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ONE OF THE world’s foremost travel and cultural magazines has published some of the latest nominees for its annual photography award.
The 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest is well underway under three categories – Nature, People and Cities.
The contest is accepting entries from 18 March to 3 May and National Geographic is publishing weekly images that will be considered for the winning prize.
As well a cash prize of $7,500 and the prestigious title, the winning photo will also be featured on the @NatGeoTravel Instagram account.
To enter the contest, entrants must join National Geographic’s online photo community, Your Shot.
Here are some more entries revealed this week across the three categories:
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with an overall density of an estimated 6,300 people per square kilometre.
500 enormous vessels being built or docked for maintenance work in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The Forest Walk is part of 10 kilometers of trails connecting four parks in Singapore.
A Honolulu neighborhood at sunset.
Petra is a 2,000-year-old city, carved in the rocks of Jordan.
Lucky for me, a young southern fur seal decided to chase a group of Gentoos—right towards our Zodiac. It even has its mouth wide open to add to the drama. Right place, right time for the shot.
It took over three years to find the photo. I love everything about this picture—a prowling leopardess, a beautiful tree with the white flowers, soft sunlight—it was just a perfect setting, like a dream.
A picture of my team on the glacier of Amphu Lapcha Pass during my Three Peaks Expedition.
The white Camargue horses are living in the wild, but are being guarded and managed by the “guardians,” French Cowboys.
This was my first ever hike to taft point in Yosemite National Park. I had seen so many beautiful pictures of this location before. After reaching the point, I saw these slackliners. It was amazing to watch these guys over the high cliffs.
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Leopard, for me – they’re so elusive. What a fabulous shot.
@Karen Lord: a wonderful shot
@Karen Lord: I should have entered my photo of a resting Sumerian Tiger – lovely in colour, startling after doctoring it to B&W.
@Canny Jem: can you view your pic elsewhere?
@Hardly Normal: Sorry, no.
I took the pic in Australia Zoo, on its Sunshine Coast north of Sydney. You can search for photos of Sumerian Tigers online. They’re bloody huge cats when fully-grown, just that little bit extraordinarily beautiful, not to be confused with similar-looking, slightly smaller, Sumatran Tigers.
The disparity between the image of Honolulu and the forest walk is both breathtaking and depressing .
@Quentin Moriarty: there are not 500 ships in that photo..and they are there for dismantling and salvaging not repair.
@SFNutters: Yes, that’s true. It was featured on one of Simon Reeve’s travel series on BBC TV. It’s a ship breakers’ yard that leads to much pollution.
@SFNutters: it’s the landscape poisoned by bad planning
@Canny Jem: the pollution is clear to see in the water. one of the first things I noticed.
Wild Camargue Horses running through the waters of the marshes are popular photo shoots for tourists in Sth France.
The annual Saintes Maries de la Mer Gypsy Festival, May 24 to 25, features the Camargue Horses ridden by ‘manadiers’, the French Gypsy cowboys who rear bulls for bullfighting and use tamed Camargue horses for herding. It is said that these horses and gypsies rescued and dragged the boat carrying the three Marys – M Magdalene, M Salome, M Jacobe and Lazarus and Maximin ashore after they were banished from the Holy Land and cast adrift in the Mediterranean sea in a small boat, no oars or sails, to ‘miraculously’ end up being saved on the French Camargue Beach.
The rescue is re-enacted on May 25th with the Camargue horses and cowboys going into the sea and pulling a boat with statues of M Salome and M Jacobe ashore.
It is a great colourful occasion for amateur and professional photographers/videographers alike. Even better photos than above of the horses and cowboys here:
https://www.camarguehorses.com/White-Horses-of-the-Camargue/i-cbGJLBD
@Canny Jem: what a fantastic link. Thanks for adding it
The Hong Kong photo is brilliantly compelling.
Not great photos, in fairness. My wife’s are way better.
@DarraghLD: Pretty sure she MADE you type that. :-)
@Arya: Actually no, but she would totally agree with my comment!
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