Travel Photographer of the Year 2016

A National Geographic realiza anualmente o concurso internacional Travel Photographer of the Year, no qual premeia as melhores fotografias nas categorias de Natureza, Cidades e Pessoas.
Os vencedores do concurso de 2016 já foram anunciados. Neste sentido, seguem-se algumas das fotos vencedoras do concurso de acordo com as respetivas categorias:

Categoria de Cidades:

1º Lugar:

Ben Youssef 

This photo was taken on my last trip to Guangzhou, China. This place is the school dormitories of South China Normal University. When I was hanging around, most of them were taking a break. After lunchtime, they needed to go back to study.

Fotografado e legendado por Wing Ka H, em Guangzhou, Guangdong Sheng, China.

2º Lugar:

Silenced 

This photo was taken on my last trip to Guangzhou, China. This place is the school dormitories of South China Normal University. When I was hanging around, most of them were taking a break. After lunchtime, they needed to go back to study.

Fotografado e legendado por Wing Ka H, em Guangzhou, Guangdong Sheng, China.

Categoria de Natureza:

1º Lugar:

Wherever You Go, I Will Follow 

It was when I drove back home feeling disappointed with the fact that I had finished the day in vain without any anticipated subject that I heard the joyful voice from the car window like “quack, quack!” There they were: red foxes. Around the end of the winter, they meet the season of love; they care for and love each other enough to make us jealous.

Fotografado e legendado por Hiroki Inoue, em Biei, Hokkaido, Japão.

2º Lugar:

Double Trapping

I was in the Brazilian Pantanal along the Rio Negrinho. I realized that the river, at certain points of the loops, created places where there were many yacare caimans. I saw a yacare sink suddenly, and I immediately looked for the best location to photograph when it resurfaced. The whole thing lasted only a fraction of a moment.

Fotografado e legendado por Massimiliano Bencivenni.

Categoria de Pessoas:

1º Lugar:

Winter Horseman

The winter in Inner Mongolia is very unforgiving. At a freezing temperature of minus 20 and lower, with a constant breeze of snow from all directions, it was pretty hard to convince myself to get out of the car and take photos. I saw horsemen showing off their skills and commanding the steed from a distance. I quickly grabbed my telephoto lens and captured the moment when one of the horsemen charged out from the morning mist.

Fotografado e legendado por Anthony Lau, na Mongólia.

3º Lugar:

Remote Life

An old woman in a remote village in Himachal Pradesh, India, carries a big log back home to warm up her house.

Fotografado e legendado por mattia passarini, em Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.