
Grand Prize Winner


Joshua Vest
Joshua Vest, 35, is a member of NAS Whidbey Island’s search-and-rescue team, and enjoys taking photos of the surrounding Washington State area. He takes most of his photos from the air.
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Military Winners


Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey, 49, is from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has been photographing aircraft for about 38 years. He usually works in and around Ireland and the U.K., and is currently part of the Apron Media team.


Johannes Heyn
Johannes Heyn is an aircraft mechanic from Eilenburg, Germany, who turned his hobby of photography and postproduction into a career. His connection to aviation and specifically helicopters was established during the time he served with the Air Transport Group of Helicopter Wing 64 at Holzdorf Air Base.


Utah Jack
Utah Eheler (also known as Utah Jack) lives on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. He is an avid outdoorsman and a five-year standing member of Chilliwack Search and Rescue. He has a passion for photography and enjoys capturing aviation-related rescues.
Beauty Winners


Julien Sollberger
Julien Sollberger is a freelance action sports photographer based in Geneva, Switzerland, between the French and Swiss Alps.For the past three years he has spent a lot of time photographing skydivers and helicopters with Chamonix Mont-Blanc Hélicoptères and Mont-Blanc Skydive. For him, flying and shooting in the Mont-Blanc massif is living a dream.


Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler, 41, lives in Australia’s capital – Canberra. Awarded as the country’s aviation photographer of the year in 2014 by the National Aviation Press Club, Paul has been capturing images of helicopters for more than 25 years and currently works as a freelance photographer and writer.


Evan Welsch
Fifteen years of lighting concert stages and skiing in the winter months is a tough life to give up. An opportunity to wrench on helicopters was the only thing convincing enough for Evan Welsch. He says he is green to the industry via an A&P ticket and even greener via camera, but working in the utility helicopter world has given him some unique points of view — and ample opportunity to shoot photos.
At Work Winners


Tom Østrem
Tom Andreas Østrem, 33, is a helicopter pilot in scenic Norway, where he lives his childhood dream and shares it with the rest of the world through social media. As well as being a pilot, he works on another passion — flight safety. “The most important thing after all is getting safely home to my beautiful little family every time,” he says.


Larry Hamill
Larry Hamill has had the privilege of photographing MedFlight helicopters for over 20 years. His has taken shots of the operator across Ohio, in all seasons and weather conditions.


Robert Niederwolfsgruber
Robert lives in a small village in the westernmost part of Austria. In the winter, he works in a ski resort, and in the summer he is a scaffolder. He has been taking photos for nine years, during which time it has become his passion — though he describes himself as “only a hobby photographer.” Helicopters and landscapes are his favorite subjects, and his biggest dream is to perform an air-to-air shoot.
Readers Choice Winner


Chris Blanton
Originally from California, Chris Blanton works in the New York area as a helicopter pilot for NYONair, specializing in aerial photography and cinematography. He enjoys amateur photography and shoots with his iPhone whenever something catches his eye.
Honourable Mentions
Photo By: Andreas Eder
Photo By: Andrzej Rogucki
Photo By: Andrzej Rogucki
Photo By: Andrzej Rogucki
Photo By: Andrzej Rutkowski
Photo By: Bartosz Bera
Photo By: Brad Legare
Photo By: Bryan Hamilton
Photo By: Chi Yin Liao
Photo By: Domenico Marchi
Photo By: Francois Charest
Photo By: Fred Benoit
Photo By: Garin Klinker
Photo By: Garin Klinker
Photo By: Jean Francois Dupont
Photo By: Lloyd Horgan
Photo By: Lloyd Horgan
Photo By: Marianne Gjertsen
Photo By: Matthew Melsness
Photo By: Ognyan Stefanov
Photo By: Pascal Van Uffelen
Photo By: Pascal Van Uffelen
Photo By: Phil Carpenter
Photo By: Ray U
Photo By: Richard Chapuis
Photo By: Rino Zigerlig
Photo By: Robert Niederwolfsgruber
Photo By: Sebastian Diernaz
Photo By: Tomas Kika
Photo By: Tomas Kika
Photo By: Tomas Kika