Travel Photographer of the Year 2016: Winners (TPOTY)

1. Joel Santos, Portugal Winner,
Travel Photographer of the Year
2016 Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti,
Ghana The Ashanti people fish
from the traditional wooden
padua.

2. Biran Zhao, China. Winner, Shaped by Light. Every morning and regardless of the season, these nuns walk around the mountain in Baiyu County, Ganzi, Sichuan Province, China

3. Alison Cahill, UK, Winner, New Talent, Eye to Eye. Fitri
working on a client at Son & Dad Barbers in George
Town, Penang, Malaysia, while his wife waits patiently.

4. Craig Easton, UK Winner, Land, Sea, Sky portfolio West
Kirby, Wirral, UK A lone Buddhist monk walks around
the boundary wall of the West Kirby Marine Lake.

5. Michele Palazzo, Italy. Winner, Cities: Architecture and Spaces.
While walking through the Jonas snowstorm that swept across
the east coast, I captured this shot of New York’s famous Flatiron
building against a backdrop of swirling snow

6. Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner, Travel
Photographer of the Year 2016. This
aerial image offers a rare glimpse inside
of Erta Ale volcano – which means
‘Smoking Mountain’ in the local Afar
language – in Danakil, Ethiopia

7. Ankit Kumar, India. Winner, Young Travel
Photographer of the Year (14 and under).
Mount Lengai towers next to Lake Natron,
Tanzania, where flamingos flock to feed

8. Lluís Salvadó, Spain Winner,
Best Single Image in a Journeys
& Adventures portfolio San
Bartolomé de Pinares, Spain
Each January 16, the festival of
Saint Anton takes place in San
Bartolomé de Pinares.

9. Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel
Photographer of the Year 2016 Salt
Desert, Danakil Depression, Afar,
Ethiopia This unique aerial photo shows
the salt miners guiding a dromedary and
donkey caravan through this desert's
unique salt patterns.

10. Jeremy Woodhouse, UK
Winner – Best Single
Image in a Mankind
Portfolio Coltesti, Romania
This elderly woman was
cutting grass from a small
plot to feed her livestock.

11. Ruiyuan Chen, China
Winner, Mankind portfolio
Daliang Mountains,
Sichaun province, China
Portraits of the ethnic Yi
people, who live in great
poverty.

12. Craig Easton, UK. Winner, Land,
Sea, Sky portfolio. Looking east on
a blissfully calm winter’s day
towards walkers along the
boundary wall of the West Kirby
Marine Lake on the Wirral, UK

13. Marina Spironetti, Italy
Winner, Smart Shot Paris,
France Two women
waiting for the 14th July
parade on the Champs
Elysées.

14. Darpan Basak, India (age 14) Winner, Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Chadipur, India From land to sea – joy to eternity.

15. Courtney Moore, USA (age 18) Winner, Young TPOTY 15-18 Island Beach
State Park, New Jersey, USA On a particularly windy day, this fox was sitting
only a few yards away from the ocean as sand pelted against his fur

16. Luke Massey, UK Winner,
Wildlife & Nature Sierra de
Andújar National Park,
Andalucia, Spain In 2001
there were less than 100
Iberian lynx left in the wild.
Fifteen years later there are
now more than 400, but it is
still, unfortunately, the
rarest cat in the world.

17. Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Lake Bosumtwi,
Ashanti, Ghana The Ashanti people fish from the traditional wooden padua.

18. Ankit Kumar, India. Winner,
Young Travel Photographer of
the Year (14 and under). Mount
Lengai towers next to Lake
Natron, Tanzania, where
flamingos flock to feed

19. Beniamino Pisati, Italy Winner, Journeys &
Adventures portfolio Bayankhongor, Mongolia
Horses are present in all aspects of life in
Mongolia. A popular saying is: “A Mongol
without a horse is like a bird without wings”.

20. Alison Cahill, UK Winner, New
Talent, Eye to Eye Son & Dad
Barbers, George Town, Penang,
Malaysia Portrait of Elyas the head
barber and owner of Son & Dad.

21. Sue O’Connell, UK. Special
Mention, Mankind. These
saddhus may have travelled
great distances to attend the
mighty Kumbh Mela, a mass
Hindu pilgrimage, in
Haridwar, northern India

22. Marsel van Oosten, Netherlands. Special
Mention, Mankind. A farm worker rows
out to inspect the nets of a large crab
farm in the sea at Xiapu, Fujian, China

23. Magdaléna Straková, Czech Republic
Special Mention, Wildlife & Nature
Prague Zoo, Prague, Czech Republic This
flamingo was photographed early in the
morning in January, when few people
visit.

24. Sergey Pesterev, Russia. Special Mention, Land, Sea, Sky portfolio

25. Timothy Allen, UK. Runner-up, Journeys and
Adventures portfolio. Caravans at sunset on
a pilgrimage to El Rocío in Andalucía, Spain

26. Timothy Allen, UK Runner-
up, Journeys & Adventures
portfolio Andalucia, Spain
Pilgrimage to El Rocío:
celebrating at the end of
the four-day journey.

27. Jeremy Woodhouse, UK. Highly
Commended, Shaped by Light. This baker
in Viñales, Cuba, was icing a cake as the
setting sun shone through the door,
casting his shadow onto the wall

28. Craig Easton, UK. Special
Mention, Mankind.
Madame Cancy selling
popcorn at the small
Cancy Family Touring
Circus in Monpazier,
Dordogne, France.

29. Zhiwen Huang, China. Special
Mention, Cities: Architecture
and Spaces. A rising red moon
watching over the bridge across
the bay in Shenzhen city, China

30. Martin Siering, Germany
Special Mention, Land, Sea,
Sky Komba Island, Indonesia
The eruptions of Batu Tara
volcano are extremely loud,
big and powerful, so that the
whole island quakes.

31. Dominic Byrne, Ireland Highly Commended, Cities: Architecture & Spaces Astana, Kazakhstan An image of an interesting art installation composed in a way to give a War of the Worlds feel to a nearby modern tower

32. Raimondo Norberto Giamberduca, Italy Highly Commended, New Talent, Eye to Eye Jokkmokk, Sweden Reindeer race.

33. Zijie Gong, China (age 16)
Runner-up, Young TPOTY 15-18
Between Sichuan and Tibet,
China A life of freedom for young
children.

34. Kyle Adler, USA Joint Runner-up, Wildlife & Nature
This alligator lay out in the middle of the waterway
seeking what little sunshine was offered on a cloudy
December day as we sailed by

35. (Photo: www.tpoty.com/Marco Urso)

36. Panos Laskarakis, Greece
Runner-up, Mankind
portfolio Volakas, Falakro
Mountain, Greece
Mysterious and ancient
celebrations in the forests
on the mountain.

37. Rudi Sebastian, Germany Joint Runner-up Wildlife & Nature Berlin,
Germany In a small pond at the rural border of Berlin, male moor
frogs in their bright blue mating colour try to mate with a common
toad, which almost drowned. It took about 30 minutes before she
managed to free herself and reach dry ground.

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