2015 Sony World Photography competition

WHAT a wonderful world. Check out the latest pictures from this year’s Sony World Photography competition.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Andrew Suryono, Indonesia. Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. Image title: Orang-utan in The Rain description: I was taking pictures of some Orang-utans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orang-utan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia

1/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Andrew Suryono, Indonesia. Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. Image title: Orang-utan in The Rain description: I was taking pictures of some Orang-utans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orang-utan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Loulia Chvetsova, France. Entry, Arts and Culture Category Open Competition: Hindu devotees throw vivid colour at each other to celebrate the start of spring during Lathmar Holi Festival. Hindu brahmans from the village of Nandgaon are covered in coloured powder as they sit and sing on the floor during prayers. IMAGE LOCATION: Krishna temple, Nandgaon, Mathura district, state Uttar Pradesh, India.

2/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Loulia Chvetsova, France. Entry, Arts and Culture Category Open Competition: Hindu devotees throw vivid colour at each other to celebrate the start of spring during Lathmar Holi Festival. Hindu brahmans from the village of Nandgaon are covered in coloured powder as they sit and sing on the floor during prayers. IMAGE LOCATION: Krishna temple, Nandgaon, Mathura district, state Uttar Pradesh, India.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Cioplea Vlad, Romania. Split Second Category — Image title: Dog Fight . “This is exactly the moment when Romanian YAK Team is breaking the formation just in front of the public at Bucharest International Air Show. At that moment they look just like they are haunting each other, Bucharest International Air Show 2014”

3/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Cioplea Vlad, Romania. Split Second Category — Image title: Dog Fight . “This is exactly the moment when Romanian YAK Team is breaking the formation just in front of the public at Bucharest International Air Show. At that moment they look just like they are haunting each other, Bucharest International Air Show 2014”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Kyle Breckenridge, Canada. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: Dinner Time. “The mother and the cub are Spirit Bears or Kermode bear a subspecies of the North American Black Bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. These bears are rarer than the Panda Bear in the wild. Image location: Image was taken in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia near a small village called Klemtu. I have been told that this the 2nd time a white mother and cub has been documented. Most mother and cubs are usually a black and white combination.”

4/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Kyle Breckenridge, Canada. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: Dinner Time. “The mother and the cub are Spirit Bears or Kermode bear a subspecies of the North American Black Bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. These bears are rarer than the Panda Bear in the wild. Image location: Image was taken in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia near a small village called Klemtu. I have been told that this the 2nd time a white mother and cub has been documented. Most mother and cubs are usually a black and white combination.”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Miquel Angel Artas Illana, Spain. Travel Category — title: The trace of an ancient glacier. “Denali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travellers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America’s tallest peak, 20,320’ Mount McKinley. What used to be glaciers are now white and blue rocks that contrasts with red, yellow, orange and green tundra of this vast natural paradise. The image is taken in Autumn when the colours multiply and make the landscape truly remarkable, Denali Park, Alaska”.

5/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Miquel Angel Artas Illana, Spain. Travel Category — title: The trace of an ancient glacier. “Denali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travellers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America’s tallest peak, 20,320’ Mount McKinley. What used to be glaciers are now white and blue rocks that contrasts with red, yellow, orange and green tundra of this vast natural paradise. The image is taken in Autumn when the colours multiply and make the landscape truly remarkable, Denali Park, Alaska”.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Gareth Lowndes, New Zealand. Travel Category: Title — Desert Dawn- “About 30 minutes after sunrise a hot-air balloon is captured in the distance beginning it’s decent to land in a camel farm. The image was shot while floating over the dunes in a chase balloon. Image location — Dubai”.

6/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Gareth Lowndes, New Zealand. Travel Category: Title — Desert Dawn- “About 30 minutes after sunrise a hot-air balloon is captured in the distance beginning it’s decent to land in a camel farm. The image was shot while floating over the dunes in a chase balloon. Image location — Dubai”.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Jubair Bin Iqbal, Bangladesh, Entry, People Category, Open Competition. Title: Vigorous Touch of the Morning. “A Hindu monk is walking in a foggy winter morning of a mango garden of Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

7/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Jubair Bin Iqbal, Bangladesh, Entry, People Category, Open Competition. Title: Vigorous Touch of the Morning. “A Hindu monk is walking in a foggy winter morning of a mango garden of Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Cor. Boers, Netherlands. Title: Blaak. “Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of “living as an urban roof”: high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest, Rotterdam, Netherlands.”

8/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Cor. Boers, Netherlands. Title: Blaak. “Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of “living as an urban roof”: high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest, Rotterdam, Netherlands.”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Courtney Colantonio-Ray, USA, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition. Title: Covered Description: So much of a portrait relies on the face in a photo. But when it’s covered, we can see a whole different side of a person through their movement, their posture and even what we think the expression on their face will be when it’s finally uncovered.

9/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Courtney Colantonio-Ray, USA, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition. Title: Covered Description: So much of a portrait relies on the face in a photo. But when it’s covered, we can see a whole different side of a person through their movement, their posture and even what we think the expression on their face will be when it’s finally uncovered.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Lisa Vaz, Portugal. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: In a crowd of King Penguins. “King Penguins live in large colonies in South Georgia, a spec of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean and just below the Antarctic Convergence. They are very beautiful, gracious and yet almost comical birds and a true delight to observe. This image aims to capture and reflect how gracious and colourful Wildlife can be even at the ends of the Earth, old Harbour in South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean.”

