2016 iPhone Photography Award Winners Prove Again Amazing Photos Can Be Taken Without Expensive Camera

Think that you need a fancy camera to take a good picture? EHHH WRONG! Turns out an iPhone is enough to shock people with your sick photography skills, and the winners from the 2016 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) can prove so.

Just recently, the 9th Annual IPPAWARDS ended, and the winners have been announced. From simple landscape photos to photos of adorable animals - all of them are absolutely amazing. Take a look for yourselves below.

If you enjoyed this article and would like to see more great photos taken with an iPhone, check out the winners of the 2014 IPPAWARDS.

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Erica Wu From San Francisco Ca, United States, 1st Place, Animals

Final score:

328points

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Amanda Panda 8 years ago

They all look like they are smiling! :3

20points

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Fugen Xiao From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Travel

Final score:

313points

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EA Whorton 8 years ago

Beautiful light

11points

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Yongmei Wang From Chongqing, China, 2nd Place, Sunset

Final score:

286points

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Wayne Beesley 8 years ago

Great photo

3points

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Siyuan Niu From Xinjiang, China, Grand Prize Winner

Final score:

245points

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get in 8 years ago

Nice shot

3points

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Junbiao Cai From Guangdong, China, 3rd Place, Animals

Final score:

203points

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Rob LeBlanc 8 years ago

If you defocus your eyes, it looks like many black and white people holding hands. :)

38points

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Jian Wang From Beijing, China, 1st Place, Architecture

Final score:

188points

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Varsha Chrislin 8 years ago

Simple...but the perfect timing!

2points

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Shiyang Han From Beijing, China, 3rd Place, Travel

Final score:

188points

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Miranda Miranda 8 years ago

Like lego land

5points

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Xia Zhenkai From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, People

Final score:

176points

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EA Whorton 8 years ago

Val Jean-ish. Beautiful

4points

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Robin Robertis From Carlsbad Ca, United States, 2nd Place

Final score:

161points

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Paco F. 8 years ago

Reminds me of the cover of Depeche Mode's album 'A Broken Frame' by Brian Griffin

9points

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Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature

Final score:

142points

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Pedro Lopes 8 years ago

This is Lisbon... :)

9points

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Lone Bjorn From Zurich, Switzerland, 1st Place, Flowers

Final score:

105points

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Tran Huong 8 years ago

Gorgeous <3

0points

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Victor Kintanar From Cebu City, Philippines, 1st Place, Trees

Final score:

96points

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Julie Hoffman 8 years ago

Stunning photo winner from the iPhone 6 awards. Category: trees

0points

#13

Jinsong Hu From Kunming, China, 3rd Place, Abstract

Final score:

88points

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Trina Risos 8 years ago

Lighting is everything.

1point

#14

Nazaret Sanchez Rodriquez From Tarragona, Spain, 2nd Place, Landscape

Final score:

83points

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Eva Pištejová 8 years ago

This is Trollstigen, Norway. Probably guy what took a photo is from Spain:)

5points

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Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature

Final score:

78points

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Limin Huang 8 years ago

Junfeng sure travels alot! So nice!

1point

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Nick Ryan From Sydney, Australia, 1st Place, Sunset

Final score:

56points

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Pip Winchester 8 years ago

Some where near Coogee,

0points

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Rithwik V.j From Tamil Nadu, India, 3rd Place, Lifestyle

Final score:

51points

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Gane Lee 8 years ago

Wow.how to join?

1point

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Andrew Montgomery From Hampton Wick, United Kingdom, 1st Place, Food

Final score:

48points

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Rob LeBlanc 8 years ago

This was the best food pic? :/

18points

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K.k From Changsha, China, 1st Place, Children

Final score:

45points

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Kaye Bata 8 years ago

There's a category just for children?

0points

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Elaine Taylor From United Kingdom, 1st Place, Portrait

Final score:

42points

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Trina Risos 8 years ago

The tilt shift is strong with this one.

3points

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Wen Qi From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Still Life

Final score:

40points

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Jay Umphres 8 years ago

Lovely composition.

