The World's Best Drone Photography: From SkyPixel

PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS

2016 SKYPIXEL

Camel caravan in the desert – won first prize in the Professional Beauty category.Photograph: Hanbing Wang/SkyPixel

Professional Beauty. Third Prize The Earth. Photograph: SkyPixel

Dam near perfect ... second prize in the same category was of the Huia Dam in Auckland, New Zealand. Hong Kong-based SkyPixel was launched in 2014. Photograph: Brendon Dixon/SkyPixel

Professional:Drones in Use First Prize A Happy Morning Photograph; Roman Neimann/Skypixel

Professional:Drones in Use . Third Prize Photograph Norman Nollau/Skypixel

Grand Prize2016 SkyPixel Photo of the Year. Catching the winning image ... fishermen close the net in Fujian province in China. This was the grand prize winner in the competition. Photograph: Ge Zheng/Ge Zheng/SkyPixel

Green waves ... this shot, taken in Italy, won second prize in the Amateur Beauty category. Photograph: Mauro Pagliai/SkyPixel

Dead straight ... this image of a road bridge in the US won first prize in the Amateur Beauty category. Photograph: SkyPixel

Ice art ... third prize in the Amateur Beauty category. This image is of a frozen river in the US. Photograph: SkyPixel

City cool … people play amid the fountains.Photograph: SkyPixel

And they were all yellow … uncredited landscape shot. Photograph: SkyPixel

Enthusiast:First Prize Despectus by Fifa Photograph: SkyPixel

Third Prize. The Phantom of the Earth by 零 大魔王 Photograph: SkyPixel

On the terraces … the competition – the first run by SkyPixel – attracted 27,000 entries. Photograph: SkyPixel

Rainbow lines … a track runs between the multicoloured lines of tulips in the Netherlands.Photograph: SkyPixel

Photograph: SkyPixel

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