Ciudad Perdida

Founded much earlier than Machu Picchu, Lost City is located in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada.
This archaeological site is visited by tourists organized by local tribes and agencies, a pristine and difficult hiking through a river and steep climbs and descents.
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King of The Jungle

A lion can have sex about 100 times a day, like this couple living at Samburu National Reserve, a semi-desert park located in Samburu district in the Rift Valley, Kenya. Celso Bayo/ BayoPhoto

Isla de Taquile

Taquile is an island of Lake Titicaca, located between Bolivia and Peru. The inhabitants, known as Taquileños, are Southern Quechua speakers. It’s called Fiesta de San Santiago, when The Taquileños celebrates their roots with music and dance, every year from July 25th to August 5th.
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Ngorongoro

 

An old elephant looks tiny compared to the trees at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which is the only conservation area in Tanzania that protects wildlife while allowing human habitation. Demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from human settlement, has led to a dramatic decline in elephant population in the last decades in Africa. Celso Bayo / BayoPhoto

La Femme du Cambodge

A vendor wearing a traditional Cambodian scarf called kroma at a busy road intersection from Cambodia to Thailand.

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4th Annual Photography Masters Cup Portrait nominee: La Femme du Cambodge (Cambodia). Photography Masters Cup is the leading international award honoring color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers in a prestigious annual contest and globally webcast event. Last year’s Photo show attracted over 40,000 viewers from 154 countries who logged on live to see the Winners Gala. With a collective Jury of the world’s most recognized experts from National Geographic Channel to Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in New York, the Masters Cup is the industry’s most authoritative and important photographic event for color photography and brings to light the best work of the year as nominated by the esteemed international panel.

   

Amazonas

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil:
Different generations of Amazon natives traveling together in a common boat in this region, São Gabriel da Cachoeira is the last town in the Brazilian Amazon jungle border with Colombia.
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Crossed Eyes

A devoted believer at Yeamanjá Festival in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Photo: Celso Bayo

LOS ANGELES February 2013 – Celso Bayo of the USA was presented with the 6th Annual International Color Awards Nominee title in the category of People at a prestigious Nomination & Winners Photoshow. The live online ceremony webcast Saturday, February 16, 2013, was attended by photography fans in 86 countries who logged on to see the climax of the industry’s most important event for color photography. The awards international Jury included Phillips de Pury & Company in New York; Kunst Licht Gallery, Shanghai; XPO Gallery, Paris; Tasveer Galleries, India; BFN, Netherlands; to BBH in London who honored Color Masters with 239 coveted title awards in 18 categories.