Those sunset snaps of yours might come in handy HERE, kids, but they won’t win you this award.

The Mobile Photography Awards began in 2011 and, given the progress technology makes annually, it’s fair to say the quality of the entries has improved year on year.

Let’s kick off with 2016’s overall winner. Giles Clarke, a photojournalist from New York, captured this image of a Kurdish Peshmerga soldier in Iraq.

Incredible. If he hadn’t used a Boss Model.

Here are another five of our personal faves:

Katrina Stewart from Scotland, won the Transport photo award

Not bad. Pity about the marks on top of that hill to the right.

Geoff Cunningham, from New Hampshire, won the Macro and Details category with Leaf Creeper.

Creepy.

Zarni Myo Win won his second award of the competition for Novice Is Thinking Something – topping the Portrait category. The photograph depicts a young Buddhist monk in his deeply religious home of Myanmar.

Pensive. It would be good if it wasn’t so obviously shot at one of those Muizenberg beach huts.

Lastly, this one by Margarita Iskandarova, with the very original entitled ‘born to be wild’ image of some wild horses.

Stunning. Although very obviously super-imposed.

Click here for a whole bunch of the other winners.

[source:dailymail]