1point

#22

Yuki Cheung From Hong Kong, 1st Place, Lifestyle

Final score:

34points

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Vanessa 8 years ago

this pics makes me wonders if they strike a pose, or if it's an instant shot. I really like it for being weird ^^

3points

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Patryk Kuleta From Warsaw, Poland, 1st Place, Photographer Of The Year

Final score:

30points

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Paul Morrin 8 years ago

may shed some light if you check out instagram : https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/modern_cathedrals/

5points

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Carolyn Mara Borlenghi From Florida, United States, 3rd Place, Photographer Of The Year

Final score:

25points

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Vanessa 8 years ago

well.. it's the only one I don't like in this top

11points

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What do you think ?

c smith 8 years ago

These are wonderful, but the iphone is hundreds and hundreds of dollars, how is that not an expensive camera?

Catalina Ioan 8 years ago

I think the point was that great photography can be done regardless of equipment, and these awards value talent in composition, a good eye, etc., over strict image quality given by expensive lenses. Also, to be fair, the iPhone may be expensive, but the camera in it is not (in terms of quality), it's still a phone camera (even if it's a decent one at that).

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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 8 years ago

Well, when was the last time you could call, text or surf the internet on a camera?

Cynthia McBride 8 years ago

Well, really, an I-phone does way more than a camera. You can spend several thousand for a good camera and all you're going to get is good quality pictures. Spend several hundred for a phone and you get a tool with hundreds of apps.

Glynis Lailann 8 years ago

I once took a photo with an old Blackberry phone and sent it to National Geographic - a rainbow coming from a mountain to the sea which was shot on the drive between Rooi Els and Gordon's Bay, South Africa. Every now and then I still get comments on it.

Like $800.00, I agree

Most of these are using a filter of some kind, its pretty obvious. I have an iphone and you don't get the majority of those effects without some kind of filter or editing. Great pics though.

Levente Krisztián Büte 8 years ago

Photographers edit their picture, so it's not a big deal. Sometimes you need some extra contrast to make the pictures more alive or to enforce what you want to express with the final piece. However the point of this post is that you should know how to take pictures even if you have a potato (thirds, golden ratio, etc). The basics of composing are important everywhere, so the editing is not that important, but sometimes cropping helps for example.

6points

Natalie Blenkhorn 8 years ago

A lot of these would be great pictures regardless of the camera

7points

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2016 iPhone Photography Award Winners Prove Again Amazing Photos Can Be Taken Without Expensive Camera

Erica Wu From San Francisco Ca, United States, 1st Place, Animals

Fugen Xiao From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Travel

Yongmei Wang From Chongqing, China, 2nd Place, Sunset

Siyuan Niu From Xinjiang, China, Grand Prize Winner

Junbiao Cai From Guangdong, China, 3rd Place, Animals

Jian Wang From Beijing, China, 1st Place, Architecture

Shiyang Han From Beijing, China, 3rd Place, Travel

Xia Zhenkai From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, People

Robin Robertis From Carlsbad Ca, United States, 2nd Place

Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature

Lone Bjorn From Zurich, Switzerland, 1st Place, Flowers

Victor Kintanar From Cebu City, Philippines, 1st Place, Trees

Jinsong Hu From Kunming, China, 3rd Place, Abstract

Nazaret Sanchez Rodriquez From Tarragona, Spain, 2nd Place, Landscape

Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature

Nick Ryan From Sydney, Australia, 1st Place, Sunset

Rithwik V.j From Tamil Nadu, India, 3rd Place, Lifestyle

Andrew Montgomery From Hampton Wick, United Kingdom, 1st Place, Food

K.k From Changsha, China, 1st Place, Children

Elaine Taylor From United Kingdom, 1st Place, Portrait

Wen Qi From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Still Life

Yuki Cheung From Hong Kong, 1st Place, Lifestyle

Patryk Kuleta From Warsaw, Poland, 1st Place, Photographer Of The Year

Carolyn Mara Borlenghi From Florida, United States, 3rd Place, Photographer Of The Year

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