Judges' Special Mention, Encounters: Daisy Gilardini, Switzerland. I was in Canada's Wapusk National Park on a huge Tundra Buggy. It was a really moody day, cold and overcast. The bears love this kind of weather conditions and seem to be much more active than on bright sunny days. We slowly approached these two young males, which were totally focused on sparring.

Runner-up, Encounters portfolio: Jordi Cohen Colldeforns, Spain. Fete Gede, the Feast of the Dead, is a time when Haiti's Vodouisants celebrate the ancestral dead who walk with them all their lives.

Runner-up, Amazing Places portfolio: Timothy Allen, UK. Pa-aling is a controversial method of net fishing practiced in the Philippines around the islands of Cebu and Palawan. Last year I travelled to Palawan with a BBC film crew to document this incredibly dangerous practice for Human Planet. We spent a week at sea with two pa aling boats, with men diving approximately three times every day. Groups of men dive to the ocean floor and set up a large purse-shaped net at the side of a reef, then arrange themselves in a line acting as a human barrier on the other side of the reef. The men then march slowly over the reef towards the net corralling all sea life into the jaws of the net.