People from 126 countries have entered this competition, which recognises the best aerial images taken with drones.
Jim Picôt has been this year's winner of the Drone Photo Award thanks to his photograph Love. Heart of Nature , which shows a shark in the middle of a school of fish moving underwater in the symbolic shape of a heart. But the most interesting thing about this edition has been, apart from the increase in participants (from 126 countries) thanks to the fact that professional drones are becoming more widespread, the total number of categories.
What's new in the Drone Photo Award 2020 compared to previous years.
Unlike last year, in 2020 there were categories for Nature, People, Cities, Animals, Abstract, Weddings, Sport and a new one, Life under Covid-19 . In all of them there is a winning snapshot, a runner-up and a “Highly recommended” category by the Jury. 45 of these images will be part of the Above Us Only Sky exhibition and will be part of the Siena Awards Festival .
The Drone Photo Award winners by category are...
In the Nature category, the winner was Joseph Cheires with The gray whale has fun pushing tourists , which followed a rumour about this playful whale;
In Gente , Alessandra Meniconzi managed to capture locals from the Eurasian steppe moving over frozen rivers and lakes in Tierra helado .
In Cities the winner was Tomasz Kowalski with the spectacular Alien Structure in the Land of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur;
Dmitrii Viliunov 's Where the Herons Live was declared the winner in the Animals category.
Paul Hoelen achieved glory with his Phoenix Rising in the Abstract category, which symbolized the mining industry of Owens Lake;
In Weddings , using leftover flowers to create something new, the winner was Mohamed Azmeel .
And in Sports , photographer Roberto Corinaldesi managed to freeze a group of swimmers entering the water right between two waves.
For the new category Life under Covid-19 , the Jury opted for Black Flags , by Tomer Appelbaum , taken in Israel with thousands of people protesting in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
If you are still curious, here is the complete gallery .
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