While drone technology remains a contentious issue in the modern world, the flying devices addition to the world of photography cannot be denied. The winners have just been announced for the annual Dronestagram competition, a festival which honours the aerial photoshoot, with this year’s winners coming from a very competitive pool of more than 5,000 entries.

Dronestagram 2015 was judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of photographic experts, including National Geographic’s Pulitzer Prize-winner Ken Geiger, the editor-in-chief of National Geographic France Jean-Pierre Vrignaud, and members of the Dronestagram team.

The winners, which you can see in the gallery below, raise the bar on what the amateur and professional photographer can achieve with the increasingly prevalent drone. Check out the image here: