Summary<\/p>\n
The National Geographic Traveller UK Photography Competition has announced this year’s winners across eight categories.
\n Grand Prize winner Edward Hasler captured an aerial view of the Namib desert showing remnants of rain.
\n The winning photographs range from a sleeping polar bear to Seoul street food vendors.<\/p>\n
\n AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/p>\n
\n Pictures of a napping polar bear<\/a>, the remnants of a rain shower in the Namib desert and a bustling dumpling stall in Seoul<\/a> are among this year\u2019s winners of the National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition<\/a>, capturing both extraordinary moments and daily life around the world.\n <\/p>\n \n Returning for its 15th year, the competition was divided into eight categories \u2013 Urban, People, Landscape, Wildlife, Food, Portfolio, Aerial and Rising Star.\n <\/p>\n \n Edward Hasler\u2019s aerial photograph of the Namib desert was selected as the Grand Prize winner, earning him an 11-day photography expedition to British Columbia, Canada.\n <\/p>\n \n Ben Rowe, senior picture editor for National Geographic Traveller (UK) and one of the judges, said in a press release on Thursday: \u201cThe winning images make up a stunning group of photographs, offering unique perspectives on life around the world, from abstract landscapes and street food to busy city life and quiet, intimate moments. It\u2019s a collection that inspires a desire to travel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Whilst some of the winners photographed high alpine peaks and arid deserts, others focused on scenes of daily life.\n <\/p>\n \n Zaeem Jafri won the Food category with his image of steaming dumplings and hungry customers at a food stall in Seoul. While Fred Forse\u2019s highly commended image captured passengers aboard a cruise ship traveling from Southampton, UK, to Skjolden, Norway.\n <\/p>\n \n Other\ufeff entries gave a new perspective on often photographed subjects.\n <\/p>\n \n Using a drone and a telephoto lens, Felix Belloin\u2019s winning image in the Wildlife category captured a polar bear tucked into a crack in the ice, asleep.\n <\/p>\n \n Meanwhile, Lucas James Leal Martin\u2019s highly commended image shows a nocturnal owl in Scotland during the day.\n <\/p>\n \n The winning images will be shown at an exhibition at London\u2019s King\u2019s Cross station between May 28 and July 12.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary The National Geographic Traveller UK Photography Competition has announced this year’s winners across eight categories. Grand Prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-451403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}