Sony World Photography Awards 2017: Winning Photos
The winners were selected from more than 105,000 entries to the Awards’ Open competition, with the expert panel of judges looking for the best single photographs across ten categories.

(CNN)Visiting a gas station is usually an inconsequential part of a road trip.

But German photographer Ralph Graf's stopover in Roy's Café, a gas station and motel along Route 66 in California, (and his ability to transform the scene into an atmospheric painting-like photograph) has landed him the best travel photo award in the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards' Open categories.
The awards' Open competition handpicked the best single image for each of these 10 categories: architecture, culture, enhanced, motion, nature, portraits, still life, street photography, travel and wildlife.
Dubbed the world's largest photography competition, Sony World Photography Awards has received more than 227,000 images from photographers from 183 countries this year, including more than 105,000 entries for the Open Competition alone.

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https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-galleries/2017/open/winners/2017-open-competition-winners

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PS: Trying to emulate Explorers in his search for events/ideas/interests around the world. There is so much knowledge to be found and to learn from.

Explorers, thanks for the inspiration.

1. © Ralph Gräf, Germany, Winner, Open Competition, Travel, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

2. © Alessandra Meniconzi , Switzerland, Winner, Open Competition, Wildlife, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

3. © Camilo Diaz, Colombia, Winner, Open Competition, Motion, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

Camilo Diaz ‘s mesmerizing shot of a crucial goal-scoring moment in an underwater rugby match.

4. © Tim Cornbill, UK, Winner, Open Competition, Architecture, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

Architecture in Berlin on a bright summer’s day.

5. © Constantinos Sofikitis, Greece, Winner, Open Competition, Street Photography, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

Halloween in NYC, one of the world’s most unique parades and the spookiest holiday in the fall.

6. © Hiroshi Tanita, Japan, Winner, Open Competition, Nature, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

The boundary line between blue and white, ice and snow which appeared in the pond to which thin ice came into winter.

7. © Jianguo Gong, China, Winner, Open Competition, Culture, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

More than 1300 people practicing Tai-Chi in China.

8. © Lise Johansson, Denmark, Winner, Open Competition, Enhanced, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

The series Hearth is exploring what it means to feel at home.

9. © Alexander Vinogradov, Winner, Open Competition, Portraits, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

10. © Sergey Dibtsev, Russia, Winner, Open Competition, Still Life, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards