Photographers share their best shot

Each of us has favorite photos, and it does not matter what they depict - a person close to our heart, a beautiful landscape or a cute four-legged pet. Even the photographers themselves, both professionals and amateurs, have a favorite shot. As they say, a photograph will replace a thousand words, but who can tell about it better than the one who took it? So, favorite shots through the eyes and words of photographers.

(Total 21 photos)

1. Romulo Rayon: “I was on a sea cruise in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Watched dolphins, seals, moonfish, cormorants, and didn't even think about taking pictures. But then the captain threw a piece of fish from the boat, and I was lucky to photograph this pelican just at the moment when he was catching it.

2. Saumarik Dangwal: “I took this picture from the terrace of my house in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.”

3. Akif Tanzim: “After spending several hours chasing lightning, I managed to capture this amazing shot.”

4. Luis Pires: “I was in Munich a couple of years ago, and my mother and sister came to me for a couple of days. We decided to "close our eyes" to the cold and slippery roads and go to Neuschwanstein Castle, located a few hours drive from the city. When we got there, we saw that the weather had cleared up and were rewarded with amazing winter scenery. Moreover, there were practically no tourists around, which could not but rejoice.”

5. Lola Akinmade Akerström: “I was traveling through Cambodia as a photojournalist for a non-profit organization and one day in Phnom Penh we decided to visit the world heritage site Wat Phnom with its elephant park and monkeys living there. I noticed that tourists feed the monkeys with snacks, fast food and sweet soda. One man approached this monkey and handed her a can of Fanta, and she began to drink it so greedily, as if it were the drink of the gods.

6. Alex Birkill: “This is one of my favorite photographs, mainly because of the persistence with which I tried to take it, and the delight when I finally got what I wanted. Vancouver doesn't get temperature inversions this often, but we had a few days in January, although the fog cleared by noon. I've been wanting to take a picture like this for a long time, so when I saw that the weather would be like this today, I knew this was my chance to make it happen."

7. Kevin Davis: “This is my favorite shot. I made it from a car in Kosice, Slovakia. The most surprising was the weather that we had to endure during the journey. A snowstorm with almost zero visibility formed in the city between two mountains. Then we drove through the tunnel right up the mountain on our way to Suha Bela, a popular hiking trail. As we pulled out of the tunnel and saw the blue sky, I gasped. From a snowstorm and zero visibility to complete clarity, it's amazing, plus I just couldn't help but take a photo of white trees against a blue clear sky."

8. Michael Volozinovich: “I took this photo on Botany Bay Road, Edisto Island, South Carolina.”

9. Vasu Agarwal: “It took me a long time to make this picture perfect. My colleague agreed to take off his shirt on a cold February day in Dehradun, India. This is a light painting using a flashlight and a burning newspaper. In general, four people were needed to take this photo - two stood still, and two quickly ran with a flashlight and a newspaper.

10. Eirik Solgeim: “This photo consists of 3888 shots taken in the same place during the year. I stitched this photo together from one pixel wide stripes from each of the shots I took. January on the left, December on the right. The photo shows the view from my apartment in Oslo, Norway.”

11. Daniel Nakhabejan: “This is probably the best photo I have taken in recent years that I lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The picture was taken during the Loy Krathong Festival."

12. Jared Chung: “I had to stitch together about 24 frames to achieve the panoramic effect in this shot.”

13. Whitney Wooltenhume: "From a trip to Antelope Canyon in Arizona - an amazing and beautiful canyon."

14. David Sermon: “I love this photo. One of a series of photographs. I didn't process it."

15. Guy Nesher: “My best photo so far. I made it on a trip to the Bolivian salt marsh."

16. Aj Sethi: “I took this picture on a summer evening in my lady's backyard. This little "flashlight" glowed while sitting on the grass. Everything is natural in the picture, I did not use Photoshop.

17. Samath Mehrotra: “The photo was taken in Kodaikanal, India. It looks like the way to heaven (or how it is described in the books)."

18. Sanjay Nair: “I got the chance to photograph the ancient Stonehenge. I was lucky - the clouds and the sun were playing hide and seek. True, I had to wait to get the best shot.

19. Matteo Allegro: "Young Mongol proudly stands in the middle of the Gobi Desert."

20. Phil Strahl: "It's hard to choose a favorite shot, but this one turned out great."

21. Spencer Bryan: “My friend took this photo of me and our new friend in Machu Picchu. The photo was taken on an iPhone 4.