The 10 winning photos from National Geographic's 2015 Traveler Photo Contest
Beth McCarley
The contest, in its 27th year, is divided into four categories: Travel Portraits; Outdoor Scenes; Sense of Place; and Spontaneous Moments.
Images were evaluated through two rounds where both creativity and photographic quality were taken into consideration.
Grand-prize winner Anuar Patjane Floriuk, who won with a dynamic whale image, said the photo wasn't even planned. "I was taking photos near the head of the whale, and all of a sudden she began to swim toward the rest of the diving team," he told National Geographic. "The divers gave the whale and her calf space, and I just clicked at the moment when the flow and composition seemed right."
Captions below were written by the photographers.
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