Drone photography

Photography social network Agora's latest contest tasked its community with taking portraits of small things, and the results run the gamut from a close up of a tiny damselfly to shots of humans eclipsed by the scale and majesty of Mother Nature.

An evocative shot of the century-old Brighton Palace Pier has won this year’s Historic Photographer of the Year Awards. In its fourth year, this contest offers a compelling journey through some of the most picturesque historic sites around the world.

In its sixth year the Siena International Photo Awards continues to impress with a captivating array of celebrated shots, from astonishing images of fire and lightning highlighting the power of nature, to some sublime perspectives on life in lockdown.

Focusing solely on the art of panoramic photography, the annual Pano Awards is easily the most consistently spectacular photo contest in the world. This year’s stunning array of highlights offers a deeply creative assortment of images.

In its inaugural year, the Aerial Photography Awards has delivered an exciting assortment of shots celebrating all kinds of high-flying imagery, from surreal landscapes snapped from helicopters to sublime drone-captured cityscapes.

This year’s Drone Photo Awards deliver an outstanding assortment of aerial images, from the overall winning shot, catching a school of salmon forming the shape of a heart, to a special category focusing on the ways COVID-19 has transformed our cities.

In its second year, the Minimalist Photography Awards delivers another spread of images affirming the ethos, “less is more.” With a focus on abstract patterns and colorful contrasts, this photo contest celebrates images pared back to the bare essentials.

In one of global photography social network Agora’s strongest contests to date, over 9,000 entries celebrating breathtaking aerial perspectives were whittled down to a top 50, from which a single winner was chosen by popular vote.

This year’s International Photography Awards One-Shot contest focused on how a single image can convey the concept of movement. The array of celebrated shots illustrate the sheer spectacle of humans, animals and machines in various states of motion.

After receiving a record-breaking 350,000 submissions, the Sony World Photography Awards has revealed the best single images from its 2020 competition. This year’s winning images feature a spectacular array of the world’s most impressive photographs.

From extraordinary macro images to abstract aerial drone shots, water photography can take many forms, much like water itself. In photography social network Agora’s latest contest, H2O is celebrated in a spectacular collection of images.

Photographer Florian Ledoux has won the inaugural Nature TTL Photographer of the Year award for a drone shot featuring crabeater seals resting on a floating chunk of ice. Ledoux’s impeccably composed shot beat 7,000 entries from over 100 countries.