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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