Surpassing more than 15,000 works from around the world, the photos that won the 2017 NatGeo Travel Photographer award all have beautiful effects, evoking many emotions in viewers.
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| A stunning image of a lightning bolt striking the black smoke of an erupting volcano made Sergio Tapiro Velasco the winner of the 2017 NatGeo Travel Photographer of the Year contest. The photo is titled“The Power of Nature”A photo of an erupting volcano from 12 km away won both the Nature category and the Grand Prize title. |
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| Tetsuya Hashimoto with a photo of a building in Japan. This year's photo contest attracted more than 15,000 works from authors in more than 30 countries and territories. |
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| Norbet Fritz won the Urban category with this sci-fi-like photo of a library in Stuttgart, Germany. |
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| A simple yet heartwarming moment of father-son bonding was captured by Jobit George at a mosque in New Delhi, India. The photo won an award in the People category. |
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| To capture this photo, photographer Shane Gross set up his camera on a rock and used a remote trigger to capture sharks in their natural habitat. |
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| Reynold Riksa Dewantara with this photo of a volcano in East Java, Indonesia. The authors competed in three categories: Nature, People, and Urban. |
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| Andrzej Bochenski's “New City in the Desert” shows the incredible orderliness of Muhafazat al-Buraimi in Oman |
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| Through the photo “Walled City”, author Andy Yeung wanted to show the cramped living conditions in Hong Kong (China). Kowloon Walled City was once the most densely populated place on Earth. Hundreds of houses were stacked on top of each other, many people lived in cramped, narrow spaces with no light. Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the 1990s. The photo won second prize in the Urban category. |
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| “Man on Train” by Moin Ahmed won the People category. The photo was taken at Tongi Railway Station in Gazipur, Bangladesh. |
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| Photographer Yutaka Takafuji captured the mystical and magical scene as fireflies lit up the path leading up to a shrine in Tamba, Japan on a summer evening. |
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| Michael Dean Morgan captured the stillness at a temple on the south side of Mount Agung, in Bali, Indonesia, where people often come to pray and receive blessings from monks. |
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| The photo of a flock of swans flying over water is titled “Life”. Photo by Hiromi Cano. |
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| Are You Looking at Me? Julius Y came in second place in the People category for his interesting moment of a visitor looking intently at a painting. The subject's gaze seems to be curiously looking at the person outside. |
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| You might have to look twice to really understand what's going on in Rodney Bursiel's image. The effect of the waves surrounding a surfer in the waters off Tavarua, Fiji is stunning. |
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