The Big Picture competition: Readers' top travel photos, August 11, 2017

  • While in Spain, I was lucky to catch a "recortes" (bull leaping) competition. The recortadores compete at dodging and leaping over a bull without the use of a cape or sword, allowing the bull to leave the ring unscathed. The speed and agility of the recortadores was amazing to watch, as you can see by this photo of one of them doing a complete back-flip over the bull. Photo: Liesel Koelmeyer
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  • Central bankers are operating at the frontiers of monetary policy. Photo: Caroline Hermes
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  • THE KARO TRIBE ARE AN INDIGENOUS TRIBE OF THE OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA AND USE RED OCHRE AND WHITE CHALK TO CREATE INTRICATE BODY DESIGNS. I USED A FISHEYE LENS AND FILL FLASH TO CREATE THIS GROUP PORTRAIT. Photo: ANTHONY LAWRENCE
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  • We traveled through the French countryside during June and came across Notre- Dame De Senanque, an abbey and community of Cistern monks. Its beautiful Romanesque architecture is further enhanced in June and July by the blooming lavender fields that grow right up to the doors of the abbey.A truly wonderful place to visit. Photo: Edward Rogowski
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  • Taken on holiday in the high Austrian Alps in December 2015 with my Nikon D810 with 28-70mm F2.8 lens in a temperature of zero degrees.  Photo: Richard Shakenovsky
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  • Liesel K | liesel_koelmeyer@hotmail.com 4:24am, 7th August, '17 While in Chamonix, France, we took the Montenvers Train to Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in France, and had a lovely lunch overlooking the glacier - a truly memorable experience. Photo: Liesel Koelmeyer
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  • Temple St night market in Hong Kong is a crazy, frenetic row of stall after colourful stall. Wanting to get a perspective of it's real scale, I climbed up a nearby parking lot to capture the length of the market with it's colourful rooves. It seems to stretch forever in a riot of colour!  Photo: Luke David
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  • 89 years of age but still laughing at the silly man behind the camera.  Photo: Adrian Whear
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  • Liesel K | liesel_koelmeyer@hotmail.com 4:16am, 7th August, '17 While in Spain, I was lucky to catch a "recortes" (bull leaping) competition. The recortadores compete at dodging and leaping over a bull without the use of a cape or sword, allowing the bull to leave the ring unscathed. The speed and agility of the recortadores was amazing to watch, as you can see by this photo of one of them doing a complete back-flip over the bull. Photo: Liesel Koelmeyer
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  • A Molokan or “Milk Drinkers” village in the northern Armenian Caucasus. A pacifist Christian sect, marrying only within the community, here building no churches and drinking no alcohol (hence the name) they were exiled to this place from Russia as heretics in 1833 and remain as a small, poor community in a beautiful but challenging landscape almost two centuries later.  Photo: Peter Willadsen
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  • Melissani Lake Cave, Kefalonia island Greece. June 2017, the best month of the year to go, warm and less tourists means more time to see more. The cave was peaceful and bigger than you initially see. Photo: Christina Edgar
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  • Mindil Beach Sunset: People stand and watch in awe as the golden sun sinks into the Ocean ! One of the highlights of Darwin is seeing one of these ! Photo: Tatiana Podmore
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  • Its well worth while arriving early to see the Taj Mahal glowing in soft morning light. You'll avoid the crowds too but it may leave you weary. Photo: Peter Waters
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  • Opera House lit up during the Vivid light festival.  Photo: Paul Bilcich
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  • Driving through the Italian Alps offers plenty of amazing vistas and photo opportunities, like this one. A small village church perched high on a hill with the (still in June) snow capped mountains in the distance. Photo: Edward Rogowski
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