One more year we have here the results of the contest Drone Photo Awards, organized by the Italian association Art Photo Travel and which has been awarding photographs (and videos) taken with drones for three years. Its results give us suggestive images made with these devices that, with the permission of the Skypixel contest, pass for being the best aerial photos last year.
And if those of last year attracted attention, those of this one are no less striking and came to the contest from photographers from 102 countries different. Thousands of photos (they do not give the specific data) among which the winners were chosen in eight categories (this year the special category Life Under COVID-19) and the overall winner, the “Drone Photographer of the Year”.
This time that honor went to the Norwegian Terje Kolaas for a photograph titled ‘Pink-Footed Geese Meeting the Winter‘which shows a flock of thousands of pink-legged geese flying towards Svalbard, in the Arctic, with the landscape still covered in snow; a early migration of birds that, most likely, is directly related to the climate change.
Regarding the Spanish participation, it is necessary to highlight the second place of Igor Altuna in category Wildlife (last year it was already among the recommended) and the Higly commended for two photos of Ignacio Medem in category Abstract.
His images, like those of all those chosen, will be part of the Siena Awards Festival and the exhibition ‘Above Us Only Sky‘, both scheduled to take place in Siena del October 23 to November 5 of this year.
As always we leave you the main winning photos, and we recommend a visit to the contest website to see many more photographs:
Winners Drone Photo Awards 2021:
Overall winner: Terje Kolaas for ‘Pink-Footed Geese Meeting the Winter’:
Urban Category
Winner: Sergei Poletaev for ‘Metaphorical Statement About City and Winter’:
Runner Up: George Steinmetz for ‘The Kingdom Center’:
Highly Commended: Gilad Topaz for ‘Space Invaders’:
Category Wildlife
Winner: Qasim Al Farsi for ‘Back to Adventure’:
Runner Up: Igor Altuna for ‘Fast Food’:
Highly Commended: Talib Almarri by ‘Hippopotamus group from above’:
Sport Category
Winner: Phil De Glanville for ‘Gold at the End of the Rainbow’:
Runner Up: Pierluigi Orler for ‘Follow Me’:
Highly Commended: John Cowpland for ‘Wrong Way Buddy!’:
Category People
Winner: Trung Pham Huy for ‘Fishing in Mangrove Forest’:
Runner Up: Alexandr Vlassyuk for ‘Beach Season’:
Highly Commended: Phu Khanh Bui for ‘Pray for Souls’:
Nature Category
Winner: Martin Sanchez for ‘Extragalactic’:
Runner Up: Janessa Anderson for ‘The Great Divide’:
Highly Commended: Phil De Glanville for ‘Pure Power’:
Abstract Category
Winner: Gheorghe Popa for ‘Poisoned River’:
Runner Up: Paolo Crocetta for ‘Kaleidoscope’:
Highly Commended: Ran Tian for ‘Duoyishu Terraces’:
Category Wedding
Winner: Matteo Originale for ‘Verso l’Infinito Insieme a Te’:
Runner Up: Wujiang Zhu for ‘Boundless sea of love’:
Video category
Winner: Nestoras Kechagias for ‘Ice Ballet’:
More information and photos | Drone Awards
Cover photo | ‘Dream or Real’ by F. Dilek Uyar. Commended in the Abstract category of the Drone Photo Awards 2021