Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 – winning images

Enjoy these striking images from around the world featured in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition
  
  


Travel Photo of Year: Painted village, Burkina Faso
Overall winner – Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 Images of life in Tiébélé, the painted village of the Gurunsi people in southern Burkina Faso
Photograph: Louis Montrose, TPOTY Photograph: Louis Montrose, USA
Travel Photo of Year: Día de los Muertos, Oaxaca, Mexico
Overall winner – Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 Oaxaca, Mexico. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This strange and compelling holiday – both celebrating and mocking death and focused on communion with dead loved ones – seems to encapsulate the rich and conflicting traditions of Mexican culture
Photograph: Louis Montrose, TPOTY Photograph: TPOTY/Louis Montrose, USA
Travel Photo of Year: Beluga whale, Northern Russia
Winner – Best Single Image in a Spirit of Adventure portfolio White Sea, Karelia region, northern Russia. A curious and playful beluga whale swims near a scuba diver under the broken ice
Photograph: Franco Banfi, TPOTY Photograph: Action images
Travel Photo of Year: Iceberg in this Alpine lake. Switzerland
Winner – Spirit of Adventure portfolio category Lake Sassolo, Ticino, Switzerland. Scuba diver inspects an iceberg in this Alpine lake. These ice structures can roll and turn upside down in seconds
Photograph: Franco Banfi, TPOTY Photograph: Franco Banfi, Switzerland
Travel Photo of Year: Train in Tongi, Bangladesh
Winner – Best Single Image in the Exotic portfolio category: Tongi/northern border of Dhaka/Bangladesh. During the Muslim congregation, local residents arrived at and left the congregation by train. They climbed to top of the train and squeezed into every space they could find
Photograph: Yeow Kwang Yeo, TPOTY Photograph: Yeow Kwang Yeo, Singapore
Travel Photo of Year: Tribal dancer, Bafut, Cameroon
Winner – Best Single Image in a Cultures and Traditions portfolio: Tribal dancer, Bafut, Cameroon
Photograph: Philip Lee Harvey, TPOTY Photograph: Philip Lee Harvey, UK
Travel Photo of Year: Yamal, Russia
Winner – Cultures and Traditions portfolio In Yamal, Russia, some 14,000 nomadic people live together with their deer herds
Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, TPOTY Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, Russia
Travel Photo of Year: Yamal, Russia - antlers
Winner – Cultures and Traditions portfolio A herdsman in Yamal, Russia
Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, TPOTY Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, Russia
Travel Photo of Year: Tibetan wild donkeys
Highly Commended – Natural Elements portfolio A group of kiang (Tibetan wild donkeys) running free through the Himalayan plains around Paryang, west Tibet
Photograph: Matjaz Krivic, TPOTY Photograph: Matjaz Krivic, Slovenia
Travel Photo of Year: Bundi, Rajasthan, India
Commended – Exotic portfolio Street market in Bundi, Rajasthan, India
Photograph: Simon Morris, TPOTY Photograph: Simon Morris, UK
Travel Photo of Year: London street
Winner – Exotic portfolio Man in a white coat walking past a woman on a London street
Photograph: Malgorzata Pioro, TPOTY Photograph: Malgorzata Pioro, Poland
Travel Photo of Year: Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
Winner – One Shot Wild Moments (single image category) Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
Photograph: Stuart Dunn, TPOTY Photograph: Stuart Dunn, UK
Travel Photo of Year: Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica
Runner-up – Young TPOTY 15-18 ‘Green’ Manuel Antonio national park, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica. A green tree snake emerging from the safety of the trees
Photograph: Tom Spence, TPOTY Photograph: Tom Spence, UK, age 18
Travel Photo of Year: Southern Ireland
Winner – Young TPOTY 14 and Under 'Green' Mountain pass overlooking winding road in Ireland
Photograph: Seamus Crowley, TPOTY Photograph: Action images
 

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