Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

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The results of the international travel photography competition Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 have been announced in the UK. Among the best works were pictures of a snow-covered street in New York and a water farm in China, as well as other stunning photos. They will be exhibited in the English city of Kingston upon Hull as part of the celebration of the Festival of culture from May 18 to June 30, 2017.

The Travel Photographer of the Year competition has been held since 2003. It involves both professional photographers and amateurs from around the world.

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Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest
Source: The Guardian

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest. Fisherman on Lake Bosumtvi, Ashanti, Ghana. Tradition requires that fish be caught only from wooden planks, which are called padua, by the same method used by the ancestors.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner of the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest. This photo taken from the air shows a rare view of the mouth of the Erta Ale volcano, which means "smoking mountain" in the local Afar dialect. Danakil, Ethiopia.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Ankit Kumar, India. Winner in the nomination "Young Travel Photographer of the Year" (14 years and younger). Near Lake Natron in Tanzania, where flamingos flock in search of food, Mount Lengai rises.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Michele Palazzo, Italy. Winner in the nomination "Cities: architecture and spaces". Walking during the snow hurricane "Jonas", which raged on the east coast of the United States, the photographer shot the famous Flatiron Building skyscraper against the background of a swirling blizzard.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Biran Zhao, China. Winner in the nomination "Chiaroscuro" (Shaped by Light). Every morning, regardless of the season, these monks walk around the mountain in Bayu County, Ganzi, Sichuan Province, China.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Alison Cahill, Great Britain, winner in the nominations "New talent", "Face to face". Fitri works with a client at Son's barbershop & Dad Barbers in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Craig Easton, UK. Winner in the category "Portfolio with land, sea and sky". The eastern part of the enclosing wall of an artificial lake in West Kirby on a calm winter day, Wirral, Great Britain.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Craig Easton, UK. The special prize is "Humanity". Madame Kangxi sells popcorn at a small family traveling circus in Montpazier, Dordogne, France.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Jeremy Woodhouse, UK. High rating, "Chiaroscuro". A pastry chef in Vinales, Cuba, covers a cake with icing in the sunset rays penetrating the doorway.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Sue O'Connell, UK. Special prize "Humanity". These sadhus have traveled great distances to participate in the great Kumbha mela, a massive Hindu pilgrimage, in Haridwar, Northern India.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Marcel van Oosten, Netherlands. Special prize "Humanity". A farmer sails on a boat, checking the nets of a large crab farm in the sea in Xiapu, Fujian, China.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Sergey Pesterev, Russia. Special prize "Portfolio with land, sea and sky". Sunset on Lake Baikal with large ice fragments.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Timothy Allen, Great Britain. Second place in the nomination "Portfolio with travel and adventures". Caravans at sunset during a pilgrimage to El Rocio, Andalusia, Spain.

Fabulous travel photos that won the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest

Zhiweng Huang, China. Special prize "Cities: architecture and spaces". The rising red moon illuminates the bridge across the strait in Shenzhen, China.

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