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Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti, Ghana The Ashanti people fish from the traditional wooden padua.

Biran Zhao, China. Winner, Shaped by Light. Every morning and regardless of the season, these nuns walk around the mountain in Baiyu County, Ganzi, Sichuan Province, China

Alison Cahill, UK, Winner, New Talent, Eye to Eye. Fitri working on a client at Son & Dad Barbers in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, while his wife waits patiently.

Craig Easton, UK Winner, Land, Sea, Sky portfolio West Kirby, Wirral, UK A lone Buddhist monk walks around the boundary wall of the West Kirby Marine Lake.

Michele Palazzo, Italy. Winner, Cities: Architecture and Spaces. While walking through the Jonas snowstorm that swept across the east coast, I captured this shot of New Yorks famous Flatiron building against a backdrop of swirling snow

Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016. This aerial image offers a rare glimpse inside of Erta Ale volcano which means Smoking Mountain in the local Afar language in Danakil, Ethiopia

Ankit Kumar, India. Winner, Young Travel Photographer of the Year (14 and under). Mount Lengai towers next to Lake Natron, Tanzania, where flamingos flock to feed

Llus Salvad, Spain Winner, Best Single Image in a Journeys & Adventures portfolio San Bartolom de Pinares, Spain Each January 16, the festival of Saint Anton takes place in San Bartolom de Pinares.

Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Salt Desert, Danakil Depression, Afar, Ethiopia This unique aerial photo shows the salt miners guiding a dromedary and donkey caravan through this desert's unique salt patterns.

Jeremy Woodhouse, UK Winner Best Single Image in a Mankind Portfolio Coltesti, Romania This elderly woman was cutting grass from a small plot to feed her livestock.

Ruiyuan Chen, China Winner, Mankind portfolio Daliang Mountains, Sichaun province, China Portraits of the ethnic Yi people, who live in great poverty.

Craig Easton, UK. Winner, Land, Sea, Sky portfolio. Looking east on a blissfully calm winters day towards walkers along the boundary wall of the West Kirby Marine Lake on the Wirral, UK

Marina Spironetti, Italy Winner, Smart Shot Paris, France Two women waiting for the 14th July parade on the Champs Elyses.

Darpan Basak, India (age 14) Winner, Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Chadipur, India From land to sea joy to eternity.

Courtney Moore, USA (age 18) Winner, Young TPOTY 15-18 Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, USA On a particularly windy day, this fox was sitting only a few yards away from the ocean as sand pelted against his fur

Luke Massey, UK Winner, Wildlife & Nature Sierra de Andjar National Park, Andalucia, Spain In 2001 there were less than 100 Iberian lynx left in the wild. Fifteen years later there are now more than 400, but it is still, unfortunately, the rarest cat in the world.

Joel Santos, Portugal Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti, Ghana The Ashanti people fish from the traditional wooden padua.

Ankit Kumar, India. Winner, Young Travel Photographer of the Year (14 and under). Mount Lengai towers next to Lake Natron, Tanzania, where flamingos flock to feed

Beniamino Pisati, Italy Winner, Journeys & Adventures portfolio Bayankhongor, Mongolia Horses are present in all aspects of life in Mongolia. A popular saying is: A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without wings.

Alison Cahill, UK Winner, New Talent, Eye to Eye Son & Dad Barbers, George Town, Penang, Malaysia Portrait of Elyas the head barber and owner of Son & Dad.

Sue OConnell, UK. Special Mention, Mankind. These saddhus may have travelled great distances to attend the mighty Kumbh Mela, a mass Hindu pilgrimage, in Haridwar, northern India

Marsel van Oosten, Netherlands. Special Mention, Mankind. A farm worker rows out to inspect the nets of a large crab farm in the sea at Xiapu, Fujian, China

Magdalna Strakov, Czech Republic Special Mention, Wildlife & Nature Prague Zoo, Prague, Czech Republic This flamingo was photographed early in the morning in January, when few people visit.

Sergey Pesterev, Russia. Special Mention, Land, Sea, Sky portfolio

Timothy Allen, UK. Runner-up, Journeys and Adventures portfolio. Caravans at sunset on a pilgrimage to El Rocio in Andaluca, Spain

Timothy Allen, UK Runner-up, Journeys & Adventures portfolio Andalucia, Spain Pilgrimage to El Roco: celebrating at the end of the four-day journey.

Jeremy Woodhouse, UK. Highly Commended, Shaped by Light. This baker in Vinales, Cuba, was icing a cake as the setting sun shone through the door, casting his shadow onto the wall

Craig Easton, UK. Special Mention, Mankind. Madame Cancy selling popcorn at the small Cancy Family Touring Circus in Monpazier, Dordogne, France.

Zhiwen Huang, China. Special Mention, Cities: Architecture and Spaces. A rising red moon watching over the bridge across the bay in Shenzhen city, China

Martin Siering, Germany Special Mention, Land, Sea, Sky Komba Island, Indonesia The eruptions of Batu Tara volcano are extremely loud, big and powerful, so that the whole island quakes.

Dominic Byrne, Ireland Highly Commended, Cities: Architecture & Spaces Astana, Kazakhstan An image of an interesting art installation composed in a way to give a War of the Worlds feel to a nearby modern tower

Raimondo Norberto Giamberduca, Italy Highly Commended, New Talent, Eye to Eye Jokkmokk, Sweden Reindeer race.

Zijie Gong, China (age 16) Runner-up, Young TPOTY 15-18 Between Sichuan and Tibet, China A life of freedom for young children.

Kyle Adler, USA Joint Runner-up, Wildlife & Nature This alligator lay out in the middle of the waterway seeking what little sunshine was offered on a cloudy December day as we sailed by

(Photo: www.tpoty.com/Marco Urso)

Panos Laskarakis, Greece Runner-up, Mankind portfolio Volakas, Falakro Mountain, Greece Mysterious and ancient celebrations in the forests on the mountain.

Rudi Sebastian, Germany Joint Runner-up Wildlife & Nature Berlin, Germany In a small pond at the rural border of Berlin, male moor frogs in their bright blue mating colour try to mate with a common toad, which almost drowned. It took about 30 minutes before she managed to free herself and reach dry ground.

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