then covering the whole body.
Image credits: Yatwai So
#98 Colorful Night (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Framed by the glow of street and car lights along Kuwait city, two Arabian red fox cubs explore the night just outside their den. I spent more than 2 months monitoring them in order to take this shot where all the lights were reflecting on the sea water.
Image credits: Mohammad Murad
#99 Mating (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Far from land, in the pelagic domain of the Pacific Ocean, off Ensenada de Muertos, Baja California Sur (Mexico), a couple of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) perform their mating ritual. It is a defining moment that will contribute to the population recovery of the second smallest sea turtle in the world.
Image credits: João Rodrigues
#100 The Eye Of The Earth (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
This aerial shot of a small glacial lake surrounded by ice was taken in Denali National Park, Alaska from a float plane. It was probably my most memorable visual experience flying over this area.
Image credits: Stas Bartnikas
#101 El Cordón Caulle II (2nd Place In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
In 2011 I witnessed an incredible dirty storm that occurred during the furious eruption of the Cordon Caulle located in the region of the Rivers in Chile. It was a storm that scared thousands of people who lived in areas near the volcano. Hundreds of people were evacuated and the ash burial erupted many kilometers of forests and fields.
Image credits: Francisco Negroni
#102 La Dama Blanca (2rd Place In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
There are still places in the world where fortunately nature reigns. Among them are the wild cliffs of Portugal where it is still possible to observe the nesting of storks.
Image credits: Stanislao Basileo
#103 Burning Tree (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Sparks fly through the air as strong winds blow through the branches of an oak tree and light up the sky at the Kincade fire in Sonoma County. The fire lasted more than 10 days and subsequently burned 77,758 acres until it was fully contained.
Image credits: Paul Kitagaki Jr.
#104 Rain's Visitors At Dusk (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
The autumn dusk in the woods is always a magical moment. These macrolepiota procera, which can reach up to 30 cm in height, stand on a carpet of pine needles among blue trunks in a fairytale-like atmosphere.
Image credits: Agorastos Papatsanis
#105 Weather Vacuum (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
This storm raced across Kansas at 60 mph which made it very difficult to chase. The storm smashed up several towns, cut off power and produced golf ball-size hail with 85 mph straight-line winds.
Image credits: John Finney
#106 Green Crown (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
One of the most impressive beech trees forest in Europe is the "Enchanted Forest of Urbasa," in Navarra. When the fog floods everything, the silence becomes deafening and the atmosphere enchanted.
Image credits: Juan Garcia Lucas
#107 Earth's Egg Break Day (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
In this image the cracks are white salt crystals and where soil and salt mix the cracks become dark. In the middle a small green salt lake seems to form a broken egg.
Image credits: Yuhan Liao
#108 Il Bosco Incantato (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
One winter day, walking along the banks of the river, I noticed a fairytale scenario: several willow branches had fallen and frozen, creating a wonderful landscape.
Image credits: Stanislao Basileo
#109 Yin And Yang (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
This is an aerial view of Lake Cuejdel, the largest natural dam in Romania. The photo was taken just before the full frost when the trees had already lost all their leaves.
Image credits: Gheorghe Popa
#110 Luminescent (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
A small tree with frozen snow on its branches glowing in the mysterious forest. The photo was taken with natural light in a forest near Piatra Neamt, Romania.
Image credits: Fabian Balint
#111 Wild Sea (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
A spectacular sea storm hits the North coast of Cantabria, Spain. The waves exceeded 12 meters of altitude, leaving overwhelming images, demonstrating the incredible strength of Mother Nature. Due to climate change, the storms are increasingly dangerous in the coast.
Image credits: Sergio Saavedra Ruiz
#112 The Nomadelfia Community (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
The Nomadelfia community - Children inside the school bus. The care of children and orphans, the response to the social emergency of abandonment between the two world wars, represents the first spark that gave birth to Nomadelfia. Today this phenomenon is less extensive, but it still exists, in less evident but more complex forms. This is why Nomadelfia is still active in the field of reception, in the legal form of family foster care.
