National Geographic Magazine has announced the winners for their 2013 traveler photo contest. In the 25th year of the contest, the 15.500 different submissions from all around the world are evaluated in four categories: travel portraits, outdoor scenes, sense of place, and spontaneous moments.
The frames from all the corners of the world reflect all the aspects of the planet. The spontaneous human moments, encountering animals, stunning visuals; are evaluated by an expert jury and photographers of the top three photographs with seven merit choices will appear in the december ‘13 / january ‘14 issue of national geographic traveler magazine.
”Brazilian Aquathlon”
First Place Winner by Wagner Araujo during Brazilian Aquathlon(swimming and running contest)
Location: Manaus, Brazil
Category: Outdoor Scenes
”Thunderstorm at False Kiva”
Second Place Winner by Max Seigal in Utah
Location: Utah
Category: Sense of Place
”Say Cheese”
Third Place Winner by Yanai Bonneh in Kenya. There are cheetas on the tourists’ vehicles
Location: Masai Mara National Park, Kenya
Category: Sense of Place
Here are Merit Winners:
”Lady in the Water” by Marcelo Salvador
Location: Bagan, Myanmar
Category: Outdoor Scenes
”Portrait of an Eastern Screech Owl” by Graham McGeorge
Location: Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA
Category: Outdoor Scenes
”Children of Reindeer” by Michelle Schantz
Location: Magerøya, Norway
Category: Travel Portraits
”Sakura” by Hideyuki Katagiri
Location: Seiunji-temple,Arakawa,Saitama,Japan
Category: Outdoor Scenes
”The Tata Honda Sect” by Gergely Lantai-Csont
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category: Travel Portraits
”Piano Play at Sunset” by Nikola Smernic
Location: Queenstown, New Zealand
Category: Travel Portraits
”Guanjiang Shou” by Chan Kwok Hung .
Location: Taichung, Taiwan
Category: Travel Portraits
”Another Perspective of the Day” by Dody Kusuma
Location: taken from bira beach -Makasar – South Sulawesi – Indonesia
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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