The Travel Photographer Of The Year showcases the beauty and diversity of life on our planet and this year it awarded 138 winning shots chosen from more than 20,000 images submitted by photographers in 151 countries.
The Overall Winner is Fortunato Gatto, an Italian photographer based since 2007 in Scotland, for his sumptuous, detailed abstract images of patterns in the sand which form part of his winning selection that also includes shots of a ‘meeting of the seasons’ in Alaska that draw you in with a wonderful sense of place to one of the planet’s most beautiful and remote places.
“I took this picture just before a grizzly bear showed up,” the photographer recalls. “The fresh snow covering the mountains in the background was the perfect frame for this special meeting between autumn and winter.”Photo: Alain Schroeder, Belgium - Travel Photographer Of The Year The players train their horses to muscle out other horses in the pack while they themselves wrestle each other to snatch the goat and gallop toward the goal, slamming into the rubber tires that encircle the meter-high mound. Most villages throughout the country have a playing field and some boast official stadiums.
This young Muslim girl had her face completely covered, although her graceful features can be seen through the fabric. She looked at a nearby man, seeking consent to remove her veil, which he gave her permission to do. The photo was taken at the exact moment she was about to push aside the red veil. The Danakil, 120 meters below sea level, is the hottest place on the planet. Temperatures can rise to over 50 degrees Celsius in summer and these people have adapted to cope.Park, Yukon, Canada.At the Arctic Circle, there’s a place in Northern Yukon where the Fishing Branch River doesn't freeze in winter. Here, grizzly bears continue to chase salmon long beyond other Canadian locations.
Lake Magadi is one of the inland lakes at the southernmost point of Kenya, in the Rift Valley and formed by fault subsidence. During the dry season, it’s 80% covered by sodium carbonate and is well known for its wading birds, including flamingos. Due to the close proximity of the Pacific Ocean, snow sticks to the mountains of southeast Alaska like nowhere else on earth. This creates a phenomenon called 'spines' which form on top of the normally steep and rocky mountain faces. This provides professional free-ride skiers with a wholly unique challenge.
Scorched Earth and Broken Spirits at Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya: After a long walk, a pride of lions rests on a surviving patch of grass after a fire destroyed most of their territory. The pride was on the move to an area with grass, where they could hide and hunt in the vegetation.Photo: Ngar Shun Victor Wong, Hong Kong - Travel Photographer of the Year
“For this shot, the zebra faced me just as another walked behind it, making an almost symmetric background around its head,” the photographer says.Photo: Trevor Cole, Ireland - Travel Photographer of the Year
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