Image credits: Enrico Genovesi
#113 Eid-Ul-Fitr Congregation (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
South Asia's largest Eid-ul-Fitr Congregation held in Gor-e-Shahid Boro Math, Dinajpur, Bangladesh. According to the organizers’ claim, over 600,000 devotees participated in this Eid congregation. The prayers began at 8:30 am with devotees coming from different parts of the region. Eid-ul-Fitr is a Muslim festival of happiness celebrated all over the world.
Image credits: Azim Khan Ronnie
#114 Jumps From Boat (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Children jumping from the roof of our ship in the seas of Malaysia, the game consists of who jumps more and makes more turns.
Image credits: Igor Altuna
#115 Garden Of Delights (Honorable Mention In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
In a timeless universe, free goddesses gave nature their bodies to be caressed by the light of a sun that marvelled at their presence. In the midst of silence, their hairs swayed and their souls rejoice. They felt sublime almost non-existent. n an era of strange beauty standards, they feel sublime and impose their own criteria.
Image credits: Andres Montoya Arango
#116 The Daily Train Journey (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Lack of seats many passengers are travelling on top of speeding trains but many choose the dangerous form of ride to save money.
Image credits: Pronob Ghosh
#117 Just Human (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
This photo features 30+ women of a variety of shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. Challenged to wear no makeup, and posing in outfits styled to match the tone of their skin, they attempt to combat unhealthy beauty standards and speak to something that we know deep down to be true: The strength in unity. The beauty in diversity. The power that comes from empowering others. Truths we need so much in our world today.
Image credits: Briana Gardener
#118 Lag Baomer (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Women and girls separated by a net at the Lag BaOmer celebration in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish quarter of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem.
Image credits: Jordi Cohen
#119 Prostration (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Sujūd (Arabic), is an Arabic word meaning prostration to Allah in the direction of the Kaaba at Mecca which is usually done during the daily prayers. a Muslim is to praise and glorify Allah. The position involves having the forehead, nose, both hands, knees and all toes touching the ground together.
Image credits: Youssef Bajjash
#120 Season Of Anchovy Fishery (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
From May to July is the peak season of anchovy fishery in the central provinces of Vietnam and many local fisherman families along the coastline of Phú Yên province will follow the near-shore currents to catch the anchovy. Their fishing nets floating on the sea surface and were illuminated by sunlight created very interesting scene from above.
Image credits: Thien Nguyen
#121 Blooming (2nd Place In Journeys & Adventures Category)
A fishing net moving underneath the water's surface. Many local fisherman families along the coastline of Phú Yên province will follow the near-shore currents to catch the anchovy during peak season. Only a small proportion of the entire catch is sold fresh, with most of it being dried or salted. Salted anchovy is the most important raw material to create traditional fish sauce; the humble anchovy becomes the spirit of Vietnamese cuisine.
Image credits: Thien Nguyen
#122 Waterlilies Harvesting Season (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
A group of farmers washing and packing waterlilies before sending them off to the market in an early morning in the Me Kong delta. Waterlilies are widely used for decoration and sometimes in traditional local food.
Image credits: Trung Pham Huy
#123 Winter Life (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
The daily life of people feeding the animals in the harsh winter months east of Turkey. Return of the villagers who feed their animals at a temperature below zero until the evening.
Image credits: Orhan Tanhan
#124 Life Is Live (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
After a long time of drought, the water has returned to the Zayandehrood River, and people are sitting by the historic Khaju Bridge, enjoying the water and having fun.
Image credits: Majid Hojati
#125 The Gardens From The Sky (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
On a summer day, three generations of an Italian-Cuban family, living together in a old house overlooking the sea, are enjoying the beautiful day.
Image credits: Monia Marchionni
#126 Hongkongers (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
This street photo was taken during my vacation in Hong Kong. It was a pleasant evening when I spotted a family watching the scene in front of a colorful striped background.
