The winners of the contest aerial photographs SkyPixel

• The winners aerial photographs Skypixel

annually to the SkyPixel competition judges received thousands of aerial photographs taken with drones. Of them choose the most spectacular shots that honor with prizes. This year, the main victory was awarded to the author of a picture of one of the most famous tourist sites - the fortress of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy.

The participants of the photo competition have applied in several categories: "Nature", "Architecture", "Sports", "exciting". Also identified the best shots based on the People's Choice Award. The biggest winner was the German photographer Derick Baumgertner (Deryk Baumgärtner). He handed the photo equipment worth about 12 thousand dollars for a picture of the island-fortress of Mont Saint-Michel located in Normandy, France.

Grand Prix. The island fortress of Mont-Saint-Michel foggy morning. Photo by: Derick Baumgertner.

This world heritage site is visited by about three million people every year. In Baumgertnera lens, it seems even more amazing. We offer a look at the winners SkyPixel 2018 as well as the images that were the best according to the audience.

Category "Nature"

1st place. Hungry Hippos. Photo by: Martin Sanchez.

2 nd place. "Track". Snow in the desert Taklamakan forms a rare texture on a desert lake, and from a height of 400 meters of ice pattern resembles a huge mark as if the trail of aliens visiting Earth. Photo by Wang Hanbin.

3 rd place. Natural engraving in Utah. Photo by: 梦中 画.

Category "exciting"

1 place. Flowers on the water. Photo by: Han Fang.

2 nd place. Collection of salt in Vietnam. Photo by: TuấnNguyễn.

3 rd place. Geese are collected in inflorescence. Photo by: 邱 会 宁.

Category "Architecture"

1 place. "Island" of 43 frames. Photo by: Panvelvet.

2 nd place. sunrise in Bagan, Myanmar. Photo by: Witold Ziomek.

3 rd place. Skyscraper "Grand Lisboa", Macau's tallest building. Photo by: 吖 震.

Category "Sports"

1 place. Running on sand dunes, Vietnam. Photo by: Trung Pham.

2 nd place. Shadow of skier. Photo by: oberschneider.com.

3 rd place. Estonian champion in hammer throwing Katie Oyaloo. Photo by: Taavi Purtsak.

The nominated participants

The Awakening. Photo by: Peter Leary.

Pair. Photo by: Baltskars.

The famous skiers on the top of Mont Blanc. Photo by: Mathis Dumas

The National Library of Kosovo. Photo by: Agon Niemann.

There, in heaven, there is a place where it seems as if the mountain pose. Photo by: Andrea Dzhumelli.

The choice of the audience

Red Train. Landwasser Viaduct in Switzerland. Photo by: sebastianmzh.

Bridge in the clouds. Photo by: Lee Wei

"The Motherland", Kiev. Photo by: Sergey Ristenko.

Moonlight and antiquity. Colosseum, Rome. Photo by: Mauro Paglia.

above the ski resort of Deer Valley (Deer Valley, "Deer Valley"), Utah, United States. Photo by: Alan Blakely.

The double habitat, China. Photo by: Lee Zhenglin Dowd (李 政 霖 Dawood).

An endless road: summer vs. winter. To remove the photo, it took a lot of effort. Perfectly aligned two photographs taken at intervals of 8 months. Photo by: Michal Sadowski.