An autumn landscape shot in Romania was one of the winning photos of the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2015.

Romanian photographer Eduard Gutescu took this picture near Bran, a mountain region in the center of Romania. He named his photo Romania, land of fairy tales.

Gutescu’s photo was one of the top 10 best pictures out of a total of 17,000 entries in this year’s competition.

An underwater photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale taken by Anuar Patjane Floriuk of Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, has won the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest grand prize. See all the winning pictures here.

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(Photo source: National Geographic Traveller, Photo by Eduard Gutescu)