
Last year certainly went out with a bang! Today, I’m pleased to bring to you the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) winners. The contest has been around for 16 years and has attracted some really incredible talent. It was started in 2003 by photographer Chris Coe and his partner, Karen Coe, a PR and marketing consultant. In the early aughts, there were precious few international photography competitions, so the couple decided to start their own. The small but well-respected contest has been growing steadily since its beginning. To date, the competition has seen entries from countless photographers hailing from more than 140 countries.
There are nine categories to explore, but it’s the Faces/People/Cultures photos that most attracted me. I hope you are as intrigued by the photos as I was!
You can follow the competition and see more of the entries on the TPOTY website.
Images property of TPOTY and the individual photographers.









January 4, 2019 at 9:04 am
Wouldn’t it be fun to visit some of thees in real life?
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January 4, 2019 at 9:47 am
Oh, boy, would it!
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January 4, 2019 at 9:11 am
All the photos are amazing!
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January 4, 2019 at 9:48 am
They really are, and some of the photographers are quite young!
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January 4, 2019 at 12:49 pm
Wow! I’ll have to explore more fully.
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January 4, 2019 at 2:47 pm
This post makes me want to grab my passport and my camera. Want to run away with me for a bit? I am going to click the provided link and lose the rest of my free time to wistful thinking and adding to my travel bucket list.
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January 4, 2019 at 2:54 pm
I’m in! That would be so much fun. I suspect we’d be good travel buddies.
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January 4, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Now we just need to find those blasted leprechauns.
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January 4, 2019 at 3:01 pm
Indeed!
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February 24, 2019 at 7:54 pm
When I was searching travel photography on Google, cane across this blog and was soooo stunned by your pictures, stories and voice! Now I’m here two months later and found this! You are a huge inspiration to me—killing it out there with that lense!!
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February 24, 2019 at 7:56 pm
Oh so sorry, just realizing these are not your pictures oops! 🙊
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February 25, 2019 at 1:29 am
No worries. I was away from my computer today, so I’m just catching up now. Glad you enjoyed them AND glad you found the post so you could go look at the competition page.
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March 25, 2019 at 6:02 am
nice
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March 25, 2019 at 6:11 am
Thanks!
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