Image credits: Olesia Kim
#127 Towards The Light (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
Bystanders and commuters outside a train station in Marrickville. The last hour of light created a harsh and contrasty scene giving this everyday scene a new lease on life.
Image credits: Drew Hopper
#128 Roma (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
A lively and fun moment of life in Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy. I was interested in representing the complexity of the presence of the various characters and their gestures and expressions.
Image credits: Giuseppe Cardoni
#129 Untitled (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
Passers-by on an area of the Heydar Aliyev Center, building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by architect Zaha Hadid.
Image credits: Nataliya Andrianova
#130 God On Earth (2nd Place In Under 20 Category)
This woman looking in every car for her children in the streets of Prayagraj, made me think of how every Mother is somehow God on earth, being capable of immeasurable love for every child on earth.
Image credits: Shridarshan Shukla
#131 Grizzly Bear Hunting Fish 2 (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
I was watching this grizzly bear for hours until he finally caught this fish. In this particular spot there are plenty of fish available and the grizzly bears enjoy feasting on them.
Image credits: Hannah Grace Vijayan
#132 Mbah Suripto (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
Mbah Suripto enjoying his cigarette beside his work of art. He is a well known Gamelan (traditional musical instrument) maker based in Central Java, Indonesia. He started making his first Gamelan in 1939, and in time having his Gamelan sold around and also out of Central Java, sometimes even to International buyers outside the country.
Image credits: Michael Theodric
#133 Experience (Remarkable Artwork In Under 20 Category)
When I saw this old man walking near me in the park I liked him a lot. So I used my little Spanish to start a conversation and then I finally pulled up the courage to ask if I could take his photo.
Image credits: Charles Hindmoor
#134 Food Bank (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Poverty in America: hundreds of cars a day drive through food distribution centers everyday. Without these food banks families wouldn't have the means to feed their children.
Image credits: Alison Wright
#135 Jugglers (Remarkable Artwork In Documentary & Photojournalism Category)
Wheelchair Basketball Team «Chance» during training in the Tyumen region, Russia. These athletes in wheelchairs are handling their lives and solving their problems as deftly as they are handling the ball.
Image credits: Natalia Gorshkova
#136 Shadow Hunter (Honorable Mention In Sports In Action Category)
Martin Salmon and Robert Jaegeler compete in the Madison Men Final during the German Track Cycling National Championships at the Velodrom Berlin.
Image credits: Matthias Hangst
#137 Bullseye (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Marcus Danielson of Sweden scores 0-1 behind goalkeeper Henry Bonello of Malta during the UEFA Euro Qualifier football match between Malta and Sweden.
Image credits: Joel Marklund
#138 Flexibility (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Gymnastics is a sport that involves performing chains of movements on different devices. It combines strength, flexibility, speed and dexterity, as seen in this jump from the World Gymnastics Championship.
Image credits: Faisal Hamadah
#139 Fighting (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Daniel Yule of Switzerland crashes while competing against Mathias Hargin of Sweden at the Ski World Championships in Sweden.
Image credits: Gabriele Facciotti
#140 The Net And The Gull (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
This net is a huge monument near Porto. It is a mobile structure that the wind swings to create beautiful forms. The two seagulls that can be seen in the net give an idea of the majesty of the monument.
Image credits: Ignacio Medem
#141 Chicago (Honorable Mention In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
A picture taken from a public parking in Chicago. The effect of the train lights, which meet coming from opposite directions, creates this striking visual effect.
Image credits: Iván Ferrero
#142 As-Salt (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
As-Salt is the most historic town in Jordan. For long periods in history, it was the most important settlement between the Jordan River and the desert to the east. Its golden age was at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, and it is the legacy of this period that makes As-Salt unique in Jordan and beyond. As-Salt has attracted settlers since the Iron Age at least.
