About 8,000 photos from authors around the world were submitted to the 2017 best drone photo contest.
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| Taking top spot in the Nature category was “Summer Trim,” a photograph of a lavender field in Provence, France, by Jerome Courtial. |
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| Second place went to The Endless Road to Transylvania by Romanian photographer Calin Stan. The photo shows the Cheia DN1A road winding through the forest canopy leading to Transylvania, Romania. Calin Stan humorously said of his photo: “This is exactly what Count Dracula sees on his nightly flight path.” |
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| Florian Ledoux's photo of icebergs off the east coast of Greenland came in third place. 2017 marks the fourth year of the drone photography contest. |
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| In the People category, Martin Sanchez from the US won with this photo of players on a tennis court in New Jersey. The photo contest was organized by Dronestagram, a social network dedicated to aerial photography. |
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| Second place went to an anonymous photographer, helios1412, with a stunning photo of a woman picking water lilies in a pond in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Professional and amateur photographers from around the world submitted around 8,000 photos in four categories: Nature, Urban, People and Creativity. |
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| This photo is the 3rd runner-up in the People category. The photo shows the La Vijanera winter festival taking place in the town of Silió in Cantabria, Spain. The photographer is Javier Bustamante, Spain. |
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| In the Urban category, Bachir Moukarzel from the UAE took first place with this photo of a beautiful sunset in Dubai. The author said the area used to be a desolate wasteland, but in the last 10 years, many skyscrapers have sprung up. |
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| This photo was taken by Alexey Goncharov, from Russia, while sitting on a bench in the Moscow International Trade Center. The reflection in the glass makes it seem like the workers are cleaning the entire city, not just the windows of the building. The photo won second place. |
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| Third place went to the photo “Peace” by Luis Saguar Domingo, Spain. The judges of this contest were famous experts and photographers of National Geographic. |
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| Author Rga and his two sons drew a picture of a boat on the sand, then used a drone to take a picture. The photo won first prize in the Creative category. |
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| Macareuxprod with the photo “Next Level”, taken on the beach. This photo is considered the photographer's announcement of his girlfriend's pregnancy to relatives. |
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| Author Luke Bell shared that this photo was taken on a cold morning on a farm near Stellenbosch, South Africa. The long shadows of two cows on the water made the author quickly control the drone to capture this moment. |
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