National Geographic Magazine just announced the winners of this year's photo contest. Gathered below are the winning images from the People, Nature, and Places categories, as well as honorable mentions.
National Geographic Magazine just announce the winners of this year’s photo contest. The Grand Prize Winner, Brian Yen, will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in its annual photography seminar. Gathered below are the winning images from the People, Nature, and Places categories, as well as honorable mentions, with captions written by the individual photographers. Be sure to see earlier selections of the entries, Part I, and Part II, earlier on In Focus. [19 photos]
National Geographic has long been associated with inspiring photography that tells us something about the world we live in. The grand prize-winning image of this year’s photo contest does just that. It captures a small moment in time that speaks to a much
Says the winning photographer, Brian Yen, “With the advent of mobile communication … a profound change in our civilization” has taken place, and he feels “a bit guilty, more and more, that I’m just like that lady in the middle of the train [who is] lost in her own world.”
