Special mention, best single image in a portfolio: Ly Hoang Long

Man transporting bamboo fishing baskets, Tat Vien village, Hung Yen Province, Vietnam

Commended, one shot, a moment in light category: Gunar Streu

Hoarfrost-covered cabin at dusk, with northern lights in the background, at Dundret nature reserve, Swedish Lapland

Special mention, best single image in a portfolio, faces, people, encounters: Rafal Ziejewski

A young Dassanech girl, in Omorate, Ethiopia

Commended, One Shot, colours of the world category: Maria de la Guardia

Afghan women in their new training centre in Fayzabad, Badakhshan, where they can harvest and sell saffron and vegetables, including these pickled varieties

Commended, One Shot, a moment in light category: Cai Zhiping

Horses on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China.

Commended, One Shot, water category: Joel Santos

Salt miner taking a camel caravan to the mining site, Afar region, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia

Commended, One Shot, colours of the world category:Zhou Jianyong

People enjoying a crowded swimming pool, Sichuan, China

Runner-up, people and culture portfolio: Timothy Allen

Kazakh wedding season in the Altai mountains. Allen is a British photographer best -known for his work with indigenous people

Young Travel Photographer of the Year: Chase Guttman

Basuto tribal leader and local shepherds in Semonkong, Lesotho. Guttman, 18, was first spotted by TPOTY in 2010 in the 14-and-under age group, then again in 2012, when he won the Emerging Talent award.

Overall winner, Travel photographer of the Year: Marsel van Oosten

Cypress trees on a misty morning on one of the countless bayous of the Atchafalaya basin, Louisiana, the largest US wetland. Oosten is a professional nature photographer from the Netherlands and a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. The judges said his photographs were “elegant, beautifully composed and showed wonderful use of light”.