The Top Award-Winning Travel Photos

The Minch, Western Isles, Scotland. This is a series of images called ‘Dreich’ – an old Scottish word to describe the wet, grey, miserable, dank.
Craig Easton, UK,
Camera: Nikon D3X
Winner: the Cutty Sark Award for the Travel Photographer of the Year 2012
The Cutty Sark Award for the overall winner is presented by Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky. They are rewarding Craig with £2,500 in cash, an expenses-paid international photography commission with £2,500 commission fee, and the chance to work with their master blender and blend his own whisky, design his own label, and bottle up to 50 bottles of the resulting unique blend. Though he lives in England, Craig is a Scotsman by birth, so this should be entirely appropriate for him!

Paris, France. French privacy laws now dictate that I had to ensure that no-one was recognisable in the images, which led me to the idea of silhouettes against an iconic background.
      Craig Easton, UK
      Camera: Nikon D3X 100
      Winner: the Cutty Sark Award for the Travel Photographer of the Year 2012

Siberia, Russia. Yamalo Nemets’ winter camp in the tundra. This young girl collects wood in the forest.
Alessandra Meniconzi, Switzerland
Camera: Canon EOS 1DS Mk3
Winner, New Talent award For her success in the New Talent category ‘Another World’,
Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland) – a graphic designer, teacher and semi-professional photographer, who is hoping to become a full-time photographer - wins a trip to the Gnaoua and World Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco with sustainable travel specialists Tribes Travel, a Fujifilm FinePix X100 camera, Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio book or iFolio, plus a Digimarc for Images Professional Edition subscription and Adobe Photoshop CS6 software. 

Groundnut harvest near Bagan, Burma
Philip Lee Harvey, UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk2
Winner, People Watching portfolio

Groundnut harvest near Bagan, Burma

Philip Lee Harvey, UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk2
Winner, People Watching portfolio

 

Black sand beaches near the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland.
Joshua Holko, Australia
Camera: Canon EOS 1DS MK3
Highly Commended, One Shot ’Water’ (single image category)

 

Kara tribe warrior, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
Jan Schlegel, Germany
Camera: Ebony field SV45T1 4 x 5 inch camera
Runner-up, People Watching portfolio
The Runners-up in each portfolio category win a Digimarc for Images Professional subscription, a Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio or iFolio, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software.

Cocos Island, Costa-Rica Hammerhead sharks swim toward a ‘cleaning station’, where small fishes help them to get rid of parasites.
Dmitry Miroshnikov, Russia
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Commended, New Talent category

Brandseth Valley, Voss, Norway
Hilde Foss, Norway
Camera: Canon 7D
Winner, One Shot ’Water’ (single image category)
Norwegian amateur photographer Hilde Foss’s exhilarating image of a kayaker took the top prize, winning her a Fujifilm X10 digital camera, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and a collection of Travel Photographer of the Year books.

Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Children watch an Oxfam team at work.
Timothy Allen, UK
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II.
Winner, Best Single Image in a People Watching portfolio
The winner in this category receives a Giclee exhibition print from Genesis Digital Imaging, a print of an historic image from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) archive, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.

Spitsbergen, Norway: A fox about to scavenge the skeleton of a seal which had been caught by a polar bear.
Michal Jastrzebski, Poland
Camera: Nikon D3S
Commended, Wild Planet portfolio

Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic
Uli Kunz, Germany
Camera: Canon 5D Mk2
   Runner-up, Wild Planet portfolio

Spitsbergen, Norway Glaucous gulls fight over scraps left by a polar bear
Michal Jastrzebski, Poland
Camera: Nikon D3S
  Winner, Best Single Image in the Wild Planet portfolio category
  Each individual winner in the Best Single Image category receives a Giclee exhibition  print from Genesis Digital Imaging, a print of an historic image from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) archive, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4. 

Kiskunsagi National park, Hungary -
Grey heron
Sue Flood, UK
  Camera: Canon 1DS3
  Special Mention, Wild Planet

Namib desert, Namibia
Marsel van Oosten, Netherlands
Camera: Nikon D3S
Winner, Wild Planet portfolio
Marsel van Oosten’s stunning images of the Namibian night sky won the Dutch photographer the Wild Planet portfolio category, and a prize of a tailormade trip to Kenya with adventure travel experts Explore, plus Adobe Photoshop CS6 software.

Dust storm approaching Burning Man Festival, USA
Lung Liu, Canada
Camera: Pentax K20D
Winner, Journeys portfolio

Maciachini Centre, Via Carlo Imbonati, Milan, Italy
Tom McLaughlan, UK
Camera: CANON 5D MARK II
  Commended, Journeys portfolio

Siberut Island, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Andrew Newey, UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II
  Winner, Best Single Image in a Journeys portfolio

Masai Mara, Kenya
David Lazar, Australia
Camera: Nikon D700
   Special Mention, Journeys

Rapa das Bestas (Shearing of the Beasts) festival, Sabucedo, Galicia, Spain.
Enrique López-Tapia, Spain
Camera: Nikon D300
   Winner, Celebration portfolio category

Shoreditch, London, England
Anka Sliwa, UK
Camera: Nikon D80
  Winner, First Shot – Big City (beginners’ single image category)
  Anka Sliwa took home a Fujifilm FinePix XP150, a Photo Iconic photocourse, and         Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
Samuel Fisch, USA (age 15)
Camera: Nikon D7000
  Winner – Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2012
  For his evocative portfolio of cowboys and horses,Samuel Fisch wins a Fujifilm X-S1 camera and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
Samuel Fisch, USA (age 15), Camera: Nikon D7000
Winner – Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2012

 

Kilgoris, Trans Mara, Rift Valley Province, Kenya
Matthew Gillooley, USA (age 18)
Camera: Nikon D700
Winner, Young TPOTY 15-18

Ciocanesti, Dolj county, Romania
Felicia Simion, Romania (age 18)
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Runner-up, Young TPOTY 15-18

Amish mud sale, Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, USA
Chase Guttman, USA (age 16)
Camera: Nikon D7000
   Winner, Young Photographers Alliance Award

Amish mud sale, Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, USA
Chase Guttman, USA (age 16)
Camera: Nikon D7000
  Winner, Young Photographers Alliance Award