10/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Lisa Vaz, Portugal. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: In a crowd of King Penguins. “King Penguins live in large colonies in South Georgia, a spec of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean and just below the Antarctic Convergence. They are very beautiful, gracious and yet almost comical birds and a true delight to observe. This image aims to capture and reflect how gracious and colourful Wildlife can be even at the ends of the Earth, old Harbour in South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean.”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Nick Ng, Malaysia. Split Second Category — title: The Morning Ritual “A man washes his feet before bathing in the Hooghly River, part of the Holi Ganges River in the early morning in Kolkata, India. The morning ritual of bathing oneself in the Ganges is a tradition of most Hindus, paying homage to their ancestors and their gods. The river is considered a sacred embodiment of the Hindus, Below Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India.”

11/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Nick Ng, Malaysia. Split Second Category — title: The Morning Ritual “A man washes his feet before bathing in the Hooghly River, part of the Holi Ganges River in the early morning in Kolkata, India. The morning ritual of bathing oneself in the Ganges is a tradition of most Hindus, paying homage to their ancestors and their gods. The river is considered a sacred embodiment of the Hindus, Below Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India.”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Ralf Wendrich, Germany. Architecture category — title: Step by step. “A staircase in Berlin, reduced to the essential. Berlin”.

12/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Ralf Wendrich, Germany. Architecture category — title: Step by step. “A staircase in Berlin, reduced to the essential. Berlin”.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Georg May, Germany. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: Morning Hour. “A white fallow deer standing in the morning mist an early morning in Eifel National Park, Germany. One hardly dares to move — can only look fascinated. Germany.”

13/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Georg May, Germany. Nature and Wildlife Category — title: Morning Hour. “A white fallow deer standing in the morning mist an early morning in Eifel National Park, Germany. One hardly dares to move — can only look fascinated. Germany.”

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Arief Siswandhono, Indonesia. People Category title: Timeless affection. “Fina (the girl in the picture) is the younger of my two daughters. Fina used to be scared of cat, which was the reason why we decided to adopt two kittens. We wanted Fina to learn how to live with cats, how to hold them, how to care for them and how to treat them as family members to help her overcome her fear. Now we can proudly say she did! Day by day, 7 months passed by and today Fiona and the cats are best friends, and love and care for each other. In this picture I wanted to show how gracefully they’re together in a frame with Leon, one of her babies. Banyuwangi — East Java — Indonesia”.

14/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Arief Siswandhono, Indonesia. People Category title: Timeless affection. “Fina (the girl in the picture) is the younger of my two daughters. Fina used to be scared of cat, which was the reason why we decided to adopt two kittens. We wanted Fina to learn how to live with cats, how to hold them, how to care for them and how to treat them as family members to help her overcome her fear. Now we can proudly say she did! Day by day, 7 months passed by and today Fiona and the cats are best friends, and love and care for each other. In this picture I wanted to show how gracefully they’re together in a frame with Leon, one of her babies. Banyuwangi — East Java — Indonesia”.

2015 Sony World Photography Awards / Diego Arroyo Mandez, Spain, Smile Category — title,: Hamer Man. “Hamer man collecting wood to build a defensive fence for the cattle in the Lower Omo Valley, Omo Valley, Ethiopia.”

15/192015 Sony World Photography Awards / Diego Arroyo Mandez, Spain, Smile Category — title,: Hamer Man. “Hamer man collecting wood to build a defensive fence for the cattle in the Lower Omo Valley, Omo Valley, Ethiopia.”

MUST NOT PUBLISH ON ANY PLATFORM BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH. FOR SATURDAY PAPERS. ***MUST CREDIT © Photographers Name, Country, Entry, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards*** (c) Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Orangutan in The RainImage description: I was taking pictures of some Orangutans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia

16/19MUST NOT PUBLISH ON ANY PLATFORM BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH. FOR SATURDAY PAPERS. ***MUST CREDIT © Photographers Name, Country, Entry, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards*** (c) Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Orangutan in The RainImage description: I was taking pictures of some Orangutans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia

17/19MUST NOT PUBLISH ON ANY PLATFORM BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH. FOR SATURDAY PAPERS. ***MUST CREDIT © Photographers Name, Country, Entry, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards*** (c) Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Orangutan in The RainImage description: I was taking pictures of some Orangutans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia

18/19MUST NOT PUBLISH ON ANY PLATFORM BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH. FOR SATURDAY PAPERS. ***MUST CREDIT © Photographers Name, Country, Entry, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards*** (c) Ioulia Chvetsova, France, Entry, Arts and Culture Category Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. IIMAGE TITLE: Holi. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Hindu devotees throw vivid colour at each other to celebrate the start of spring during Lathmar Holi Festival. Hindu brahmans from the village of Nandgaon are covered in colored powder as they sit and sing on the floor during prayers. IMAGE LOCATION: Krishna temple, Nandgaon, Mathura district, state Uttar Pradesh, India.

19/19MUST NOT PUBLISH ON ANY PLATFORM BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH. FOR SATURDAY PAPERS. ***MUST CREDIT © Photographers Name, Country, Entry, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards*** (c) Cioplea Vlad, Romania, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Dog FightImage Description: This is exactly the moment when Romanian YAK Team is breaking the formation just in front of the public at Bucharest International Air Show. At that moment they look just like they are haunting each other.Image location: Bucharest International Air Show 2014

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