15 Photographs That Will Open Your Eyes

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To The Wonders Of The World.

For the past several months, photographers around the world have been submitting works to the annual Sony World Photography Awards, a competition that attracts amateur and professional image makers from nearly every corner of the globe vying for online prestige.

Photographers compete across several contests -- professional, open, and youth, entering images in categories like travel, arts and culture, nature and wildlife, architecture, people and "split second." So far, the 2015 edition has seen aerial impossibilities from Romania, perfectly framed animals in Indonesia, manmade abstracts in the Netherlands and frozen landscapes in Russia.

The photos are a wild nod to the diversity of life on planet Earth, celebrating moments that often span just the time it takes to close a shutter.

These 15 showcased photographs are all in the open competition category.

Dainan Zhou, China


Manny Fajutag, Philippines


Senthilkumar Kandhakrishnan, India


Simon Morris, UK


André Farinha, Portugal


Zikri Teo, Australia


Neil Herbert, UK


Christopher Roche, Ireland


Vicente Moraga Costoso, Spain


Ho Doan Viet Thong, Vietnam


Jaco Marx, South Africa


Scott Pattenden, UK


James Moh Heng Hai, Malaysia


Jiří Míchal, Czech Republic


Julian Ghahreman-Rad, Australia

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Kyle Breckenridge, Canada, Nature and Wildlife Category
Image title: Dinner Time

Image description: The mother and the cub are Spirit Bears or Kermode bear a subspecies of the North American Black Bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Colombia, Canada. These bears are rarer than the Panda Bear in the wild.

Image location: Image was taken in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia near a small village called Klemtu. I have been told that this the 2nd time a white mother and cub has been documented. Most mother and cubs are usually a black and white combination.

Cioplea Vlad, Romania, Split Second Category
Image title: Dog Fight


Ioulia Chvetsova, France, Arts and Culture Category
Image title: Holi


Gareth Lowndes, New Zealand, Travel Category
Image title: Desert Dawn


Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Nature and Wildlife Category
Image title: Orangutan in The Rain


Cor Boers, Netherlands, Architecture Category
Image title: Blaak


Arief Siswandhono, Indonesia, People Category
Image title: Timeless affection


Miquel Ángel Artús Illana, Spain, Travel Category
Image title: The trace of an ancient glacier


Courtney Colantonio-Ray, USA, Split Second Category
Image title: Covered


Georg May, Germany, Nature and Wildlife Category
Image title: Morning Hour


Ralf Wendrich, Germany, Architecture Category
Image title: 'Step by step'


Jubair Bin Iqbal, Bangladesh, People Category
Image title: Vigorous Touch of the Morning


Nick Ng, Malaysia, Split Second Category
Image title: The Morning Ritual


Lisa Vaz, Portugal, Nature and Wildlife Category
Image title: In a crowd of King Penguins


Diego Arroyo Méndez, Spain, Smile Category
Image title: Hamer Man

[steven lloyd]

awesome - thanks :o)

[OREZ]

Love it! Thanks for posting. :)