Image credits: Ibrahim Salah
#143 Space Station TLV (Remarkable Artwork In Architecture & Urban Spaces Category)
The elevator shaft of the Amot-Atrium building in Ramat-Gan, Israel. The open space, with windows letting light in from the outside, and five elevator shafts side by side, create a sci-fi looking image.
Image credits: Ilan Shacham
#144 Diamond (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A diamond squid photographed during a blackwater dive in Kuramathi, Maldives. Every night the ocean undergoes the biggest migration in the animal world. It is a vertical migration and there are high chances of seeing creatures that normally live very deep during the day.
Image credits: Marco Steiner
#145 I'm A Bragger! (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
My main goal was capturing this sword-billed hummingbird in a totally different way, very close and detailed but also showing the surroundings and its habitat. I was then also lucky to capture the extra hummingbird to emphasize the beak size difference!
Image credits: Nicolas Reusens Bodén
#146 Strange Encounters (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A cormorant hunts for sardines under the late afternoon sun. These birds are extremely well-adapted to swimming and diving, and are able to reach incredible speeds underwater.
Image credits: Hannes Klostermann
#147 The Flying Hunter (Honorable Mention In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Great action in Los Islotes, where every year millions of sardines arrive and trigger the feeding frenzy of sea lions and birds. A group of fantastic cormorants arrived to hunt the sardines and this one seemed to push them aside while diving.
Image credits: David Salvatori
#148 Feeding - Private Moment (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Sometimes, very rarely, sperm whales allow you to be with them on socializing days. It is a unique experience and when one is in the water with whales the main thing is not to disturb them to avoid any change in their behavior.
Image credits: Mike Korostelev
#149 Attention (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A beam of sunlight enhances the scene of a lion swimming in the waters of the Sea of Cortez. Together with fur seals, sea lions are part of the Otariidae family, more commonly referred to as eared seals.
Image credits: Yung-sen Wu
#150 Waltz Of Death (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Near a puddle of water in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, one morning I witnessed an unusual hunting scene: a black crow caught a dove but a Lanner's hawk took it away. Then came a jackal who grabbed the hawk's claw to steal it and then let it go.
Image credits: Rian Van Schalkwyk
#151 Constellation Of Eagle Rays (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A school of uniquely patterned spotted eagle rays passes beneath me on an unforgettable dive in the Maldives. Like most divers, I have always found these rays to be especially spellbinding. Scientists have just recently confirmed that the spotting on each ray is a unique identifier, the equivalent of a human fingerprint. I love how B&W reinforces that uniqueness, keenly displaying the distinctive spotting and shading differences between each.
Image credits: Henley Spiers
#152 False Killer Whale (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
False Killer whales can be found in the deep oceans around Tonga and many of the world’s oceans. The false killer is a mystery to the cetacean world as they are very elusive and encounters with them are rare and brief.
Image credits: Scott Portelli
#153 Dancing Pompano (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
These peculiar filaments help the young Pompano to move and eat slow-moving crustaceans, small crabs and other fish. As the body grows it lengthens and the fins get shorter.
Image credits: Songda Cai
#154 Perfectly On Time (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
Great action in Los Islotes, where every year millions of sardines arrive and trigger the feeding frenzy of sea lions and birds. During this day, I enjoyed for 2 hours in the shallow water a group of fantastic cormorants diving to hunt the sardines. Here the two cormorants dive and move together like in synchronized swimming.
Image credits: David Salvatori
#155 Green Eye (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A massive six-meter crocodile slowly moves towards a herd of antelopes coming in for a drink at sunrise. I opted for a narrow depth of field, in order to obtain a pin-sharp eye, and the light droplets on the tail completely out of focus.
Image credits: Hannes Lochner
#156 Life Cycle (Remarkable Artwork In Animals In Their Environment Category)
A female short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is carrying a dead calf in South Tenerife, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean.
Image credits: Franco Banfi
#157 Flamingos In Abstract Landscape (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Lake Bogoria is a saline and alkaline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley that at times is home to one of the world's largest congregations of lesser flamingos. The alkalinity, the torrid heat of the climate, the volcanic activity, the geological conditions provide a habitat for different phytoplankton species to thrive that combined with other elements like minerals create sometimes kaleidoscopes of colors and unexpected shapes and patterns.
