Travel Photographer of the Year: 6 Winning Images

Travel photography usually falls into two camps. There's the stuff most of us capture on holiday (you on a sun lounger; you grinning next to a famous landmark; Facebook-friendly pictures of your latest meal), and then there's proper travel photography.

The sublime assortment you see here falls, naturally enough, into the latter category. All of these images are currently being displayed as part of the Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London.

If you're inspired by the pictures below (or think you have something to equal them), you have until 1 October to enter this year's competition. Click here to find out how. 

"Les Sapeurs" in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia

Honey gatherer in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal

 Wayuu woman in La Guajira, Colombia

Polar bear in Svalbard, Norway

Chuch of St George, Lalibela, Ethiopia

If you want to see more like this, get yourself along to the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London - the exhibition is open until 5 September, 2015. Admission is free.