Top snaps from the Aerial Photographer of the Year Awards

Watch the bird: Azim Khan Ronnie took home the coveted title with a photograph showing thousands of migratory Siberian gulls feeding in India’s Yamuna Ghat.

Horsepower: Kah-Wai Lin’s third row photo of Yılki horses moving across the dusty plateau at sunset in Cappadocia, Türkiye

The photo of the year was awarded to Vitaly Golovatyuk’s photo in which he captured a bird sitting in the water of a clear lake reflecting the sky, surrounded by red grass, in Dongtai, China.

Chin Leong Teo caught a fisherman’s yellow net, which opened over the water and wrapped around his small boat

See you ice: A polar bear balancing on the edge of an iceberg in East Greenland, captured by Rhiannon Lawler, uses altitude to scan sea ice and test the wind

Diablo Mountain Range in California, at its greenest after the winter rains, with smooth lines and flowing patterns, captured by Chengming Liu

Barbara Brown’s aerial photograph of the Salt Works at Walvis Bay, Namibia

Photograph of Sanghamitra Sarkar shows a gathering of Hindu pilgrims carrying sacred shoes, seated in a circular formation around a central palanquin

Sharp, steep, layered hills in Utah’s Badlands by AJ Rich

Bali’s rice terraces flow down hillsides in vibrant green strides, shaped by centuries of careful irrigation by Chin Leong Teo

By Azim Khan Ronnie Hindu devotees gathered in Dhaka fast and pray with incense and oil lamps

Thousands of bright red chillies are harvested in the hot sun before being prepared for delivery by Azim Khan Ronnie to spice companies in Sariakandi, Bogura, Bangladesh

A lone person crossing a traffic intersection in central Tokyo by Chin Leong Teo

Aerial photo of the Park Royal Hotel in Singapore by Chin Leong Teo