
Vietnamese photographer Thanh Nguyen Phuc's photo "Bike with Flowers" conveys the vibrant street culture in the capital city of Hanoi, where vendors ride their bikes.

Swe Tun of Myanmar shows a muted portrait of two twin sisters at a Buddhist monastery near the Hpa-an township in "Twin Sisters."

"Le Mont.Saint-Michel at Sunset" by Turkish photographer Cigdem Ayyildiz was taken on the shores of Normandy, France, at sunset.

Qatari photographer Amal Prasad described how his picture, "Struggle of Life," illustrates a village fisherman's struggle for survival.

US photographer Jenny Zhao's "Polar Bear Cub" was taken in Canada in November.

Yawar Abbas' photo "Golden Snake" captures the golden sunset at the cold desert in Skardu, Pakistan.

Greek photographer Foteini Zaglara's self portrait, "Rolling Boil," shows her as she blows a plume of smoke into the camera.

Photographer Kunuch Chutmongkolporn uses the Big Buddha statue in Bangkok, Thailand, as a backdrop for his image "Big Statue in the Middle of the City."

"Mathis" by French photographer Patrick Bosc captures the model, Mathis Fugeray, by using a vintage large format camera.

This photo from Slovakian photographer Filip Hrebenda's "Born of Fire" series was the first photo he took on his expedition to the volcanic area of Fagradalsfjall in southwestern Iceland.

Russian Federation winner Marianna Smolina shot a frozen flight of an adult ballerina under the gaze of three young girls in "The Flight."

Nigerian photographer Samakinwa Emmanuel Temitope commemorates three years of playing the saxophone.

Slovenian photographer Matjaž Šimic got a close up image of white Camargue horses when visiting France one summer in his picture "Wild Horses."

Kazi Arifuzzaman of Bangladesh represents the camaraderie that exists between workers in his photo.

"A City Among the Clouds," by Wonyoung Choi captures the clouds snaking through the Bukhansan Mountain in Seoul, South Korea.