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National Geographic’s Your Shot shares the world’s best holiday photography

THESE holiday happy snaps will make you want to be a better photographer. Take inspiration from these amateur shooters and make beautiful memories on your travels.

One of the summer festival of Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival. Girls are waiting for the festival begin.
One of the summer festival of Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival. Girls are waiting for the festival begin.

NEXT time you catch yourself posing in front of a tourist attraction while someone blandly points a camera at you, stop.

Take inspiration from these incredible photographs taken by amateur shooters from around the world.

Sure, they’ve obviously got mad skills behind the lens, but all of these pictures were submitted to Your Shot — National Geographic’s photo community — by regular folk like us.

To celebrate its 125th birthday, NG put the call out for photos that document our changing world. These are some of the site’s best.

SHO SHIBATA

One of the summer festival of Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival. Girls are waiting for the festival begin.
One of the summer festival of Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival. Girls are waiting for the festival begin.

PRONOB GHOSH

Traditional fishing at burigoalini river Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh.
Traditional fishing at burigoalini river Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh.

NOEL KERNS

National Geographic
National Geographic

ALLEN ROOKE

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National Geographic

ANDREW INABA

National Geographic
National Geographic

WAYNE PANEPINTO

National Geographic
National Geographic

JUNAID AHMED

Ijtema is the second largest Muslim gatherings in the world after Hazz.
Ijtema is the second largest Muslim gatherings in the world after Hazz.

DIMITRIS MAROULAKIS

Freediver slides peacefully over sea bed in the blue hole area of Vouliagmeni.
Freediver slides peacefully over sea bed in the blue hole area of Vouliagmeni.

EIKO JAMES

National Geographic
National Geographic

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