Best shots from Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year

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Wanderlust's Travel Photo of the Year award celebrates the very best in travel photography, inviting professionals and amateurs to share incredible shots of lives and landscapes taken in all four corners of the world.

Amateur photographers compete in four categories – wildlife, landscape, people and icon – with each category winner receiving a trip to Thailand for a "photography commission of a lifetime", sponsored by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

Winning entries include shots of a traditional celebration in the Peruvian Andes and a colourful take on one of the most photographed buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal.

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For a fifth category - portfolio - amateurs and professionals are invited to submit a collection of photos around a theme of their choice. The winner gets a £3,000 cash prize, while runners-up receive a Nikon D3400 camera kit.

This year's winning portfolio was submitted by Northern Irish professional photographer Trevor Cole and explores life in a desert salt-mining community in the Afar Triangle region of Ethiopia.

The collection by runner-up Andy Skillen, also a professional photographer, is literally the polar opposite, following a family of bears on Canada's Baffin Island.

Take a look at the winners and runners-up from this year's contest in the gallery.