Image credits: Jose Fragozo
#158 Unseen Colors (Honorable Mention In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Flamingo are found in millions in Kenya. The lake's abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore. The lake's level dropped dramatically in the early 1990s but has since largely recovered. In 2013, the lake received an alarming increase in the water levels that led to the migration of flamingos to Lake Bogoria in search for food supply.
Image credits: Thomas Vijayan
#159 Arctic Fish (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Seeing an iceberg from an aerial view can be fascinating to look at. In this top-view angle, the iceberg resembles the shape of a fish. The small pond mimicking the eye of the fish, while the breaking ice in the tail helps to create the sense of movement of the fish's tail.
Image credits: Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn
#160 Water Plants And Fish At Cenote Car Wash (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Water plants and small fish at cenote Aktun Ha, known as Car Wash cenote in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The image was taken during the rain season, when the water becomes green and acts like a filter.
Image credits: Christian Vizl
#161 Oasis (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
Aerial abstract image from the central Utah desert, showing the side of a canyon, the tracks left by the path of water, and the reliefs as they can be seen only from above. The sandstone composing this area can be very colorful, sometimes red, sometimes yellow.. Shot vertically from 100 meters, at 28mm equivalent.
Image credits: Armand Sarlangue
#162 Dandelion (Remarkable Artwork In The Beauty Of Nature Category)
When I first saw this scene in my garden, I instantly knew that I was going to capture it. One year later it took me 3 weeks to get this image of a young ground squirrel nibbling dandelions, while a few seeds are scattered in the air.
Image credits: Bence Mate
#163 Girl In The Bubble (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
A portrait of a Belgian cosplay model who calls herself 'Girl in the Bubble' in an abandoned castle near Mons, Belgium. The photo was shot in a bedroom where I found the flowery wallpaper matching with her look. As an additional detail, I included the knob of a radiator that was originally attached to the wall but was removed.
Image credits: David Degelin
#164 Mood... (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
I captured this layered moment during sunrise along the banks of the Yamuna River in my city Delhi, India... During winters I am a regular visitor of this place.. On that day suddenly I realised that this boy was thinking something silently, and other side visitors were enjoying the loud musical chirping of thousands of seagulls. The early morning golden light from the east mixed with the western blue light, creating an ethereal atmosphere.
Image credits: Navin Kumar
#165 Mom (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
Photography became the only way of communicating with my mother after 35 years of separation. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and as she couldn't live alone anymore, three months ago she moved into my house.
Image credits: Marina Kazakova
#166 Roberta (Remarkable Artwork In Fascinating Faces And Characters Category)
To create this portrait I took inspiration from 50s noir films. The lights and mood present hint at Ellroy's novels.
Image credits: Fulvio Bellanca
#167 Cave Fishing (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
A father and his son are trying to catch fish inside a cave in South Vietnam during the monsoon season.
Image credits: Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn
#168 Environment Of Daily Life (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Daily life in Calcutta, on a winter morning, where the smoke creates a special atmosphere that frames a woman busy in her daily chores.
Image credits: Abir Choudhury
#169 Bishwa Ijtema, The Unity Of Muslim Community (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Bishwa Ijtema, this is one of largest congregration which gathers 5 millions of participant from the Muslim community, this grand event held annually in the banks of the River Turag Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bishwa Ijtema is considered a demonstration of Muslim solidarity, unity, and respect and an occasion to reiterate their commitment to Islamic values. This is an image when the praying process in progress.
Image credits: Kaan Yuan Chiam
#170 Traditions And Taboo (Remarkable Artwork In Journeys & Adventures Category)
This image shows the tradition of the Indian Dhangar community of throwing babies from the hands of priests, in order to grant the newborns longevity and health.
