Behold the possibilities of what could happen when you take your iPhone out of your pocket to make a picture.
Below is the ultimate camera roll, the first place award-winning pictures from the 11th iPhone Photography Awards, announced today in New York City.
Thousands of entries were whittled down to first, second and third place winners in 18 categories.
The Grand Prize Winner and Photographer of the Year went to Jashim Salam of Bangladesh, whose picture, “Displaced,” shows Rohingya children watching a film in a refugee camp. Salam made the picture with an iPhone 7.
But the camera – in this case, the model – doesn’t matter. The vision of each photograph does.
Still, it’s worth noting that many winning pictures were produced with older models, including two with the iPhone 5s.
Here are the first place pictures in each category. With many, the captions are personal accounts from the photographers. To view all of the winning pictures visit the IPPA website.
Photographer of the Year
Abstract
Animals
Architecture
Children
Floral
Landscape
Lifestyle
Nature
News/Events
Other
Panorama
People
Portrait
Still Life
Sunset
Travel
Trees
U.S. photographer Cocu Liu won first place for Series with pictures entirely Urban Impressionism but pictures were not available from IPPA.
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