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See the final nominees and winner of our August competition on Saturday, and come back on Monday for September competition details

Smugshots special: bonus galleries

Six new entries in our Bolivia salt plains gallery, plus many more smug slideshows worldwide

Signs of the times 2008

We're reached the end of the trail to find the funniest travel signs - here's the winning gallery, the 30 finalists and 86 featured

Charles Olver from Bristol caputured this extremely sunny silhouette on Fuertaventura, the Canary Islands

Your smugshots

View Monday's winner and a gallery of the best entries this week

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Scooter, Madrid

PHotoEspana festival, Madrid

The Times Travel Picture Editor introduces his gallery from the Spanish Capital

Ana Paula Paiva and Fernando Martinho's South American adventure: Machu Pichu, Peru, 2007

Latin American adventures with baby

Photographers Ana Paula Paiva and Fernando Martinho backpacked with their baby son Joao for almost a year

Kumbh Mela: the largest pilgrimage

The latest one drew 70 million pilgrims. Photographer Karoki Lewis was in India to capture it

Awestruck in Antarctica

Gareth Jenkins travelled the world: we have a gallery of his breathtaking pictures from the Antarctic

travel and photography

Male leopard portrait, Samburu National Park, Kenya

How to shoot a leopard - with a lens

On a photographic safari, you get closer to the wild heart of Africa, finds Chris Haslam in Kenya

Derwent Water on an early November morning by John Tisbury

Picture perfect in Cumbria

The Times picture editor found tuition helped on a weekend course - until disaster struck

DOUG MCKINLAY'S WORKSHOPS

Ask the expert: Shutter speeds

Travel photography expert Doug McKinlay on using shutter speeds to achieve different effects

Travel Girl

Don't stop till you Photoshop

Get the most out of your images with a guide to the most important functions on Photoshop

Compact camera reviews

Our travel photography consultant always carries a handy compact. Here he reviews three new ones from Leica, Samsung and Canon

best of the best

The 10 best travel photo galleries of 2007

award winners

Sami girl running on the snow, Finnmark Plateau, northern Norway. Cat Vinton, UK. Overall winner, TPOTY 2007

Travel Photographer of the Year - the winners

Winners of the 2007 TPOTY have been announced - we have a gallery of winning images

My son and sunset, Brighton, East Sussex, England

Landscape Photographer of the Year

A gallery of all the winners in the 2007 awards, and details of the book and exhibition that feature all of the best entries

Meet the professionals

The Mahamastakabisheka Festival, India

The key to a winning shot?

Karoki Lewis, category winner in Travel Photographer of the Year, reveals the answers

The fortress at Qalat-i Gird, Iran. Built 13th century AD, photographed 1977. © Georg Gerster / Panos 2006

History from the air at the British Museum

Georg Gerster's aerial photography of historic sights from around the world

Behind the pictures: Debbie Rowe

Police mounted on water buffalo is just one of the unusual images captured by professional photographer Debbie Rowe

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Charles Olver from Bristol caputured this extremely sunny silhouette on Fuertaventura, the Canary Islands

Summer smugshots

View a weekly gallery of your smashingly smug travel photos and find out the winner Smugs special: best of 2008

An image that I took during a performance at the Club Tropicana, Havana, Cuba

Times travel comp

The third gallery in our August competition is up - the winner will be published on Saturday

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Signs of the times '07

View the 12 signs you voted the funniest from your entries

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