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Travel Photo of the Year finalist gallery: Active adventures caught on camera

Look up, look down, look all around… Get in on the action with these 10 active photos that have been shortlisted to the final round of the Wanderlust Photo of the Year competition

Team Wanderlust
26 December 2017
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‘Cucu’ photographed in Toronto, Canada (Giovanni Frescura)

‘Welcome to Scotland’ in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland (Alexander Metcalfe)

‘Abrivado’ photographed in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Camargue, France (Philip Marazzi)

Ratha Yatra Festival at Rikabi Bazar Point, Sylhet, Bangladesh (Md Rafayat Haque Khan)

Walking at dusk Millennium Bridge, London, UK (Peter Karry)

Hill bathed in light, Lake District, UK (Ruta Mackelaite)

‘Relax and there will be no blood’ photographed in the Ural Mountains, Russia (Rokas Juozapavicius)

‘Solo kayak’ through Soca Valley, Triglav National Park, Slovenia (Rachael Tailford)

‘The fire dance’ captured near Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea (Bret Charman)

‘Birds at sea’ off Andenes, Vesteralen, Norway (Barry Chapman)

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