For the past 21 years, amateur and professional photographers from around the world have been capturing nature’s beauty as part of the annual International Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) awards.
This year’s competition involved photographers from 150 countries and more than 20,000 images, which were submitted and reviewed by judges. The winning photos will be displayed at The Photography & Video Show in Birmingham.
Judges chose Slovenian photographer AndreJa Ravnak, an architect by trade, as the overall winner for her work which captures dream-like European landscapes.
“In early spring, the soil is still too cold for growth. An interesting pattern occurred while a new orchard was planted on the slope of the hill, making the scene very abstract,” stated Ravnak.
Among the other winners was Athanasios Maloukos in the “People and Cultures” category for his photos of shamans performing rituals to connect with spirits in Siberia. Martin Broen won in the “Nature, Wildlife & Conservation” for his photo series of the Mobula Ray migration in Mexico.
