GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Travel Stories challenge

GuruShots - Travel Stories July 2025
(Image credit: Tomas Donauskas - Lithuania)

One of the greatest photo games you will ever play, GuruShots is a super fun and competitive online platform (and app) that provides photographers with not only a place to showcase their images, but a chance to gain unmatched global exposure for their work and bag themselves some prizes and bragging rights in the process.

There's no harm in a little friendly competition, and Gurushots will allow you to compete in epic challenges and daily battles against millions of photographers worldwide. You can even become part of a team and take on other groups while sharing skills and connecting with other photographers.

The idea of the game is to gradually increase your ranking from a Newbie to a Master, and then finally achieve the ultimate status of becoming a Guru. There are opportunities for your work to be exhibited in a physical gallery, published in magazines, and of course - be featured here on Digital Camera World too.

With the latest Travel Stories Challenge, we wanted you to take us on a visual journey around the world, as you hit the road and embark on a travel adventure like no other. Capturing the beauty of your favourite destinations is a luxury not all photographers have access to, but for those who do, you should never take it for granted. We're excited to see what you can bring to this challenge.

It's fascinating to see how other photographers might interpret a photo theme differently from you. The idea of the timed challenges is to enter images that not only fit the brief but are also unique and might give you enough of an edge to earn a Guru Pick from the creator of the challenge and votes from other players.

Winners can get the chance to receive prizes from GuruShots' sponsors, such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro, and Lensbaby. The highest-ranked images from this challenge will be published in Practical Motorhome Magazine, and we're pleased to showcase these images below, along with the rest of the top-featured photographs in the gallery that follows.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Michael Firmbach - Germany)

Top Photo (Image credit: Galioto Nikol - Italy)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Snapping LINDEMANS KRIEK - Portugal)

#4 (Image credit: Bosinet - Germany)

#5 (Image credit: Tomas Donauskas - Lithuania)

#6 (Image credit: Lynn Shelton - United States)

#7 (Image credit: Laimute Kuriene - Netherlands)

#8 (Image credit: Sean Mason-Farmer - United Kingdom)

#9 (Image credit: Fred Kowalo - United States)

#10 (Image credit: Deborah SquierBernst - Canada)

#11 (Image credit: Tarsis Emmerick - Brazil)

#12 (Image credit: Zennifer I Travellers - United States)

#13 (Image credit: ZollernLens - Germany)

#14 (Image credit: Tamás Faller - Hungary)

#15 (Image credit: Izabella Hamar - Croatia (Hrvatska))

#16 (Image credit: Roy Egloff - Switzerland)

#17 (Image credit: Benjamin Ridgeway - United States)

#18 (Image credit: Ruth Glines - United States)

#19 (Image credit: Stephen Jones - United Kingdom)

#20 (Image credit: Hyuntae Kim - United States)

#21 (Image credit: A Marie McCracken - United States)

#22 (Image credit: The Yellow Cat - Germany)

#23 (Image credit: Jamil Badalov - Azerbaijan)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Travel Stories contest – Click on the arrows to scroll through the full gallery of entries.

To find out more about GuruShots, and to sign up and take part in the next exciting challenge, visit www.gurushots.com.

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