GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Travel Tales challenge

GuruShots - Travel Tales 2025
(Image credit: Susana Belenkova - United States)

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 Tales Challenge, we wanted you to show us your most epic captures from your favourite destinations and take us on a visual journey around the world. There's so much of our world to explore, and whether it's land or sea, we want to see it! (sorry).

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: Bruno Ribeiro - Portugal)
Top Photo (Image credit: Yair Tzur - Israel)
Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: NomadicGuy - Bulgaria)
#4 (Image credit: Phil Green - United Kingdom)
#5 (Image credit: Michael Shmidt - Israel)
#6 (Image credit: Valdis Kundziņš - Latvia)
#7 (Image credit: Saurav Dutta - Germany)
#8 (Image credit: Ingūna Šķestere - Germany)
#9 (Image credit: Tom Kleczewski - Netherlands)
#10 (Image credit: Stephen Jones - United Kingdom)
#11 (Image credit: Jamil Badalov - Azerbaijan)
#12 (Image credit: Bryony Herrod-Taylor - United Kingdom)
#13 (Image credit: Beata S.J. - Poland)
#14 (Image credit: Anna Pe - Great Britain (UK))
#15 (Image credit: BOGDAN MOCANU - Romania)
#16 (Image credit: Zennifer I Travellers - United States)
#17 (Image credit: Tesha Cox - United States)
#18 (Image credit: Debbie Garella - United States)
#19 (Image credit: PNW Sasquatch - United States)
#20 (Image credit: Dan Riegler - Canada)
#21 (Image credit: Susana Belenkova - United States)
#22 (Image credit: Nataly Gureeva - United States)
#23 (Image credit: Andrew Hitrov - Russia)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Travel Tales 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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