Sony just released the 2018 edition of the World Photo Awards. Professional and amateur photographers from around the world submitted their work and a team of judges went to to select the best shots.
Photos were split into various categories, ranging from professional to youth and student focus. We’ve selected our favorites and posted them below. Check them out:
This is a sequence photo of the Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017, taken at Painted Hills, Oregon. The solar elements in this sequence were taken at 5 miniutes intervel except the diamond rings which were about one minute before and after the max totality. The positions of those elements roughly represents the actual position at on the sky. I carefully planned the camera location so that the totality is just above the highest hill. Since this is a wide angle shot, the actual sun size is way too small so I increased the size by roughly two to three times that you can at least see the eclipse shape. The bright line on the sky is an airplane which flew by the sky right after the totality.
Bismillah, who said he was around 12-years-old, stands for a portrait with his homemade skis in Aub Bala’s village mosque. Aub Bala, ‘High Water’, is the farthest village up the Fuladi Valley in central Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Province, so named because it is the closest to the source of the valley’s water, which comes off the mountains in snow-melt and rain, deeper in the valley, beyond where the single road reaches. Skiing first came to Aub Bala in 2009, when two staff members of the Agha Khan Foundation visited the village while mapping Bamiyan’s snowfields for the purpose of producing a guide book for skiers. Since then, boys in the village have built their own based on what they remember of the visitors’ equipment.
Ghodrathullah, who said he was around 13-years-old, stands for a portrait with his homemade skis in Aub Bala’s village mosque. Aub Bala, ‘High Water’, is the farthest village up the Fuladi Valley in central Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Province, so named because it is the closest to the source of the valley’s water, which comes off the mountains in snow-melt and rain, deeper in the valley, beyond where the single road reaches. Skiing first came to Aub Bala in 2009, when two staff members of the Agha Khan Foundation visited the village while mapping Bamiyan’s snowfields for the purpose of producing a guide book for skiers. Since then, boys in the village have built their own based on what they remember of the visitors’ equipment.
You can find these pics and quite a few more on World Photo.
You can find these pics and quite a few more on World Photo.