The Guardian's Best Drone Photography
Aerial photography platform SkyPixel received 27,000 entries to its 2016 competition. Here are the winning shots plus some of The Guardian's favorites.
Published by The Guardian
Wednesday 25 January 2017
A line in the sand ... SkyPixel’s competition was open to both professional and amateur photographers and was split into three categories: Beauty, 360, and Drones in Use. This image – of a camel caravan in the desert – won first prize in the Professional Beauty category.
Photograph: Hanbing Wang/SkyPixel
Dam near perfect ... second prize in the same category was of the Huia Dam in Auckland, New Zealand. Hong Kong-based SkyPixel was launched in 2014.
Photograph: Brendon Dixon/SkyPixel
Dead straight ... this image of a road bridge in the US won first prize in the Amateur Beauty category.
Photograph: SkyPixel
Green waves ... this shot, taken in Italy, won second prize in the Amateur Beauty category.
Photograph: Mauro Pagliai/SkyPixel
ce art ... third prize in the Amateur Beauty category. This image is of a frozen river in the US.
Photograph: SkyPixel
Catching the winning image ... fishermen close the net in Fujian province in China. This was the grand prize winner in the competition.
Photograph: Ge Zheng/Ge Zheng/SkyPixel
On the terraces … the competition – the first run by SkyPixel – attracted 27,000 entries, including this one of a rice terrace in China, which was one of our favourites.
Photograph: SkyPixel
Where did you park the car? Another of our favourites, though not a category winner, is of a huge parking lot.
Photograph: SkyPixel
City cool … people play amid the fountains.
Photograph: SkyPixel
And they were all yellow … uncredited landscape shot.
Photograph: SkyPixel
Rainbow lines … a track runs between the multicoloured lines of tulips in the Netherlands.
Photograph: SkyPixel
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