This year's National Geographic Travel Photography Contest is divided into three categories: Nature, People, and Cities. The first-place winner in each category will receive $2,500, second place $1,500, and third place $750. Below is Weimin Chu's photo "Winter in Greenland," which won the Grand Prize in the Cities category.
"Winter in Greenland" by photographer Weimin Chu
Second place in the Urban category was “Age of Flight” by Jassen Todorov, which shows a plane preparing to land on the runway at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
The work "The Age of Aviation"
The People’s Choice Award in the Urban category went to “Follow the Light” by Junhui Fang. The photo was taken at the Seda Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in the Larung Valley at an altitude of 4,000 meters, about 15 kilometers from Sertar Town, Garze, Tibet.
“Follow the light”
The People's Choice Award in the Nature category went to “Colorado River” by Stas Bartnikas, taken from a Cessna.
“Colorado River”
The People category's People's Choice Award went to Leo Kwok's “How to train your dragon” which depicts people from Meizhou, Guangdong province, China carrying lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
“Streets of Dhaka” is the name of the third prize winning photo in the Urban category taken by photographer Sandipani Chattopadhyay. The photo shows people praying on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh during Biswa Ijtema - the second largest Muslim festival in the country, after the pilgrimage to Mecca.
“Streets in Dhaka”
In the Nature category, the first prize went to “Tender Eyes” by Tamara Blazquez Haik, which captured a beautiful Griffon vulture in flight in Monfragüe National Park, Spain.
“Tender Eyes”
"Dream Catcher" is the second prize winner in the Nature category, taken by Danny Sepkowski at a beach in Hawaii.
"Dream Catcher"
Third place went to photographer Scott Portelli's "Dusky Dolphins." The photo was taken off the coast of Kaikoura in New Zealand's South Island.
"The Dusky Dolphins"
A herd of Alpine ibex in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, attempts to cross a ridge above Lake Brienz. Honorable mention in the Nature category by Jonas Schafer.
Honorable mention photo in the Nature category by Jonas Schafer.
First prize in the People category went to photographer Huaifeng Li for his work “Performance,” which captures actors in makeup preparing for an evening performance in Licheng County, Shanxi Province, China.
“Performance” by photographer Huaifeng Li
Coming in second in the People category was this photo of a middle-aged man exercising on a basketball court in the Choi Hung House apartment complex in Hong Kong, China. Photo by Yoshiki Fujiwara.
Photo taken in the Rainbow Apartment Complex (Choi Hung House) in Hong Kong
Coming in third in the People category was this photo of the Las Luminarias fire-riding festival - a traditional festival that dates back more than 500 years in Spain. Photo by Jose Antonio Zamora.
Las Luminarias Fire Riding Festival
"Mood" is the name of this photograph of a boy in deep thought, surrounded by thousands of seagulls flying around on the banks of the Yamuna River in Delhi, India. The photo won an honorable mention in the People category by Navin Vatsa.
The photo is titled "Mood"
