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After 9 months of competition and more than 130,000 submissions from photographers all over the world, the Top 50 finalists for the #AGORAawards2019 have been revealed.

From seals resting on the Antarctic ice to Nomads crossing the Sahara desert, this selection will make you travel across the continents to discover the wonders of Planet Earth and its various cultures, people and incredible landscapes.

The AGORA Awards 2019, hosted by free-to-use photography app AGORA images will reward the best image of the year with the grand prize of $25,000 for its photographer. Unlike any other contest, the third edition of the AGORA Awards recognizes the single most voted photo of the year, without any photography genre categories.

The competition has been running throughout 2019, where photographers from all around the world - amateurs and professional alike - could submit their best shots. The 50 finalists, coming from 21 different countries, are now competing to cast the most votes and will be awarded on November 6th during the official AGORA awards ceremony taking place in Barcelona.

Which of them will win the life-changing prize? See them now and have your say!

More info: agoraimages.com | Facebook | youtube.com

#1

Ant Balancing The Earth

Ant Balancing The Earth

It took the photographer 4 hours to take this shot of an ant carrying water drops spread on a piece of thread.

By @anadgphotography (Philippines), Analiza De Guzman/AGORA images

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#2

The Best Friends

The Best Friends

A lizard and a snail having a cute moment.

by @andihalil (Indonesia), Andi Halil / AGORA images

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#3

Reaching For Heaven

Reaching For Heaven

The Mont Saint Michel, France, lost in the middle of the fog.

By @thedronelad (UK), Konrad Paruch/AGORA images

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#4

Incense Work

Incense Work

In Vietnam, incense is known to connect living people with ancestors and gods.

By @ptkhanhhvnh (Vietnam), Khánh Phan/AGORA images

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Monika Soffronow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does anyone have any context knowledge to add to this gorgeous composition of colours and shapes? Is this a photo of a display? Of the manufacturing process? Preparations for a ritual/festival/holiday?

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#5

Songs Of Freedom

Songs Of Freedom

More than a photo - an unspoken struggle for freedom and belonging, inspired by Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song'.

By @eighthman (Ghana), Michael Aboya/AGORA images

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#6

Mother's Goodness

Mother's Goodness

Perfect timing for this shot of a Hoopoe bird feeding its chicks.

By @phyomoe (Myanmar), Phyo Moe/AGORA images

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BusLady
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It would be easy for the chicks to see her coming. What beautiful color. Looks like it's wearing a crown.

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#7

Rainy Day

Rainy Day

Red-eyed tree frog in West Java.

By @hendymp (Indonesia), Hendy MP/AGORA images

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#8

Echoes Of The Unknown

Echoes Of The Unknown

The photographer wanted to display the cordial relationship between a man and a beast.

By @theeastwoodexperience (Ghana), Clement Eastwood/AGORA images

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NanZ
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they became one. I get what the photographer is saying, but I cringed when they referred to the horse as a beast.

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#9

Alone In The Desert

Alone In The Desert

The shot was taken from a high dune in Merzouga, Morocco, where Nomads are seen moving through the Sahara desert.
By @carlesalonsophotography (Spain), Carles Alonso/AGORA images

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#10

Run And Fun

Run And Fun

Young monks having fun at the Hsinbyume Pagoda.

By @lingling25 (Myanmar), Ling Ling/AGORA images

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#11

Colors Of Life

Colors Of Life

Women fishing in West Bengal before heading to the market.

By @pranab_basak (India), Pranab Basak/AGORA images

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#12

Under The Light Making Batik Crafts

Under The Light Making Batik Crafts

Batik making in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth. The lady pictured has been mastering this art for the past 35 years. With this picture, the photographer hopes to keep this tradition alive.
by @_bimo_ (Indonesia), Bimo Pradityo/AGORA images

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Rosie Hamilton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember learning how to do this at school - it's lovely fun and can leave you with beautiful fabric.

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#13

Rainbow Reine

Rainbow Reine

Double rainbow spotted as the photographer was crossing a bridge in the Lofoten Islands.

By @uglefisk (Norway), Paal Lund/AGORA images

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We get a lot of rainbows in FL. I saw one end in the water once. So lovely.

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#14

Reitdiephaven

Reitdiephaven

Long exposure sunset shot in the District in the city of Groningen, Netherlands

By @anskar (Germany), Anskar Lenzen/AGORA images

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#15

Sand Wasp With Prey

Sand Wasp With Prey

This wasp is on a mission to bring its prey home!

