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School is Out by Dana Allen. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Nature; Underwater, Professional.

by Dana Allen. School is Out. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Nature; Underwater, Professional.

Check out the BeautifulNow team’s favorite winners of 2015 fine arts Photo Contests from the International Photography Awards, Sony, and Nikon.

Image: by Christian Å slund. Landmannalaugar. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Fine Art; Landscape, Professional.

Image: by Kuo Hsing Lai. Xanadu. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 3rd place in Nature; Seasons, Professional.

Image: by Ian Ely. Crystal Passage. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 1st place in Nature; Sunset, Professional.

Image: by Gerard Frances. Sky. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Nature; Sunset, Professional.

Image: by Philippe Liezi. Everest & #039; Sunset. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 3rd place in Nature; Sunset, Professional.

Image: by Stuart Fisher. Splash Dance. AtEdge, Splashlight, & The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Special; Special Effects, Professional.

Image: by Saurabh Dua. Evasion. AtEdge, Splashlight, and The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 1st place in Advertising, Fashion; Professional.

Image: by Sean DuFrene. The Wedge. AtEdge, Splashlight, and The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 1st place in Advertising; Self-Promotion, Professional.

1. INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

When we saw the award winning photos from the 2015 International Photography Awards, we were seriously blown away. Sponsored by AtEdge, Splashlight, and The American Society of Media Photographers, this contest aims to help discover and promote new talent.

From beautiful seascapes, to artistic portraits, to carefully composed symbolic scenes, the photos above were our absolute favorites.

Image: by Daesung Lee. Futuristic Archaeology. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. Finalist in Conceptual Category.

Image: By Hector Munoz. Quetzalcoatl. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. 1st place in Arts & Culture Category.

Image: By Antony Crossfield. Bomb. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. 1st place in Enhanced Category.

Image: by Armin Appel. Schoolyard. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. 1st place in Architecture Category.

Image: by Aprison Aprison. Jump! The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. Finalist in Arts & Culture Category.

Image: by Farid Sani. Berlin. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. Finalist in Travel Category.

Image: by Vlad Cioplea. Dog Fight. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. Split Second Category.

Image: by Gareth Lowndes. Desert Dawn. The World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards. Travel Category.

2. SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Check out our favorite winners of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. It’s the world’s biggest photography competition, judged and sponsored by the World Photography Organization and the World Photographic Academy.

Image: by Katsuhiro Noguchi. Flowers of Fukushima. The Nikon Corporation’s Nikon Photo Contest. 1st place in Still Photo Category.

Image: by Adidekel. Blooming. The Nikon Corporation’s Nikon Photo Contest. 1st Place in Generation N Category.

3. NIKON PHOTO CONTEST INTERNATIONAL

We had so many favorite winners in the Nikon Photo Contest.

This competition, interestingly, only allows submissions from digital cameras, in order to level the playing field for photographers working in varying conditions around the world. The sheer creativity and pure beauty of the winning photos is astounding.

Image: by Igor Siwanowicz. Intake of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), a freshwater carnivorous plant. The Nikon Corporation’s Nikon Photomicrography Contest. 3rd Place.

Image: by Ralph Claus Grimm. Eye of a Honey Bee. The Nikon Corporation’s Nikon Photomicrography Contest. 1st Place.

Image: by Igor Siwanowicz. Intake of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), a freshwater carnivorous plant. The Nikon Corporation’s Nikon Photomicrography Contest. Image of Distinction.

4. NIKON SMALL WORLD PHOTO CONTEST

The Nikon Photomicrography Contest, is one of our favorite photo competitions. We are astounding at the incredible beauty that is too small to see with our naked eyes but impossible to look away from when it is revealed by microscopic photography. These are some of our favorite award winners.

Image: by Kristina Varaksina. Porcelain Beauty. AtEdge, Splashlight, and The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 1st place in Advertising; Beauty, Professional.

Image: by Jackson Carvalho. Pack Doll. AtEdge, Splashlight, and The American Society of Media Photographers’s International Photography Awards. 2nd place in Advertising; Fashion, Professional.

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