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Sienna International Photo Awards: 20 photos to take your breath away

Pinterest screenshots via Boredpanda.com/Lorraine Turci/Amos Nachoum/Edit: Laliste.net

8 Run! by Christoph Kaula

An animal that is in a hurry…

9/ Flight

Is this snowy owl protecting itself from the flashes of the camera with it’s wing? A hasty flight after hearing the call from a fellow owl.

10/ Fortune Road by Sian Koi Kua

In Vietnam, red is the colour associated with luck and happiness. These tiny boxes of red straws are in fact incense sticks.

11/ Arctic Fox

A photo taken in situ on the snowy plains of Alaska. What has it seen to want to lick it’s lips!

12/ Beware of the step

A group of emperor penguins meet next to a crack in an iceberg, in the Ross Sea.

13/ Contact, by Alla Sokolova

When one species meets another…

14/ An underwater view of Lofoten in winter, by Сергей Луканкин

The islands of Lofoten are a small Norwegian archipelago located in the Arctic circle. This under-water photo took the Remarkable Prize in the category Beauty of Nature.