Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year

Launched in 1996, the Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year competition is the UK's most prestigious annual travel photography award, open to amateur and professional photographers. The awards attract over 5,000 entries every year and are judged by a world-class panel of professional photographers and travel experts.

We had stacks of entries for the 2009 outing of our annual photography competition, and the standard was as breathtaking as ever. Our top team of judges had their work cut out, but managed to award each of the four Amateur category winners a wonderful photo commission to the Quito region of Ecuador.

2009 WANDERLUST TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE YEAR

>>See the winning photos here

>>See the shortlisted photos here

The winning photos were revealed at Destinations London on Friday 5 February and exhibited there. Winning and shortlisted photos will be exhibited at Destinations Birmingham NEC.

The results will also be printed in the March 2010 issue of Wanderlust magazine, The Independent newspaper, as well as galleries on wanderlust.co.uk 

Prizes and once-in-a-lifetime photography trips to be won!

The top prize winners in the Amateur category will be off to Quito on a photo commission, exploring the city and the surrounding regions. Quito Tourism (www.quito.com.ec) and LAN will whisk the top photographer in each of the four amateur categories (and a friend) to the Quito region on a mission to capture some of its magic.

Photos in the Amateur category are divided into four categories: People, Wildlife, Landscape or Travel Icons – classic shots of places, events and people that have achieved an iconic visual status in the world of travel.

The Portfolio category was open to both amateur and professional photographers. Here, we’re after a set of five eye-catching images, all themed to fit one of the four main categories. The winner will walk away with £5,000.

2008 WANDERLUST TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE YEAR COMPETITION

>>See the winning and shortlisted photos and watch video interviews with the judges and winners here

2007 WANDERLUST TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE YEAR

>>See the winning and shortlisted photos from the 2007 competition in our online gallery here

>>Watch a video interview with 2007 Portfolio winner Tom Bourdon here

>>Watch a video interview with 2007 People category winner Kal Khogali here

VISIONS OF WANDERLUST – THE BEST OF THE TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE YEAR COMPETITION

The three books in the Visions of Wanderlust series are compendiums of some of the best photographs from the first ten years of the Travel Photo of the Year competition.

>>You can buy copies of the books here