Image credits: Dashawatar Bade
#171 A Selfie On Eid Al-Fitr (Honorable Mention In Journeys & Adventures Category)
Veiled Thai muslim women take a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach wearing their best dresses on Eid al-Fitr on June 5, 2019 in Pattani, Thailand. Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Muslim holy month. Eid al-Fitr means the “ festival of breaking the fast.”
Image credits: Paula Bronstein
#172 Gea's Cry For Help (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
This photo was taken during a visit to a Bansky's exhibition. In that time the Amazon forest burned like never before, on the other side of the world. On the face of the "Girl with baloon "by Banksy, reproduced on a tent at the entrance of the exhibition, I saw the face of a desperate planet Earth, which launches its useless cry to an indifferent humanity.
Image credits: Stefania Stramondo
#173 Leap (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
A boy and his dog jump a small freshwater stream that cuts through the sand at Margaree Harbour Beach, Cape Breton Island.
Image credits: Paul Mcneill
#174 Good Morning (Honorable Mention In Street Photography Category)
New York on the day after the rain. While taking this picture of New York reflected in the water, a puppy greeted me among busy people.
Image credits: Wookeun Choi
#175 Jump (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
Children having fun and playing on the street in a village outside Addis Ababa.
Image credits: Xuebiao Yang
#176 Caught You On Tape (Remarkable Artwork In Street Photography Category)
A graffiti of a cameraman in the narrow lanes of the older part of the city of Kolkata made an intriguing subject for me. I was trying to spot something to relate the graffiti to, when suddenly a porter carrying heavy luggage on his head emerged from the dark lane.
Image credits: Shourjendra Datta
#177 The Horse (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
Horses are the symbol of freedom but we have made them our slaves, making them carry weights and work for us.
Image credits: Rishabh Gupta
#178 Street Play (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
3 generations on the ghats of Varanasi. It is the excitement of possibility that anything can happen anytime. It is the hope and belief that you have not taken your best shot yet. Knowing that probably you never will. Street Photography teaches me to be patient, to observe and perceive my surroundings more precisely and to meet the unexpected.
Image credits: Shridarshan Shukla
#179 Gentle Giants (Honorable Mention In Under 20 Category)
An elephant reaches the tip of their trunk forward, scanning the area. This photo was taken from a photographic hide at ground level, allowing me to get this unique angle. I made sure to move very slowly, so that the elephant would remain comfortable with my presence; Even though the elephants knew that I was there, they were still curious about me and the hide, so they kept coming closer and closer.
Image credits: Ankit Kumar
#180 Speed (Remarkable Artwork In Under 20 Category)
British Mark Cavendish is at speed behind a derny during the six-days cycling event at the Lee Valley Velodrome in London.
Image credits: Zac Goodwin
#181 Sunset Drink (Remarkable Artwork In Under 20 Category)
A herd of elephants gathers around a watering hole at sunset in Mashatu Reserve. The temperatures soared above 50°C, and the elephants were too busy drinking to acknowledge my presence, so I was able to sidle up to the edge of my hide to take photos.
Image credits: Ankit Kumar
#182 Sleep Of Homeless People (Remarkable Artwork In Under 20 Category)
There are many reasons for being homeless, such as crime, fear, natural disasters, but poverty is one of the most common. The lives of these people are so difficult that even if they want to rest they don't have a little shelter and often have to sleep among garbage.
Image credits: Muhammad Amdad Hossain
#183 Fresh Swordfish (Remarkable Artwork In Under 20 Category)
A fisherman drags a freshly caught swordfish and the head of another one across the beach to prepare for sale. These threatened fish are caught in large numbers every day together with other species like sailfish and different species of sharks.
Image credits: Jef Pattyn
#184 Fly Bars (Remarkable Artwork In Sports In Action Category)
Petro Pakhnyuk of Ukraine competes on the Parallel bars during the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s All-Around Finals event during Day nine of the 2nd European Games at the Minsk Arena.
Image credits: Dean Mouhtaropoulos
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