See the finalists in our 2023 Post-Dispatch Travel Photo Contest
We narrowed down our list of travel photos from 2023 entries, from over 400 submitted. Here are our favorites. Find out who won in Sunday's Post-Dispatch.聽
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Goats at Zion National Park, Utah. Photo by James De Long
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Right time, right place for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Photo by Will Connolly
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A booby takes flight over water in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Photo by John Gravlin
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Black Church of Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland. Photo by Harper Ackermann
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Incense bundles drying out in the sun in Quang Phu Cau village in Vietnam. Photo by Jeff Hirsch
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Hore Abbey Ruins at Cashel, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. Photo by Joe Harrison
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Woman and Child in Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam. Photo by聽Anne Kelsey
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Morning Light in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Elizabeth McCarthy
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Olare Motorogi Conservancy Kenya. Photo by Jim Scott.
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Tranquility on Banff, Canada (Lake Louise) Photo by Sarah Oliver
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Thinking monkey in Riviera Maya, Cancun Photo by Eileen Smith
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Mudflats of Vestrahorn in Iceland. Photo by Ingrid Borecki
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Battle Creek, Alaska
Photo by Michael Albers
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Heavy fog can't stop surfers at Long Beach in the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Photo by Arlue Briggs
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Lightning in the fields in Gothenburg, Nebraska Photo by Elliana Newman
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Idaho Night Sky in Priest Lake, Idaho. Photo by Zachary Carroll
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Aspens in the Snow along the snowmobile trail in the Uinta National Forest, Heber City, UT. Photo by Michael Van Vooren
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Rainstorm approaches in Gobi desert, Mongolia. Photo by Carol Sosa
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Ominous clouds in Knob Lick, MO. Photo by Lucas Munzlinger
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Buffalo in geyser mist at Yellowstone. Photo by Dan Vogel
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Flying over the Exuma cays in the Bahamas. Photo by Kathy Steinke