You don't always need a fancy camera to take a stunning picture. All you need is a photographer's eye. You just need to be able to see beauty in your subject. The winning pictures from the tenth annual iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAwards) are proof. Thousands of people participated from across the world, submitting their best clicks from their iPhones. Photojournalist Sebastiano Tomada was the Grand Prize Winner of the Photographer of the Year, with his picture “Children of Qayyarah”.

The caption reads: “Children roam the streets in Qayyarah near the fire and smoke billowing from oil wells, set ablaze by ISIS militants.”

Here are few of the most stunning pictures from the contest:

1. Winning the first place for Photographer of the Year was Brendan O Se with his photo of a dockworker's hands in Jakarta. With its detailed lines and clarity, it's unbelievable that it was shot through an iPhone 6s!

© Sebastiano Tomada_IPPA

2. Titled ‘The America I Know', this one by Maria K. Pianu from Italy was shot at Coney Island in New York. If a single picture could sum up the idea of the American Dream, this would be it.

© Maria K. Pianu_IPPA

3. This vertigo-inducing shot by Chung Hung from Tapei looks straight from a Kafka novel.

© Chung Hung_IPPA

4. This one, shot by Zarni Myo Win, is as trippy as a Van Gogh painting

© Zarni Myo Win_IPPA

5. It's incredible how a picture can be so simple and yet loaded with so much meaning.

© Dina Alfasi_IPPA

6. Titled ‘Children's Curiosity' by Szymon Felkel from Edinburgh, this one is a naughty

© Szymon Felkel_IPPA

7. Is it a tree, is it a winding road?

© Dyllon Wolf_IPPA

8. With its striking clean colours, this one's our personal favourite. Looks like the photographer Joshua Sarinana, who is also a neuroscientist, knows what appeals to the human eye.

© Joshua Sarinana_IPPA

9. Winter is coming.

© Magali Chesnel _ IPPA

10. Pure emotion in this one by Gabriel Ribeiro from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

© Gabriel Ribeiro_IPPA