Incredible photos of the magic of motion

This year's theme of the One-Shot Contest, the International Photography Awards (IPA) is an image that deeply conveys the concept of motion. Hossein Farmani, the founder of IPA, said that everything is moving, changing and developing. So movement is a great subject to explore through photography.

The competition has attracted many photographers of all professional levels. They captured many amazing scenes of people, animals and machines in various moving states in an artistic way with just a short press.

The overall winner and the first prize in this year's Fine Arts category went to the 'Wild Carrot' photo by Canadian photographer Anne Mason-Hoerter.

To create a work that cannot be captured in the wild, Mason-Hoerter spent more than a month combining more than 50 different images and elements depicting the movements of the carrots at night.

Here are the winning photos in the categories in this year's One-Shot contest, please take a look.

'Almost Free' by photographer Patrizia Burra (Italy), won the second prize in the Fine Arts category. Ugo Ricciardi's 'Giant's Causeway and Figure, Northern Ireland', third prize in Fine Arts category. 'Wallace Flying Frog' by Chin Leong Tao (Singapore), first prize in Nature 'Flying over the Sea' by Claudio Piccoli (Italy), second prize in the Nature category. 'Surfacing' by Jean-Christophe Girard Lemay (Canada), Third Prize in Nature. Work 'Night Journey' by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory (United States), second prize in the category Human. Work 'Good Sheepherd' by F. Dilek Uyar (Turkey), Third Prize in the category of People. 'School Run, Rwanda' by Benjamin Buckland (Switzerland), first prize in Street Photography 'Flying Boys' by Dimpy Bhalotia (India), second prize in Street Photography 'Momentum' by George Stastny (Canada), third in Street Photography Works 'The Urban Semiconductor' by Sur Young Ken (Korea), first prize in Technology / Machinery category. 'Porsche Type 64 Ice Race' by Richard Seymour (United Kingdom), second prize in Technology / Machinery category. 'Moonlight over the Atlantic' by Christiaan van Heijst (Netherlands), third prize in Technology / Machinery category.