The competition highlights the best of the Earth's natural beauty, naming winners in categories such as Aerial, Desert, and Seascapes, as well as the overall Photograph of the Year and Photographer of the Year based on four-photo portfolios. This year, a panel of judges chose winners from 4,035 entries.
Here are the stunning images from this year's awards.
Ciaran Willmore's image of water flowing through the Faroe Islands won first place in Seascapes.
In the Desert category, John Seager took first place with a dramatic shot of a salt flat in Argentina.
In the Black and White category, Jim Guerard's winning photo showed trees reflected in the still waters of George L. Smith State Park in Georgia.
Thomas Vijayan won first place in the Snow and Ice category with his panoramic photo of ice melting in Svalbard.
Casey McCallister captured a snapshot of birds on the shoreline of a lake in Boulder, Colorado, winning in the contest's Aerial category.
Matt Meisenheimer, who came in third place for Photographer of the Year, submitted landscape photos from a variety of locations.
In El Chalten, Patagonia, he took a photo of the sun streaming through trees from behind snow-covered mountain ranges.
He also photographed a rainbow in the misty forests of Kauai, Hawaii.
His image of Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve shows water gushing through colorful shrubs.
Andrew Mielzynski won second place in the Photographer of the Year contest.
His photos focus on the silhouettes of trees in the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
He photographed the rippled reflections of tree trunks in Alberta's Abraham Lake.
He captured the prism of colors in the region's crystal-clear waters.
Tony Hewitt was named Photographer of the Year for his collection of photos taken in Western Australia.
Hewitt took aerial shots of landscapes like the King River Tidal Plain.
He captured the gold and grey colors of Western Australia's Wheatbelt region.
He also photographed the stunning pastels of Shark Bay.
Isabella Tabacchi's photo of grooves in the ground created by rivers in Iceland earned third place in the International Landscape Photograph of the Year category.
Peter Meyer was the runner-up with his photo of wildfires on K'gari, also known as Fraser Island, in Queensland, Australia.
Blake Randall's photo of colorful trees in Alberta, Canada, earned the title of International Landscape Photograph of the Year.
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