Fabulous photos from travels, winning the competition Travel Photographer of the Year 2016

• Fabulous photos from travels, winning the competition Travel Photographer of the Year 2016

In the UK, we announced the results of the international competition of travel-photography Travel Photographer of the Year 2016. Among the best works were pictures of a snow-covered street in New York City and water farms in China, as well as other stunning photos. They will be exhibited in the English city of Kingston upon Hull in celebration of Culture Festival from May 18 to June 30, 2017.

Competition Travel Photographer of the Year held since 2003. It brings together both professional photographers and amateurs from around the world.

Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner of Travel Photographer of the Year 2016. A fisherman on Lake Bosumtvi, Ashanti, Ghana. Tradition requires that the fish were caught with only wooden planks called Padua, by the same method which was used ancestors.

Joel Santos, Portugal. Winner Travel Photographer of the Year 2016. On this photograph, taken from the air is represented on a rare species of volcano crater Erta Ale that the local dialect Afar means "fuming Mountain." Danakil, Ethiopia.

Ankit Kumar, India. The winner of the "Young Travel Photographer of the Year" (14 years and under). Next to Lake Natron in Tanzania, where in search of food flock of flamingos, rises Mount Lengai.

Michele Palazzo, Italy. Winner in the category "Cities: architecture and space." Walking during a snow storm "Jonas," which raged on the eastern coast of the USA, the photographer took the famous Flatiron Building in the background circling blizzard.

Biran Zhao, China. The winner in the nomination "Chiaroscuro" (Shaped by Light). Every morning, regardless of the season, these monks bypass the mountain in the county Bayu, Ganzi, Sichuan Province, China.

Alison Cahill, UK, the winner in the nomination "New Talent", "eye to eye". Fitri works with the customer in a hairdressing salon Son & Dad Barbers in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia.

Craig Easton, United Kingdom. The winner in the nomination "Portfolio with land, sea and air." The eastern part of the boundary wall of an artificial lake in West Kirby in a calm winter day, Wirral, United Kingdom.

Craig Easton, United Kingdom. Special prize - "Humanity". Madame Kangxi sells popcorn in a small traveling circus family in Monpazier, Dordogne, France.

Jeremy Woodhouse, United Kingdom. High score, "Chiaroscuro". Confectioner in Vinales, Cuba, cover the cake frosting in the sunset, penetrating through the doorway.

Sue O'Connell, United Kingdom. Special prize of "Humanity". These sadhus went great distances to participate in the great Kumbh Mela, a mass Hindu pilgrimage in Haridwar, Northern India.

Marcel van Osten, Netherlands. Special prize of "Humanity". Farmer sailing boat, checking a large crab farm net into the sea in Syapu, Fujian, China.

Pesterev Sergei, Russia. Special Award "Portfolio with land, sea and air." Sunset on the lake with a large ice shards.

Timothy Allen, UK. Second place in the category "Portfolio with travel and adventure." Caravans at sunset during a pilgrimage to El Rocio, Andalusia, Spain.

Zhiwen Huang, China. Special prize "Cities: architecture and space." The rising red moon illuminates the bridge across the Strait in Shenzhen, China.