By @pokokemoto (Indonesia), Imam Primahardy/AGORA images

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Monika Soffronow
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a shot! But let me officially state that I am damn glad that wasps are not our size!

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#16

Veins Of Earth

Veins Of Earth

The Amazon-like shot was taken in East Sussex, where the Cuckmere river divides the grasslands.
By @hugohealy (UK), Hugo Healy/AGORA images

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#17

Motherly Love

Motherly Love

More than a 2-hour wait for this photographer to capture a tender moment between a chimpanzee and its infant at the Tenerife zoo.

By @santiagolopezfotografia, Santiago López/AGORA images

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#18

Wild Look

Wild Look

Lynx spotted in the Cábarceno Natural Park.
By @saavedraphotography (Spain), Sergio Saavedra/AGORA images

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Miranda Noble
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me: Here kitty kitty, come here kitty, let me hug you and love you foreverrrrrrrrrr Kitty: Mmmmm stupid huummaan.... snack time!!

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#19

Unknown

Unknown

Taking this shot without getting his lenses soaked was a hard exercise for this photographer in Tumpak Sewu Waterfall, East Java.

By @jprphotos (UK), Jonathan Rogers/AGORA images

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#20

Throwing Nets

Throwing Nets

Fisherman in action at the Situ Patenggang lake.
By @g13nnn (Indonesia), Glenn Valentino/AGORA images

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#21

Expressions

Expressions

Saint met in a Pakistani Shrine.

By @asimijaz (Pakistan), Asim Ijaz/AGORA images

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#22

Among The White Umbrellas

Among The White Umbrellas

Traditional umbrellas factory in Mandalay, Myanmar. The production of a traditional umbrella cannot be done by a single person or within a day: there is a division of labor in the making of a single umbrella. Each worker is responsible for different parts to finish one umbrella.

By @aungthuya (Myanmar), Aung ThuYa/AGORA images

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#23

Nature Always Wins

Nature Always Wins

Shipwreck graves in Brittany, France. Some boats have been there for more than 100 years.

By @charliieb (Monaco), Charlie Berthaume/AGORA images

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#24

Dark Disneyland

Dark Disneyland

Vertical panorama of the Neuschwanstein Castle.

By @tommimatz (Germany), Tommi Matz/AGORA images

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#25

Sea Of Ice

Sea Of Ice

The professional wildlife photographer took this photo in Antarctica, where crabeater seals like to rest on ice for a nap.

By @florianledoux (France), Florian Ledoux/AGORA images

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#26

The Most Beautiful Roundabout In The World

The Most Beautiful Roundabout In The World

Vertical panorama of Paris' Arc de Triomphe, where 12 avenues come together.
By @henrydo (USA), Henry Do/AGORA images

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ChickyChicky
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How are there no cars going around it? Did they change that since I've been to Paris?

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#27

Hearts On The Sea

Hearts On The Sea

Aerial photos of fishing nets in Vietnam.
By @phannguyen5285 (Vietnam), Nguyen Phan Xuan/AGORA images

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Full Name
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are badly, insanely badly overfishing and it's ruining the oceans but goddamn all these fishing pics are amazing.

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#28

Oeil De Zèbre

Oeil De Zèbre

Shot taken at the Madrid safari.

By @s.p.marin (Spain), Sara Pinto Marin/AGORA images

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#29

Diamond Ring Total Solar Eclipse

Diamond Ring Total Solar Eclipse

Snapshot of the 2017 total solar eclipse, pictured from Nebraska.

By @edoindo (USA), Edward Panjaitan/AGORA images

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Mary Rose Kent
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was foggy in my San Francisco neighborhood on the morning of the eclipse and all I saw was a brief, mild darkening

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#30

Dancer

Dancer

Taken at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Athens.

By @markellos (Greece), Markellos Plakitsis/AGORA images

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Monika Soffronow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this contained the sum total of the information an alien had on the human species, then how would the humans be described?!? ;-)

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#31

Snow Horseman

Snow Horseman

Winter in Mongolia.

By @zayyarlin (Myanmar), Zay Yar Lin/AGORA images

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Jacqui Cyrus
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lone horseman contrasting in red makes this an eye-catching photo.

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#32

La Mujer Que Espera

La Mujer Que Espera

Women waiting to be served in a salami shop in Rome, Piazza de la Rotonda.

By @paulaaranoa (Argentina), Paula Aranoa /AGORA images

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Monika Soffronow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The shop keeper gives me the feeling that if you ask for 100 grams of salami the scale will say 100. Not 99, and not 101. It will say 100. You cannot possibly become more professional.

