Who Won the Best in Travel Photo Award 2019?

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” Larry Bird

We are honored to share the winners from our 2019 Best in Travel Photo Award.

Thank you to everyone who participated and our 4 amazing judges!

Click here to see all of the entries.

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

FIRST PLACE: Pranab Basak for Morning netting in Bay of Bengal, India

SECOND PLACE: Eduardo Armas for Rising Up in the Canary Islands

THIRD PLACE: Alex Gill for Footprints in Morocco

Honorable Mention:

Katie McCormick for Rainbow Mountain Summit in Peru

Donnie Sexton for Sahara Adventure, Morocco

Syed Mahabubul Kader for Fishermen are preparing to fish in the sea of Bangladesh

Ivan Baxarias Doñaque for Le Mont Saint Michel at night with low tide: France

Andric Pasillas Rodríguez for The Garden of Serenity (Japan)

2018-19 Photo Award Finalists Part 1 and Part 2

Enkereri school children in Maasai Mara. Photo by Matt Payne

Thank you so much to our four judges!

Matt and I traveled together in Tanzania and Kenya where he took this photo of me and the school children. He is recently back from Uganda and shared his photos and video in this article, “The Real Power of Travel Photography: A Photo Essay from Uganda” on We Said Go Travel.

Finalists from the 2017 Photo Award: Part 1 and Part 2

Winners from 2017 Award announced Sept 2018

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Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.