Siena International Photo Award is a relatively new photography contest, it has been running for the third year in 2017. Despite its early beginnings, this year there were 50,000 submissions from professional photographers from 161 different countries. As always, we like to feature the best of the best to inspire you.

This year features stunning landscapes, creatures from the mysterious and mesmerising animal kingdom and beautiful people from around the globe. The photography contest winners were selected from different categories like Storytelling, Animals in their Environment, Fragile Ice and more. The results? As fascinating as the suggested creative categories.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the amazing contest winners from the Siena International Photo Awards 2017:

Photo of the Year

Photo of the Year was given to Randy Olson for his work ‘Sand Hill Cranes’. This fascinating shot features a flock of cranes in motion, illuminated by a glorious lighting strike at a river in Nebraska.

Sand Hill Cranes by Randy Olson. Wood River, Nebraska, U.S. SIPA Contest Photo of the Year.

‘Story-telling’ category winners

Pandas Gone Wild by Ami Vitale

Els Enfarinats by Antonio Gibotta

Kentucky’s Second Amendment Paradise by M. Scott Mahaskey

‘Fragile Ice’ category winners

Dreaming on Sea Ice by Roie Galitz

Ice by Marcin Dobas

Ludovico by Pedro Armestre

‘Sports in action’ category winners

Great Britain Team by Tim Clayton

“Superman” Monfils by Jason o’brien

Donavon at Cloud Break by Rodney Bursiel

‘Architecture & Urban Spaces’ category winners

Book Temple III by Hans-Martin Doelz

Allianz Headquarters by Adrien Barakat

Berlin Biker by Wenpeng Lu

‘Animals in their Environment’ category winners

Attack by Sergey Gorshkov

Pandas Gone Wild by Ami Vitale

Baby Sea Lion by Filippo Borghi

‘The beauty of the nature’ category winners

Beast by James Smart

Middle Earth by Enrico Fossati

Prince of the Waters by Yannick Gouguenheim

‘Fascinating faces and characters’ category winners

I’m Here by Joao Taborda

Children of Uganda by Ya Kuang

Dasha by Alexander Vinogradov

‘Journeys & Adventures’ category winners

At World’s End by Alessandra Meniconzi

Selfie Culture by Jelena Jankovic

Eye-teasing by Pronob Ghosh

‘General Monochrome’ category winners

Crow of Lviv by Jack Savage

‘General Color’ category winners

Protestor’s Eyes by Jonathan Bachman

The Morning Ritual by Nick Ng

Simply Motions. Episode 2 by Petr Lovigin

‘Under 20’ category winners

Man Running a Tea House by Zijie Gong

The Call by Krishna Vr

Blood and Pain by Nermesh Singh Gurdib Singh

There are thousands of other honorable mentions, second and third place winners that are worth seeing. If you’d like to see more entries and contest winners, go to the Siena International Photo Award 2017 gallery.

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