Unveiled: The breathtaking winners of the 2025 National Geographic Traveler Photography Competition
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From a ‘casual encounter’ between an eagle and a fox to an ‘untouched’ ice sheet, these incredible images show the best of the global travel photoor in 2025.
National Geographic Traveler has announced the winners of this year’s photography competition, in which both amateur and professional photographers are submitted incredible travel shots.
Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveler (VK)Said: ‘Our competition goes into force, with this year is easy to one of the strongest so far. Photography of World Class remains the core of the National Geographic brand and the winners are fortunately in that category.
‘Capture everything, from the dramatic landscapes of Iceland and Italy to incredible natural shots in Spain And CanadaThe 18 finalists – who have made the reduction of thousands of entries – have really increased the level of travel photography with their ingenuity and skill. ‘
This year’s winner, Justin Cliffe is for his incredible portrait of a woman and her great -granddaughter who do embroidery in Vietnam together.
The jury panel says: ‘This is such an intimate moment between generations that records so much beauty and humanity.
“The colors, light and textures work very well.”
Read on to see a selection of this year’s breathtaking entries and scroll down to the bottom to see Justin’s great winning shot …
On this striking photo made by Hari Kumar Prasannakumar in Spain, an endangered female lynx is broken while drinking a pond. The photographer says: ‘A curious honeybee buzzes near her ear and adds a playful turn to the serene moment’
Solomon Islanders are photographed while selling their ‘fresh fruit and vegetables’ of dugout -canos in this enchanting image taken by Mark Carwardine
Photographer Jo Kearney took this cheerful photo on the Chilam Joshi Spring Festival in Pakistan. She explains that the festival is both ‘spiritual’ and ‘social’ where ‘people pray for crops and animals’ but also ‘search for potential marriage partners’
Jordan Banks took this colorful photo on a rainy day in Nantes, France. The photographer broke the shot from under an umbrella, but says it was ‘definitely worth getting a little wet’
Left: Photographer Bianca Goldman took this powerful picture of a member of the Suli Muli -Stame in Papua -New -Guinea. She says she was driven to take the photo as “part of a personal journey to capture the textures, expressions and the silence of the time in this community.” Right: Joshua Mallett took this striking photo on a journey that brought him from Nepal to France and wins the portfolio category. He says that his photography was designed to capture moments where time seems to be pausing ‘
The winner of the ‘Landscape’ category, Pawel Zygmunt took this impressive aerial photo in the Hveravellir Geothermal Area in Iceland. The photographer explains: ‘The camera floats over a geothermal swimming pool that mimics the shape of the eye of a dragon’
In Italy is this incredible photo of Ra Gusela, one of the ‘favorite peaks’ by photographer Christopher West in the Dolomites. To make the shot, Christopher had to walk to the point of view on a winter night of -14 degrees in the cold
This enchanting shot was made by Dylan McBurney in China as part of a ten image portfolio with the experience of the photographer with traveling in Changsha and Zhangjiajie
![Winner of the City Life category, Scott Antcliffe took this fascinating photo in Singapore. He explains: 'I want to demonstrate the combination of old and new [in Singapore]. I wanted to capture his more modest areas of natural beauty '](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/05/28/13/98820023-14757455-image-a-10_1748437019966.jpg)
Winner of the City Life category, Scott Antcliffe took this fascinating photo in Singapore. He explains: ‘I want to demonstrate the combination of old and new [in Singapore]. I wanted to capture his more modest areas of natural beauty ‘
In Alberta, Canada, this cute image is shown during the flight of snow bunting birds. Photographer Jo Noon reveals that ‘more than three hundred bunting came together on this patch of snowy hill’
Victoria Andrews, the winner of the Wildlife category, took this incredible photo ‘during one of the hottest summers in Toledo, Spain’. She looked at the Eagle and Fox of the Bonelli while the two animals came ‘almost nose to nose’ in an ‘casual encounter’
Dylan McBurney recorded this spooky image while traveling in China. The entire portfolio of 10 images has been designed to ‘bid China everything that China has to offer’ encapsulates
Left: Andrew Nelson took this photo in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo. He explains: “The abstraction is intended and there is a lot of subject in the scene, which reflects the chaos, beauty and complexity of Tokyo city life.” Right: Joshua Mallett, winner of the portfolio category, broke this photo as part of his mission to ‘form a visual story of places formed by nature and history, where past and present meet in striking harmony’
This incredible photo taken by Pabir Kumar Mitra in Lhasa is the winner of the ‘Food’ category. It was taken in a ‘family test restaurant’ that served ‘authentic Tibetan food’, including locally produced ‘Yak meat, noodles and cheese’
Taken in Kyrgyzstan by Lauren Winslow Llewellyn, this image is entitled ‘Feeling Small’ and shows an icy lake. Lauren reveals: ‘It was a wild place, untouched by tourism, with only we and our driver who admire the view’
James Maloney took this incredible photo in the Shimbashi district of Tokyo. He says: “The bustling streets live with the sizzle of fresh ingredients, the inviting aromas that blow through the sky and the lively colors of beautifully plated dishes”
Winner of the National Geographic Traveler Photography Competition, Justin Cliffe took this powerful photo in the province of Lao Cai in Vietnam. He says: “A woman from the Red Dao-Letness does some embroidery at the door of her property, with her great-grandjaughter past her”
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