The Top 50 Action and Sports Photographs from Around the World

The Top 50 Action and Sports Photographs from Around the World

Since 2007, Red Bull has hosted an international action and adventure sport photography contest called Red Bull Illume. It's where fifty winners are chosen every three three years from tens of thousands of photographers around the world. The winners were unveiled at a grand ceremony in Hong Kong on August 29, 2013.

Each year there are ten categories, this years were lifestyle by Leica, playground, energy, spirit, close up, wings, sequence, new creativity, experimental, illumination.  The photos are sure to give you not only a deep jealousy of the amazing places but also a slight heart attack at some of the things the subjects are participating in. While some of the names might not be recognizable, we've featured Chris Burkard here before with an awesome in depth view at surfing photography which may or may not include drunk boat captains.

 

 

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Category Finalist 2013: Spirit
Photographer: Chris Burkard
Athlete: Keith Malloy, Dane Gudauskas
Location: Unstad, Lofoten Islands, Norway

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Category Finalist 2013: Spirit
Photographer: Stuart Gibson
Athlete: Sean Woolnough
Location: Namotu Island, Fiji

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Category Finalist 2013: Experimental
Photographer: Florian Breitenberger
Athlete: Xavier "Sherwy" Pasamonte
Location: Wildkogel, Austria

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Category Finalist 2013: New Creativity
Photographer: Daniel Vojtech
Athlete: Tomas Slavik
Location: Prague, Czech Republic

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Category Finalist 2013: New Creativity
Photographer: Juan Cruz Rabaglia
Athlete: Leonardo Cuny Proverbio
Location: Glaciar Perito Moreno, Patagonia, Argentina

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Category Finalist 2013: Wings
Photographer: Dimitrios Kontizas
Athlete: Hubert Schober, Kedley Oliveti
Location: Zakynthos, Greece

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Category Finalist 2013: Illumination
Photographer: Ryan Taylor
Athlete: Ben Horan
Location: Manitowish Waters, WI, USA

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Category Finalist 2013: Energy
Photographer: David Carlier
Athlete: Gary Edgeworth
Location: Lower Mesa Falls, ID, USA

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Category Finalist 2013: New Creativity
Photographer: Jussi Grznar
Athlete: Anto Chamberland
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
The work that goes into the making of some of these images is spectacular, so be sure to check out the awesome behind the scenes video we posted from the 2010 contest.  Be sure to view all the winners and their images here: Red Bull Illume 

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Sarah Williams is a award winning photographer in San Diego, CA. She specializes in photography for rad people and brands such as Airstream U.S.A. She has a deep love for flamingos and tattoos. If you want to know more, she's pretty honest on instagram, so check her out.

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6 Comments

Pure awesomeness.

How Tim Kemple's kayak/waterfall shot didn't make this is beyond me!!

He did make top 250 though. I'd guess if he had a wider shot they would have picked it up for top 50

Juan Cruz Rabaglia's image makes me go there !

so cool!

No HDR'd bullshit, FTW!
Just beautiful imagery.