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BBC News
31-01-2025
- BBC News
Travel Photographer of the Year: The winning pictures
The top pictures from the 2024 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) have been revealed. The competition celebrates the beauty of different cultures and landscapes. More than 20,000 pictures were sent in from photographers from more than 150 countries. Now that's a lot of competition!Let's take a look at some of the wonderful winning pictures, from adults and young photographers too. The overall Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 winner, Piper Mackay, takes her photos using infrared, which captures wavelengths not visible to the human eye. TPOTY founder Chris Coe said: "They are beautifully composed, celebrating both indigenous women and wildlife on the African savanna."Piper, who lives in Kenya, said: "This award completes my life's passion and work across Africa for more than two decades. There is no higher honour!" Young photographers shine The competition also celebrates the stars of the future through the Young TPOTY awards. This year the winners and placed photographers come from six different countries. The awards' first overall winner from China was 14-year-old Raymond took the title of Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 for his portfolio of an old steam train and its drivers in the heart of the action. The winner of the Young TPOTY 14 years and under category is Leonardo Murray from Australia. He shot his winning images of sand dunes on a trip around Namibia with his father, who is a professional photographer. The winner of the Young TPOTY age 15-18 was Maksymilian Paczkowski. He captured this fantastic photo of a partridge - which he says can be quite rare to see in Poland. To get the picture he had to wait, camouflaged, for the bird to appear. He said: "Photographing it against the rising sun, I also captured steam rising from its beak." The runner-up in the Young TPOTY age 15-18 was Vlad took this photograph at Cuejdel lake in said: "Trees reflected in the lake create a beautiful view and, if you are lucky enough, you can also have a little fog on the surface of the water." The winner for best single image in Wildlife, Nature and Underwater portfolio was Joshua Holko from Australia. His picture shows a Pallas cat lying flat in the snow at first is their method for camouflage after most likely being out hunting all night. The cat is covered in frost due to the freezing temperatures of the Mongolian winter.
CNN
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Winning images of Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 capture beauty of world's landscapes and cultures
A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow in Mongolia are among the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. Taken together, the remarkable portfolio of winning photos reveals 'an incredible visual journey around the world, capturing its breathtaking moods and colours,' said a statement released by the competition's organizers Sunday. American photographer Piper Mackay won the overall prize for her photos that all share a distinctive hue, having been shot with an infrared light. This technique lends an ethereal quality to her portraits of African women as well as her photos of giraffes crossing grassy plains in Kenya. Mackay said in the statement that 'this award completes my life's passion and work across Africa for more than two decades.' She added that her philosophy is to 'never let the photo dictate your experience, always let the experience dictate the photo.' Judges sifted through more than 20,000 images submitted by photographers from more than 150 countries to crown Mackay the overall winner. They rewarded other entries in individual categories too. Mexican photographer Maricruz Sainz de Aja won the 'Faces, People, Cultures' category for her images depicting the life of the Wauga tribe in Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the UK's Jenny Stock picked up first place in the 'Wildlife, Nature and Underwater' category for her photos portraying the cold, ruthless majesty of crocodiles in Cuba. China's Raymond Zhang won the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award for his evocative photos of workers and trains at a Chinese coal mine, while 12-year-old Leonardo Murray won the under 14 category for capturing the abstract shapes of dunes in the Namib Desert. All the winning photos can be viewed on the competition's website and at an exhibition at The Banbury Museum and Galleries near Oxford, United Kingdom, between March 29 and July 7. The exhibition will then travel to the United Arab Emirates and Changsha, China.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Winning images of Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 capture beauty of world's landscapes and cultures
A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow in Mongolia are among the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. Taken together, the remarkable portfolio of winning photos reveals 'an incredible visual journey around the world, capturing its breathtaking moods and colours,' said a statement released by the competition's organizers Sunday. American photographer Piper Mackay won the overall prize for her photos that all share a distinctive hue, having been shot with an infrared light. This technique lends an ethereal quality to her portraits of African women as well as her photos of giraffes crossing grassy plains in Kenya. Mackay said in the statement that 'this award completes my life's passion and work across Africa for more than two decades.' She added that her philosophy is to 'never let the photo dictate your experience, always let the experience dictate the photo.' Judges sifted through more than 20,000 images submitted by photographers from more than 150 countries to crown Mackay the overall winner. They rewarded other entries in individual categories too. Mexican photographer Maricruz Sainz de Aja won the 'Faces, People, Cultures' category for her images depicting the life of the Wauga tribe in Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the UK's Jenny Stock picked up first place in the 'Wildlife, Nature and Underwater' category for her photos portraying the cold, ruthless majesty of crocodiles in Cuba. China's Raymond Zhang won the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award for his evocative photos of workers and trains at a Chinese coal mine, while 12-year-old Leonardo Murray won the under 14 category for capturing the abstract shapes of dunes in the Namib Desert. All the winning photos can be viewed on the competition's website and at an exhibition at The Banbury Museum and Galleries near Oxford, United Kingdom, between March 29 and July 7. The exhibition will then travel to the United Arab Emirates and Changsha, China.
CNN
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Winning images of Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 capture beauty of world's landscapes and cultures
A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow in Mongolia are among the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. Taken together, the remarkable portfolio of winning photos reveals 'an incredible visual journey around the world, capturing its breathtaking moods and colours,' said a statement released by the competition's organizers Sunday. American photographer Piper Mackay won the overall prize for her photos that all share a distinctive hue, having been shot with an infrared light. This technique lends an ethereal quality to her portraits of African women as well as her photos of giraffes crossing grassy plains in Kenya. Mackay said in the statement that 'this award completes my life's passion and work across Africa for more than two decades.' She added that her philosophy is to 'never let the photo dictate your experience, always let the experience dictate the photo.' Judges sifted through more than 20,000 images submitted by photographers from more than 150 countries to crown Mackay the overall winner. They rewarded other entries in individual categories too. Mexican photographer Maricruz Sainz de Aja won the 'Faces, People, Cultures' category for her images depicting the life of the Wauga tribe in Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the UK's Jenny Stock picked up first place in the 'Wildlife, Nature and Underwater' category for her photos portraying the cold, ruthless majesty of crocodiles in Cuba. China's Raymond Zhang won the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award for his evocative photos of workers and trains at a Chinese coal mine, while 12-year-old Leonardo Murray won the under 14 category for capturing the abstract shapes of dunes in the Namib Desert. All the winning photos can be viewed on the competition's website and at an exhibition at The Banbury Museum and Galleries near Oxford, United Kingdom, between March 29 and July 7. The exhibition will then travel to the United Arab Emirates and Changsha, China.