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#33

Undefined

Undefined

Snapshot taken during a road trip in California, Todos Santos. The photographer was lucky to snorkel with the animals afterwards!
by @jordisark (Spain), Jordi Sark/AGORA images)

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#34

When The Buffalo Comes Back

When The Buffalo Comes Back

Buffalos bathing in Pleiku, Central Vietnam.
By @hoangquocvinh, Hoang Quocvinh/AGORA images

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#35

Water Is Life

Water Is Life

Although typhoons are pretty common in The Philippines, the citizens still worship the life-giving element of water.
by @froirivera (Philippines), Froi Rivera/AGORA images

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#36

In Retrospect

In Retrospect

Lonely man looking at the horizon in Kobe, Japan.

By @patriciasoon (Malaysia), Patricia Soon/AGORA images

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Kenny Kulbiski
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't see him as lonely, just a guy enjoying some rare solitude. I'm envious.

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#37

Eid Prayer

Eid Prayer

The Eid prayer is celebrated on the first day of the Islamic month of Shawwal, after the fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

By @azimronnie (Bangladesh), Azim Ronnie/AGORA images

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Cubcake
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The colors, and then realizing that each drop of color is a person at prayer, United. Beautiful.

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#38

Strawberry Greenhouses

Strawberry Greenhouses

Young women working in a strawberry field, located in the Aegean region of Turkey.

By @leylaemektar (Turkey), Leyla Emektar/AGORA images

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反社会的
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a tiny human walking through dead branches of bamboo.

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#39

Rain

Rain

Powerful portrait of the photographer's father under the rain.

By @wunderbilder (Germany), Perry Wunderlich/AGORA images

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#40

Farming

Farming

Shot of the rice fields in Northern Vietnam, where workers plant the rice seedlings for the upcoming harvest.

By @diepvan (Vietnam), Diep Van/AGORA images

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#41

Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under

Foggy morning in Ukraine, where the photographer spotted a man digging a grave with his bare hands in a little cemetery.

By @davidedziegler (Spain), David Carbonell/AGORA images

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F. H.
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To me it looks like he's using a shovel and probably a pick too, not his bare hands.

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#42

The Lights Of Life

The Lights Of Life

Early morning shot of the Cirahong Bridge, located on the border of Tasikmalaya Regency and Ciamis Regency. The bridge was built in 1893 by the Dutch colons.
By @dikyedarling (Indonesia), Dikye Ariani/AGORA images

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#43

Blue Eye

Blue Eye

The photographer pictured his son running through the City of Arts and Science, in Valencia.

By @ajuriaguerra (Spain), Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz/AGORA images

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#44

L’espurna Que Fa Que Tot Comenci

L’espurna Que Fa Que Tot Comenci

Correfocs during a traditional Catalan festival, where groups dressed as devils light fireworks in the crowd.

By @xopet1969 (Spain), Albert Castañe/AGORA images

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#45

Striving

Striving

The shot was taken near the Nias Islands, an internationally famous surfing destination.

By @bastian_as (Indonesia), Bastian AS/AGORA images

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#46

Preparing For 1000 Takjil Iftar Ramadan Kareem

Preparing For 1000 Takjil Iftar Ramadan Kareem

Three volunteers serve 1000 plates of chicken and rice prepared for the Iftar, an evening meal during which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset.

By @dharmaku (Indonesia), Dharma Kurniawan/AGORA images

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#47

Fire Fighter

Fire Fighter

Locals and firemen work as a team to fight a fire caused by a power incident in Bangladesh.

By @tanveer.rohan (Bangladesh), Tanveer Rohan/AGORA images

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Donald Stokes
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I helped to bring power to the people of Bangladesh. Look what they did with it! (joke).

#48

Out At Sea - Msc Orchestra

Out At Sea - Msc Orchestra

Entry from the contest's youngest finalist, a 18-year-old photographer from the Jersey Channel Islands. The cruise boat was visiting the harbor close to his hometown.

By @above_and_beyond_visuals (UK), Cameron Aird/AGORA images

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jevais
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hell on the seas. There should be an international law forbidding such ships. They are just a floating hazard waiting to happen.

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#49

The Road And The Farm Have Been Flooded

The Road And The Farm Have Been Flooded

Floods in Gorgan city, Northern Iran.
by @mohammadmoheimany (Iran), Mohammad Moheimani/AGORA images

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#50

Boys

Boys

With this shot, the photographer wanted to portray equality between two human beings.

By @diegocampomar (Uruguay), Diego Campomar/AGORA images

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