Drone Photo Award winners capture a dizzyingly fantastic view of the world

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Women collect water from a dry riverbed in Khulna, Bangladesh. This photo was one of the «highly commended images from this year’s Drone Photo Contest.

Sujon Adhikary

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Sujon Adhikary

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A fisherman paddles through mangrove trees at the Tam Giang Lagoon in the Hue province of Vietnam. Mangroves lose all their leaves in winter, exposing their whitish trunks.

Trung Pham Huy

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Trung Pham Huy

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Photographer Alexandr Vlassyuk and a friend «sunbathe on ice hummocks at the Kapchagay reservoir in Almaty, Kazakhstan. «Without waiting for summer, we decided to open the beach season! says Vlassyuk.

Alexandr Vlassyuk

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Alexandr Vlassyuk

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Women sort dry red chiles at a factory in Bogura, Bangladesh. «Bogura’s chiles are famous around the country, says photographer MD Tanveer Hassan Rohan. But the workers only get paid «$2 after 10 hours of work – and in some places they get less.

MD Tanveer Hassan Rohan

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MD Tanveer Hassan Rohan

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People dine alfresco at makeshift restaurants in the snowy valley of Kongdoori, Gulmarg, in India’s Jammu & Kashmir.

Dipabrata Sur

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Dipabrata Sur

Women harvest grass in Vietnam. The grass has many uses, including as fodder for animals and fertilizer.

Khanh Phan

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Khanh Phan

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A photo from Adas Vasiliauskas’ series «COVID Self-Isolation Sucks, which earned a commendation from this year’s Drone Photo Awards. The set of images, taken on the streets of his native Lithuania, plays on people’s desire to «live life despite living in a «COVID nightmare, he says. In this particular photo, a man posing on the bed of a truck pretends to ride his scooter.

Adas Vasiliauskas

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A photo from Adas Vasiliauskas’ series «COVID Self-Isolation Sucks, which earned a commendation from this year’s Drone Photo Awards. The set of images, taken on the streets of his native Lithuania, plays on people’s desire to «live life despite living in a «COVID nightmare, he says. In this particular photo, a man posing on the bed of a truck pretends to ride his scooter.

Adas Vasiliauskas