Approximately 8,000 photos from photographers around the world were submitted to the 2017 Best Drone Photography Contest.
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| Winning the 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 goes to Calin Stan, a Romanian photographer, for his work "The Endless Road to Transylvania." The photograph captures the winding Cheia DN1A road through the forest canopy leading to Transylvania, Romania. Calin Stan humorously describes his photograph: "This is exactly what Count Dracula saw on his nightly flight." |
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| Florian Ledoux's photograph of icebergs off the eastern coast of Greenland came in third place. 2017 marked the fourth time the drone photography contest was held. |
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| In the People category, Martin Sanchez from the United States won with his photograph of people playing tennis on a 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 author, the account helios1412, with a stunning photograph of a woman picking water lilies in a pond in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Professional and amateur photographers from around the world submitted approximately 8,000 photos to the contest across four categories: Nature, Urban, People, and Creative. |
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| This is the third-place photo in the People category. The photo captures the La Vijanera winter festival in the town of Silió in Cantabria, Spain. The photographer is Javier Bustamante, a Spaniard. |
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| In the Urban Photography category, Bachir Moukarzel from the UAE took first place with his photograph of a beautiful sunset in Dubai. The author noted that this area was once a desolate wasteland, but in just the last 10 years, numerous skyscrapers have sprung up. |
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| This photo, taken by Alexey Goncharov from Russia, was captured while he was sitting on a bench in the Moscow International Trade Center. The reflection in the glass gives the viewer the impression that the workers are cleaning the entire city, not just the building's windows. The photo won second place. |
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| Third place went to the photograph "Peace" by Luis Saguar Domingo from Spain. The judges for this competition were experts and renowned photographers from National Geographic. |
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| The author, Rga, and her two sons drew a boat on the sand, then used a drone to capture the image. The photograph won first prize in the Creative Photography category. |
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| Macareuxprod with his photograph "The Next Level," taken on the beach. This photo is considered the photographer's way of announcing his girlfriend's pregnancy to his relatives. |
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| The photographer, Luke Bell, shared that this photo was taken on a cold morning at a farm near Stellenbosch, South Africa. The long shadows of the two cows on the water prompted him to quickly control his drone to capture this moment. |
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