The Red Bull Illume photo contest received more than 36,000 entries, with unique moments that readers couldn't take their eyes off.
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This photo was taken by Lorenz Holder in Gablenz, Germany. It won first prize in the 2016 Illume photo contest. |
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Norwegian photographer Vegard Aasen won the mobile phone category with this photo in the mountains of Hakuba, Japan. |
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Alexandre Voyer captured the moment Marianne Aventurier came face to face with a giant shark in the Azores islands, Portugal. |
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The formation of pilots Miroslav Krejci, Jan Rudzinskyi, Stanislav Cejka and Jan Tvrdic in Jaromêř, Czech Republic as seen by Daniel Vojtêch. |
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Micky Wiswedel captured Jamie Smith falling off a cliff while searching for a new route up Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Ale Di Lullo won the Creativity award for his photo of Aaron Chase speeding past a car in Brooklyn, USA. |
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Canadian Jody MacDonald won the Lifestyle award for her photo of her brother, Ken MacDonald, on a ship during a journey through the Sahara Desert. |
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Jean-Baptiste Chandelier paraglides amid the stunning scenery of the Lac du Pontet range (France) in this photo by Tristan Shu. |
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Pilot Francois Le Vot performs acrobatic stunt in this photo by Balazs Palfi in Budapest, Hungary. |
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Vernon Deck captured the moment Iker Fernandez glided through the snow in St. Moritz, Switzerland. |
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Beau Pilgrim surfing Namotu Island (Fiji) in this photo by Stuart Gibson. |
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Ken Etzel photographed Wiz Fineron climbing a cliff in the Grampians, Australia. |
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A wonderful work by Lorenz Holder, featuring skateboarder Conny Mirbach from Riem, Germany. |
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Arthur Longo, Gjermund Braaten and Ludwig Biltoft among soccer balls in Kitzsteinhorn (Austria) in a photo by Markus Rohrbacher. |
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Guillaume Nery plunges into the deep waters of a cave in Tulum, Mexico. This photo was taken by Klaus Thymann. |
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Dean Treml captured the moment Nicholi Rogatkin fell off a rock in Utah, USA. |
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Rahel Schelb climbs a giant iceberg in Iceland under the magical light of the Northern Lights, as captured by Tim Kemple. |
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Frank Kretschmann captured a peaceful moment as athletes Mayan Smith Gobat and Ben Rueck rested in Piedra Riscada, Brazil. |
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Lorenz Holder captured Cedric Romanens performing at an unusual location in Laax, Switzerland. |
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Kuba Konwent photographed the skydiving group including Bartosz Staskiewicz, Sebastian Dratwa, Marta Molinska, Jan Kaczmarczyk, Sen Marcin and Agnieszka Rom in the sky over Kazimierz Biskupi, Poland. |
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