Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 – winning images

Overall winner – Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 Images of life in Tiébélé, the painted village of the Gurunsi people in southern Burkina Faso
Photograph: Louis Montrose, TPOTY

Overall winner – Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 Oaxaca, Mexico. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This strange and compelling holiday – both celebrating and mocking death and focused on communion with dead loved ones – seems to encapsulate the rich and conflicting traditions of Mexican culture
Photograph: Louis Montrose, TPOTY

Winner – Best Single Image in a Spirit of Adventure portfolio White Sea, Karelia region, northern Russia. A curious and playful beluga whale swims near a scuba diver under the broken ice
Photograph: Franco Banfi, TPOTY

Winner – Spirit of Adventure portfolio category Lake Sassolo, Ticino, Switzerland. Scuba diver inspects an iceberg in this Alpine lake. These ice structures can roll and turn upside down in seconds
Photograph: Franco Banfi, TPOTY

Winner – Best Single Image in the Exotic portfolio category: Tongi/northern border of Dhaka/Bangladesh. During the Muslim congregation, local residents arrived at and left the congregation by train. They climbed to top of the train and squeezed into every space they could find
Photograph: Yeow Kwang Yeo, TPOTY

Winner – Best Single Image in a Cultures and Traditions portfolio: Tribal dancer, Bafut, Cameroon
Photograph: Philip Lee Harvey, TPOTY

Winner – Cultures and Traditions portfolio In Yamal, Russia, some 14,000 nomadic people live together with their deer herds
Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, TPOTY

Winner – Cultures and Traditions portfolio A herdsman in Yamal, Russia
Photograph: Sergey Anisimov, TPOTY

Highly Commended – Natural Elements portfolio A group of kiang (Tibetan wild donkeys) running free through the Himalayan plains around Paryang, west Tibet
Photograph: Matjaz Krivic, TPOTY

Commended – Exotic portfolio Street market in Bundi, Rajasthan, India
Photograph: Simon Morris, TPOTY

Winner – Exotic portfolio Man in a white coat walking past a woman on a London street
Photograph: Malgorzata Pioro, TPOTY

Winner – One Shot Wild Moments (single image category) Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
Photograph: Stuart Dunn, TPOTY

Runner-up – Young TPOTY 15-18 ‘Green’ Manuel Antonio national park, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica. A green tree snake emerging from the safety of the trees
Photograph: Tom Spence, TPOTY

Winner – Young TPOTY 14 and Under 'Green' Mountain pass overlooking winding road in Ireland
Photograph: Seamus Crowley, TPOTY