The National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition, sponsored by Nikon, was seeking to highlight the best in travel photography. This prestigious competition invited photographers of all levels to submit their travel images in up to six categories. This year’s competition opened for entries in March 2021 and there were thousands of entries across all categories.
The categories were Wildlife, Urban, Food And Travel, People, Landscape and Portfolio. Apart from these categories, a Grand Prize is also given.
Here are the winners of the competition:
The Wildlife Category
The winner: Mitchell Lewis
A lone rabbit in Richmond Park, London
All through spring I’d been visiting Richmond Park at sunset trying to capture an image in golden light. Focusing on a colony of rabbits, I was finally able to capture this guy enjoying the last few minutes of light.
The Urban Category
The winner: Clara Dip Wan Cheung
The Veles e Vents building in Valencia, Spain
On a trip to Valencia, we stopped at this amazing building. I captured my friend Sarah walking up the first staircase of the horizontal platforms, gazing at the uninterrupted views extending out towards the Mediterranean Sea.
The Food And Travel Category
The winner: Nic Crilly-Hargrave
Stallholders ready the catch for market in Veracruz, Mexico
I took this image early one morning in a warehouse behind Veracruz market — it’s where meat is prepared and deliveries are unloaded, so it’s a hectic place to shoot. It’s a race against time to get everything ready before shoppers arrive, so everyone’s pretty focused — but I spotted this moment of companionship between two men as they gutted fish. When they saw I’d taken their picture, one pointed to the other, uttering one word: ‘brother’.
The People Category
The winner: Claire Waring
Ice fishing on the frozen sea in Hokkaido, Japan
I drove down the Notsuke Peninsula, a sand bar protruding into the Nemuro Strait on the east coast of Hokkaido. My primary aim was to photograph the elegant, red-crowned cranes, huge Steller’s sea eagles and other wildlife. The sea was frozen and several ice fishermen were out on the bay, fishing for wakasagi (smelt). Each had made a hole with an auger and dropped down a line with coloured lures and bait attached. Several fishermen had erected small tents for protection but this man was braving the weather. With his gear on a small sled, he just sat — and waited — looking very cold. I lay down on the ice to get the shot of an activity I’d never seen before.
The Landscape Category
The winner: Ozgun Ozdemir
Marble Hill Beach, Donegal, Ireland
I’d been trying for this shot for months but couldn’t get a calm early morning. On this November day, my friends and I agreed to meet at the beach at sunrise, but after checking the forecast I realised that would mean missing the ideal conditions, so I arrived an hour early to set up.
The Portfolio Category and The Grand Prize Winner
The Grand Prize winner: Andro Loria
Iceland
The images were all taken in Iceland from a small airplane on my trips during summer and autumn last year. Iceland is unique, as it has a great variety of landscape types within a relatively short range of distance. You can see deserts, volcanoes, glaciers, mountains, braided rivers and lakes, sea coast and highlands all in one flight. It’s like a continent in miniature. And what an amazing ‘continent’ it is.
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