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Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa won the Abstract category with this image showing waterways contaminated with waste from copper and gold mining in Geamăna, Transylvania.
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Sergei Poletaev from Russia won the Urban category with the image of a 500-year-old monastery with a power plant behind it near Moscow.
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Wujiang Zhu from China was a finalist in the Wedding category with this image of a newly married couple in a garden in Dafeng, Jiangsu.
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Norwegian photographer Terje Kolaas won the overall award with this photo of thousands of pink-legged geese in Levanger, Norway.
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Spanish photographer Igor Altuna was runner-up in the Wildlife category with this image of lions feeding on a buffalo in Zambia.
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Australian photographer Phil De Glanville won the Sports category with this surf photo captured in Western Australia.
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Trung Pham Huy from Vietnam won the People category with this image of a fisherman in a mangrove forest.
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Italian photographer Paolo Crocetta came in second in the Abstract category with this container image in Veneto, Italy.
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Alexandr Vlassyuk from Kazakhstan was runner-up in the People category with this image showing two people lying on the ice in the Kapchagai reserve in Kazakhstan.
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Matteo Originale from Italy won the Wedding category with this image of a sunset in Marina di Pisa, Italy.
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Pierluigi Orler from Italy was runner-up in the Sport category with this image of a snowmobile in Bernau, Germany.
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American photographer Martín Sánchez won the Nature category with this shot of a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
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Oman's Qasim Al Farsi won the Wildlife category after capturing the moment when a green turtle returns to the sea after laying its eggs.
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American photographer George Steinmetz took second place in the Urban category with this image from the Kingdom Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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American photographer Janessa Anderson took second place in the Nature category with this image of drifting ice sheets in Alaska.
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A sea turtle, a volcanic eruption and a spectacular sunset are among the winners of the "Drone Photo Awards 2021," a competition of photos taken with drones.
The winner is an image of thousands of pink-legged geese flying over snowy terrain.
This photograph was taken by Norwegian Terje Kolaas, and on Tuesday the Siena Awards, the international visual arts festival that organizes the competition, announced the winner in a press release.
The overall winner of the contest is this image of thousands of pink-legged geese by Norwegian photographer Terje Kolaas.
Alongside Kolaas' stunning image are winners from other categories, who were selected from tens of thousands of applicants from 102 countries, according to organizers.
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Animals in funny poses at the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards
Russian photographer Sergei Poletaev won the Urban category with his image of a monastery near Moscow showing a huge power station in the background, while Oman's Qasim Al Farsi took first place in Wildlife with a photo of a green turtle preparing to return to the sea after laying their eggs on the beach.
Australian Phil De Glanville captured the moment when surfer Ollie Henry took a terrifying wave to win the Sport category, and Vietnamese photographer Trung Pham Huy topped the People category with a picture of a fisherman in a mangrove forest.
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Stunning images from the 2021 Best Wildlife Photographer competition
American photographer Martin Sánchez's photo of a volcanic eruption in Iceland won the Nature category;
Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa won the Abstract category with his image of waterways in Transylvania poisoned by chemical waste from copper and gold mining;
and the Wedding category was won by Matteo Original, from Italy, with a picture of a sunset in Marina di Pisa.
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The images will appear in an exhibition to be held in the Italian city of Siena from October 23 to December 5 this year.
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