A photo contest organized by SkyPixel, a community of millions of professional drone photographers, selected the best aerial photos of 2016.
Impressive photo of camels walking in the desert by author Hanbing Wang taken by flycam.
The photo contest received 27,000 works by professional and amateur drone photographers from 131 countries and territories. Ge Zheng's photo of a fisherman fishing in China won the grand prize.
The photo that won the second prize of the contest was taken by the author with the nickname Dixonltd_user when he was lying on a bridge over a spillway.
“Meet the Phantom” is the name of the photo taken by HackerSunday. It depicts the meeting of the drone and the swan taking off from the lake.
The third prize in the professional photography category belongs to author Heng Li with his surreal image of a swirling firework burning over a blue undulating land.
The fanciful landscape under the twinkling stars of an Asian city in this photo titled Starry Night, won first place in the 360-degree photography category. Original 360 degree photo see here.
The third joint prize in the professional photography category by Norman Nollau captures the Black Forest covered in fog in Germany.
Roman Neimann with a photo depicting the excitement of a naked man jumping into a lake in the early morning.
2nd place in the 360 photo category is Paul Oostveen's shot at the Mysterious Lake in Iceland. See original 360-degree image here.
Shoushan's photo of the colorful rocky mountains of Zhangye Danhe Geopark (China) ranked third in the 360 photo category. View the original 360-degree image here.
The natural beauty of a glacier in northeast China looks like an extraterrestrial image
The work "Blue Waves" won the second prize in the beautiful landscape category, taken in a plain in Italy.
This image of a 16th-century house made of 700 stacked stones won first place in the amateur photographer category.
The second prize in the amateur photographer category went to Lili Cui with the scene of a drone flying in the middle of the forest on a gloomy day.
The work "Flying Ink of Tianshan Mountain" won the top prize in the category of 360-degree photos taken from a drone through the clouds of a forest and winding mountain road in the Tianshan mountains, China. See original 360-degree image here.
360 degree image of skyscrapers and streets with shimmering lights during a sunset in Chengdu city, China. See original 360-degree image here.
