Sony World Photography Awards 2015

Morning Hour: A white fallow deer standing in the morning mist on an early morning in Eifel National Park, Germany. The photographer hardly dared to move (Georg May, Germany, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

With just over a month remaining for photographers to enter the contest, the Sony World Photography Awards has revealed some of the submissions for the 2015 competition.

They are truly breathtaking.

Step by step: Ralf Wendrich has submitted his image of a staircase in Berlin, shot from beneath it is reduced to ‘the essential’. (Ralf Wendrich, Germany, Entry, Architecture, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! (Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

The trace of an ancient glacier: Denali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. What used to be glaciers are now white and blue rocks that contrasts with red, yellow, orange and green tundra of this vast natural paradise (Miquel Ãngel Artús Illana, Spain, Entry, Travel Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

Dinner Time: The mother and the cub are Spirit Bears. These bears are rarer than the Panda Bear in the wild. This could be only the 2nd time a white mother and cub has been documented. (Kyle Breckenridge, Canada, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

In a crowd of King Penguins: This image aims to capture and reflect how gracious and colourful Wildlife can be even at the ends of the Earth (Lisa Vaz, Portugal, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)

Blaak: Cube houses are a set of innovative houses built in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom. They represents a village within a city, where each house is a tree, and all the houses together are a forest. (Cor Boers, Netherlands, Entry, Architecture Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards)