See winning photos of NatGeo's 2017 Travel photos

See beautiful and inspiring photos for viewers who won NatGeo Travel Photographer 2017 - a travel photography competition organized by National Geographic.

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The photo called 'The Power of Nature' captures the beautiful image of a lightning strike against the black smoke of the spraying volcano of Sergio Tapiro Velasco.This photo won both the Natural category and the title Grand Prize in the NatGeo Travel Photographer contest in 2017.

A photo of a Japanese building by photographer Tetsuya Hashimoto.

A photo of a library in Stuttgart (Germany) of photographer Norbet Fritz won the Urban category.It is quite similar to scenes from fiction films.

Jobit George has won the category of People with a photo that captures a simple but heartwarming moment of love at the mosque in New Delhi, India.

To capture a shark in their natural habitat, photographer Shane Gross placed the camera on the rock and used a remote trigger.

Photo of Reynold's volcano in East Java, Indonesia Riksa Dewantara.

Andrzej Bochenski's 'new city in the desert' was taken at Muhafazat al-Buraimi in Oman.Viewers are not surprised by the neat construction here.

Photo of 'City Walls' taken at Kowloon Camp City, Hong Kong (China) by author Andy Yeung won second prize in Urban category.

Photo of Moin Ahmed's 'Man on the Train' taken at Tongi Railway Station in Gazipur, Bangladesh received an award in the category of People.

Mysterious and glittery scenery at the temple in Tamba, Japan on a summer evening taken by photographer Yutaka Takafuji.

Silence in a temple south of Mount Agung, in Bali (Indonesia) was left by Michael Dean Morgan.Local people here often come to pray and receive blessings from monks.

Hiromi Cano's picture of "Living" about swans fluttering over the water.

'Are you looking at me?'Julius Y won the second prize in the category of Human images thanks to the moment of watching interesting pictures of visitors.The characters in the painting seem to be curious as to the external viewers.

Rodney Bursiel has captured an interesting image of the wave surrounding a surfing man in the sea off Tavarua, Fiji surprising the viewer.