Photo Award Finalists 2017-2018 Part 2
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Travel Photo Award.
Here are 14 more of our 28 finalists. See the first 14 here.
Winners will be announced in September 2018. Our 2018 photo award is now open!
Big Chief in New Orleans
Some Days Are Simply Meant For Playing in Uganda
A Magical Land in the Real World in Portugal
Glacial Valley in the USA
Calm Waters in Norway
The Sacred Mountains in Bhutan
The Fiji Heaven
Sunset in the Okavango Delta
“Indonesian Basket Ball”
Standing at a Giants Doorstep in Australia
The Horse in the Carpathians
The Swarm at Beartooth Lake, Wyoming
The Majestic Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi
Finalists from the 2017 Photo Award: Part 1 and Part 2

Lisa Ellen Niver
Lisa Niver is an award-winning author, travel journalist and international speaker who has explored 102 countries on all seven continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.
On her award-winning global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded five Southern California Journalism Awards and four National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist thirty-five times.
Named a top travel influencer, Niver talks travel on broadcast television, her YouTube channel with over 2.5 million views, and in her award-winning memoir, Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.