Competition

The annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo competition, now in its eighth year, is a chance to get up close and personal with our marine cousins so many times removed. Here are all this year's winners and runners up in a spectacular photo gallery.

To celebrate the coming new year, we've hand-picked a selection of the most spectacular photographs of 2019. This gallery gathers our favorite images of the last twelve months, from head-spinning drone shots to psychedelic microscopic photography.

The top 50 urban photos from photography social network Agora span an incredible array of subjects and styles. Covering everything from drone shots to surreal portraits, these spectacular images encapsulate the diverse and lively energy of city life.

The Ecological Society of Australia has revealed the winners of its 2019 Ecology in Action photography competition, which captures some of Australia’s most stunning creatures and habitats.

An aerial shot of Iceland’s ‘braided rivers’ has taken first place in the annual Pano Awards, a photography competition dedicated to showcasing the magnificence of panoramic photography. In its 10th year the contest received nearly 5000 entries.

In its third year, the Historic Photographer of the Year contest has become one of the most captivating photo competitions on the calendar, presenting everything from ancient stone circles in the UK to beautiful Islamic architecture in Pakistan.

In its 10th year the Urban Photo Awards presents a wonderful collection of surreal, evocative, and occasionally spectacular snaps. This year’s top prize went to a beautifully strange shot the judges suggested required an unbelievable sense of timing.

Macau, China's MGM Cotai has won information specialist Emporis' annual Skyscraper Award. The unusual US$3.4 billion building rises to a height of 495 ft (150 m) and contains a casino and hotel.

The captivating winners in this year's Siena International Photo Contest span a broad array of different subjects and aesthetics with a truly remarkable winning shot of a young boy in Liberia trying to retrieve a ball in the shadow of armed soldiers.

Nikon’s Small World competition has been running for nearly 50 years and it is one of the most compelling and reliably spectacular photo contests in the world. This year's contest featured many mesmerizing images like this small white hair spider by Javier Rupérez.

The winners of the fifty-sixth Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been revealed with the overall prize awarded to an incredible shot of a fox and marmot facing off in a life or death moment.

The just-announced winners of the 2019 EyeEm Photography Awards span everything from incredible photojournalism to surreal architectural minimalism.