2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
National Geographic Traveler magazine has selected the winning shots for this year’s Traveler Photo Contest. It’s a series of images of our world that dazzles your eyes and stirs your imagination. The 2015 Traveler Photo Contest judges reviewed nearly 18,000 photographs, and ten pictures won top prizes.
Winner of the first prize, Anuar Patjane Floriuk of Tehuacán, Mexico, won first prize for his underwater shot of divers swimming close to a humpback whale near Roca Partida, an island off of the western coast. Floriuk will receive an eight-day photo expedition for two to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal for a photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale off the western coast of Mexico.
“The photo wasn’t planned,” said Floriuk “I was taking photos near the head of the whale, and all of a sudden she began to swim toward the rest of the diving team. The divers gave the whale and her calf space, and I just clicked at the moment when the flow and composition seemed right.”
Here, National Geographic has shared all of this year’s winners, gathered from four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments. Captions by the photographers.
Grand Prize: “Whale Whisperer”
Second Place: “Gravel Workmen”
Third Place: “Camel Ardah”
“A Night at Deadvlei”
“Catching a Duck”
Kushti, Indian Wrestling
White Rhinos
Sauna in the Sky
Highlanders
Romania, Land of Fairy Tales
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- Diving with a humpback whale and her new born calf while they cruise around Roca Partida Island, in Revillagigedo, Mexico. This is an outstanding and unique place full of pelagic life so we need to accelerate the incorporation of this islands into UNESCO as natural heritage site in order to increase the protection of the islands against the prevailing ilegal fishing corporations and big game fishing.
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- Whitefrost over Pestera village in Romania
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- A sauna at 2.800 mt high, in the heart of Dolomites. Monte Lagazuoi, Cortina, eastern Italian Alps.
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- 2 boys are trying to catch a duck at the stream of the waterfall
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- The night before returning to Windhoek, we spent several hours at Deadveli. The moon was bright enough to illuminate the sand dunes in the distance, but the skies were still dark enough to clearly see the milky way and magellanic clouds. Deadveli means “dead marsh.” The camelthorn trees are believed to be about 900 years old, but have not decomposed because the environment is so dry.
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- ( Camel Ardah) As it called in Oman, its one of the traditional styles of camel racing between two camels controlled by expert men, the faster camel is the loser one, so they must be running by the same speed level in the same track
