Some Stunning photos from the National Sony World Photography Awards 2020

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Roberto Corinaldesi (Italy)

• Image Name: Sur La Mer
• Photographer Name: Roberto Corinaldesi
• Year: 2020

Another classic aerial view, this time showing a mass of swimmers making their way through the incoming waves. 

"Swimmers seen from above take on the appearance of human ants."

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Hong Chen (Hong Kong)

• Image Name: Flamingo fly over Lake Magadi
• Photographer Name: Hong Chen
• Year: 2020

Hong Chen's award-winning photo is unusual as it was not only not shot in the home country, but also was taken from onboard a helicopter.

"The water forms many unique colors and shapes, when Flamingo fly over the Lake Magadi, Kenya, I shot it from a helicopter."

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Greg Lecoeur (France)

• Image Name: Frozen mobil home
• Photographer Name: Greg Lecoeur
• Year: 2020

From the land to the ocean, it seems that anything goes when it comes to these photos and just how incredible they are too. 

"During an expedition on a small sailboat, we explore the Antarctica Peninsula by diving below the surface. Although the conditions are extreme with a temperature of minus 1°C, we have documented an extraordinary marine life in its fragile ecosystem such as on this image: crab-eater seals living on the pack-ice but which are affected by global warming with the melting of the ice."

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Kristiina Tammik (Estonia)

• Image Name: The look
• Photographer Name: Kristiina Tammik
• Year: 2020

Kristiina Tammik from Estonia snapped this fantastic image of a person and their furry friend hunting for ducks. We enjoy the striking colours of the hound and the look in his eyes as he returns with the prize. 

"Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever retrieving a duck to the hunter."

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Atanas Chulev (Bulgaria)

• Image Name: Sunset
• Photographer Name: Atanas Chulev
• Year: 2020

Atanas Chulev is the national award winner from Bulgaria thanks to this photo of a simple sunset. 

"The photo was taken in one of the excavated tunnels and galleries during the First World War. Most of them can be seen on Via Ferrata De Luca-Innerkofler, but it is advisable to go with the Via Ferrata kit."

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Bun Chan (Cambodia)

• Image Name: Calmness
• Photographer Name: Bun Chan
• Year: 2020

A mysterious scene, calm waters and a lone individual. Another brilliant and mysterious photo that won a national award for Cambodia. 

"Calmness is a simple word, but broad term and people try to find it based on external stories to fill in inner peace. The lake is clear because of the calm at the bottom of the lake Even though the wind is blowing, it is clear when the wind stops blowing but the lake will be murky Even without the wind if the bottom of the lake is rough.
It is also with the human mind that peace is from within and when our mind is at rest, everything around us calms itself."

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Wolfgang Wiesen (Germany)

• Image Name: funfair
• Photographer Name: Wolfgang Wiesen
• Year: 2020

This award-winning photograph looks like the photographer was given the remit of trying to capture happiness in a single image. This was the result. 

"Multi-exposure of people on a chairoplane."

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Tooru Iijima (Japan)

• Photographer Name: Tooru Iijima
• Year: 2020

The Japanese winner is likely one of the simplest views on our list. An aerial view of a solitary person walking through the snow was enough to win the national award for Tooru Iijima.

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Arvids Baranovs (Latvia)

• Image Name: Autumn serpentine
• Photographer Name: Arvids Baranovs
• Year: 2020

This award-winning photograph from Latvia looks like it would be a perfect fit in our gallery of the best drone photos ever taken. Another image of man's impact on the world with a winding road striking through a forest.  

"Mountain serpentine in the mountains Romania during golden autumn."

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Tien Sang Kok (Malaysia)

• Image Name: Descend From Above
• Photographer Name: Tien Sang Kok
• Year: 2020

Tien Sang Kok won for Malaysia with this photo that almost conjures up the sound of the thundering hooves just from looking at it. 

"Hundred of horses are galloping when the sun is about to shine its last ray. It is traditionally said that a Mongol without a horse is like a bird without a wing, this is how strong the bond between human being and animal that we should appreciate."

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Kushal Shahi (Nepal)

• Image Name: Street to the Mountain
• Photographer Name: Kushal Shahi
• Year: 2020

Another breath-taking view of nature captured from the mountains of Nepal. 

"Mardi Himal, Kaski: A Parade of mountaineers heading towards the destination in search of destiny by following the natural street into the Himalaya. Fighting with the cold and dry blows, we march towards the summit. The attachment with these majestic Himalayas in the reason that has kept us going and the reward is something different; Peace and Serenity."

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Sergey Savenko (Russian Federation)

• Image Name: Mount Elbrus
• Photographer Name: Sergey Savenko
• Year: 2020

One of the great things about these national award winners is the extreme differences between them. One winner taken in the depths of the desert, one in the frozen wilderness. 

"Bermamyt Plateau. The best place with a view of Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain peak in Russia and Europe, included in the list of the highest peaks of the world "Seven Peaks"."

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F. Dilek Uyar (Turkey)

• Image Name: Light Shadow and the Guards
• Photographer Name: F. Dilek Uyar
• Year: 2020

A Turkish masterpiece shows a man carrying out the humblest of trades, herding sheep through the hills. 

"From the hard and dusty journey of sheep herd in Bitlis Turkey. I went to Bitlis to take photos in that city and take this in that period. Sheep has a great impartance in Bitlis. It was really hard to take these photos. Sheep has a great impartance in Bitlis. This photo is like a pastoral symphony."

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Abbas Alkhamis (Saudi Arabia)

• Image Name: Horse Motion
• Photographer Name: Abbas Alkhamis
• Year: 2020

Saudi Arabia's national winner Abbas Alkhamis captured this magnificent image of a fantastic steed in action. Man and beast in harmony. 

"A horse breeder plays a horse in one of the stables of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates."

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Ales Krivec (Slovenia)

• Image Name: Ring of frost
• Photographer Name: Ales Krivec
• Year: 2020

Another national winner showing off the wonder of our world with a natural phenomenon caught on camera in the wild. 

"Fog and snow particles created an interesting glow around the tree. Halo is the name for a family of optical phenomena produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots in the sky."