Mist rising from the Tuscan hills, a tiny fish staring at the ocean from inside the neck of a glass bottle, and a pangolin tucked contentedly under the chin of her carer are among the winning entries from the 2023 Travel Photographer of the Year competition.
Shot all around the globe, the images illuminate both the beauty and tragedy that arise when humans interact with the natural world.
Click through to see the winners.
Judges crowned Slovenian photographer Andre Ja Ravnak the overall winner for her depictions of dream-like European landscapes, after considering more than 20,000 images submitted by photographers from more than 150 countries.
Ravnak, an architect by trade, acknowledged the "complex task" faced by the judges and thanked them in a statement for recognising her work.
This shot was taken in Tuscany, Italy.
"I've seen many excellent and creative photos in this year's TPOTY final and it's such a great honour to find my work recognised," Ja Ravnak said.
"Congratulations to all the winners; together, we are enthusiastically documenting this wonderful world, and perhaps this is a small contribution, a reminder to preserve its wonder for future generations."
Another of the winners' shots, taken of a farm in Braslovce, Slovenia.
"Once all the strings are manually stretched, the workers ensure that the small hop seedlings start climbing vertically," she said.
"Once this is done, they leave the Savinja Valley for a few months and return in late summer, when the hops are ripe for harvesting."
Another of Ja Ravnak's landscape shots, taken in South Moravia, near Kyov, Czechia.
"In early spring, the soil is still too cold for growth. An interesting pattern occurred while a new orchard was planted on the slope of the hill, making the scene very abstract," she said.
A special mention went to this shot by UK photographer Andrew Parkinson.
It's a yellow armadillo galloping down a pathway at a secluded lodge in Brazil.
Turkish photographer F.Dilek Yurdakul caught this snap of a school student in Chitral, Pakistan.
"The Kalash live within the borders of Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, yet their schools are still co-educational," the photographer said.
"Gender diversity and unity are viewed as nothing to fear. Children are educated equally and together."
This image taken in the Maasai Mara in Kenya epics a young wildebeest lost in the Great Wildebeest Migration madness.
"He stands there confused whilst other wildebeest rush to cross the river," photographer Neel Shah, 16, from Kenya said.
He was a People's Choice winner.
Despite being just 14 years old, Zayan Durrani from the USA won for this show of the Litli Hrutur volcano in Iceland.
He said he visited the area with his father, hiking for kilometres through mountains to reach it.
"We were in a race against time because a thick, noxious fog was rolling in and we were told that we would have to evacuate the area," the photographer said.
Lalith Ekanayake won a Highly Commended title for this shot of a procession of Asian elephants weaving through a desolate landscape, "designated as a dumping ground for humanity's excesses."
Other winners included Athanasios Maloukos in the People and Cultures category for his photos of shamans performing rituals to connect with spirits in Siberia.
Australian photographer Ignacio Palacios won the MPB One Shot prize for this shot, A Quieter life, taken in La Puna, Argentina.
French teen Arthur Cech, 15, was a joint runner up in the youth category for this picture of wild monkey in Morocco.
"I tried to capture the special atmosphere of the forest and the life of the monkeys: calm, peaceful, cosy, familiar," he said.
Meanwhile, 14-year-old Caden Shepard Choi won the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award for her black-and-white series of photos depicting the Navajo people of Chinle, Arizona herding sheep, shearing them and then weaving with the wool.
Other winners included American photographer Martin Broen in the Nature, Wildlife & Conservation category with his photo series of the Mobula ray migration in Baja California and Mexico.
This shot of Dixon Hemphill, 97, crossing the finish line in the M95 (Men 95-99) 200m dash, accompanied by a woman for safety was one of a winning portfolio for Alain Schroeder, from Belgium.
It was taken at the Masters Indoor Championships in New York.
"At 97, it's hard for him to find anyone to race against in the M95 category," Schroeder said.
"Hemphill rediscovered athletics in his seventies.
'I got a medal and thought, well, this is fun. That was 50 years ago, and I've been running ever since, he said."
American, Lilly Zhang, 17, won the 15–18-year-old category with her ethereal images of a Pennsylvania lake, and the wildlife drawn to it, in the early morning light.
Italian photographer Andrea Peruzzi won the MPB One Shot category for this image of a Bedouin jumping between the overhanging rocks at the Treasury of Petra.
Martin Broen from the USA won for this image in the wildlife and conservation portfolio category.
Taken in the Philippines, a yellow gobby fish watches the ocean from the entrance of his crystal palace, a glass bottle at the bottom of the sea.
This shot is dubbed The Last Embrace.
It's a young lioness feeding on a dead female elephant in Tanzania.
It was highly commended by judges.
This shot by Kazuaki Koseki is of Lake Shirakawa, in Japan, won a prize for best single image in a landscape and environment portfolio.
"For a period from the end of winter to early summer, Lake Shirakawa is filled with water from melting snow and a 'submerged forest' appears," the photographer said.