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Smithsonian
magazine's 22nd Annual Photo Contest
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2012 Winners
2012 Winners
Grand Prize
Mummy, I am down here, and hungry!
Bjorn Olesen
#malaysia
Readers' Choice
The Milky Way Galaxy Exploding from Mount Rainier.
David Morrow
#meteor
#mountains
#night
#sky
#stars
#united states
#washington
Natural World
An onlooker witnesses the annular solar eclipse as the sun sets on May 20, 2012.
Colleen Pinski
#eclipse
#light
#moon
#new mexico
#solar
#sun
#united states
Travel
A lone hiker viewed the path before him as the Milky Way rose in the night Sky. The towering Hoodoos stood high casting an immense silence in the canyon below.
Jason Hatfield
#canyon
#hoodoos
#night
#stars
#united states
#utah
People
One of small churches in Nazareth. The girls are possible from the priest family.
Ilan Fain
#church
#girl
#israel
The American Experience
Annual Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City, Montana
George Burgin
#horse
#montana
#united states
Altered Images
I never had sisters, but if I did this is what believe would happen. Hectic mornings as a woman.
Brittney Callahan
#bathroom
#home
#interesting
#ohio
#reflection
#united states
#women
Mobile
Finalists
NATURAL WORLD
Neal Piper
Breading Penguins in Antarctica
#antarctica
#cold
#penguin
#winter
Don Holland
A pair of bald eagles share a meal near Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee.
#eagle
#meal
#tennessee
#united states
David Morrow
The Milky Way Galaxy Exploding from Mount Rainier.
#meteor
#mountains
#night
#sky
#stars
#united states
#washington
Nathan Carlsen
A water pipe in Duluth is "bled" every year to ensure it doesn't freeze. As the water freezes, it builds this amazing ice geiser, and looks like this if you stuff LED lights down it.
#blue
#cold
#ice
#light
#minnesota
#night
#united states
Bjorn Olesen
Mummy, I am down here, and hungry!
#malaysia
Phillip Pilkington
Baby Owl in studio
#baby
#fluffy
#owl
#studio
#united kingdom
Vanessa Bartlett
Visiting the Bronx Zoo, NYC
#congo
#gorilla
#monkey
#new york
#united states
#zoo
Colin Hutton
Antheraea polyphemus caterpillar striking a rather devious looking pose
#caterpillar
#north carolina
#united states
Colleen Pinski
An onlooker witnesses the annular solar eclipse as the sun sets on May 20, 2012.
#eclipse
#light
#moon
#new mexico
#solar
#sun
#united states
Eko Adiyanto
The ants holding and hanging different plants' seeds
#animal
#ant
#green
#indonesia
#nature
#plant
#wildlife
TRAVEL
Jason Hatfield
A lone hiker viewed the path before him as the Milky Way rose in the night Sky. The towering Hoodoos stood high casting an immense silence in the canyon below.
#canyon
#hoodoos
#night
#stars
#united states
#utah
Bob Bush
Lone Acacia, Sossusvlei Sand Dunes
#africa
#namibia
#sand dunes
Han Tha
Took this photo when I was in Bagan with my daughter in January, 2011. ( My camera shows the US time as I bought it from US and forgot to change it. )
#hill
#mist
#myanmar
#pagoda
#tree
Giang Hai Hoang
I came here in the colorful afternoon. The sun is going down, preparing hide under far away mountain peaks. The people was harvesting salt by traditional way. This is a such hard work job.
#agriculture
#asia
#field
#reflection
#salt
#sunset
#vietnam
Daniel Nahabedian
Monks releasing lanterns during Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
#buddhist
#lantern
#monks
#thailand
Teng Hin Khoo
River Ferry
#china
#ferry
#river
#sunrise
Haithinh Hoang
July every year, in the Bacson Valley (provincial town Bacson Langson) started nine rice, here alternating plots together to create a great scene.To take this picture we took 3 hours to climb to the t
#grain
#rice
#vietnam
Indranil Sengupta
"Puli Kali"- In the annual festival"Onam",held in Kerala,India,this event marked the driving away the evil spirit from society."Puli" means tiger and "Kali" means dance in malayalam language.Hundreds
#dance
#festival
#india
#tiger
Kiet Anh Vo
Rice terraces close to harvest season.
#terrace
#vietnam
Raul Linares
Musicians. Thy arrived at the bullring almost before anyone to catch their places in the tribune.
#ecuador
#music
#numbers
#quito
#stair
PEOPLE
Paolo Patruno
Christine, 20 years old, with her first child few months old
#africa
#congo
#maternity
#pregnancy
Abhijit Dey
day end of a barber an evening at city.
#barber
#city
#end
#evening
#india
#shop
#west bengal
Piers Calvert
Guardians of the Forest - Yucuna indians, deep in the Colombian Amazon, dressed in their traditional suits for the Baile del Mueco, or Puppet Dance, in which they celebrate the abundance of the chonta
#amazon
#colombia
#india
#indigenous
#jungle
#tribe
Alamsyah Rauf
Taken in Indonesia,farmers are harvesting salt
#indonesia
Alamsyah Rauf
A farmer was drying rice in the hot sunlight helps drying of agricultural products,when the harvest season comes the farmers are ready to harvest results were later dried rice paddyunder the sun so th
#farmer
#harvest
#indonesia
Raihan Parvez
This day laborer works at a chemical drum recycling plant. All he has to do is to carry 15 kg drums and pile them up at the plant. It is a very risky job and a tiresome one with a very small pay.
#bangladesh
#dhaka
Olivier Boƫls
Policemen run across the National Congress in Braslia during demonstration against corruption.
#brazil
#demonstration
#police
Ilan Fain
One of small churches in Nazareth. The girls are possible from the priest family.
#church
#girl
#israel
Selwane Evodia Melamu
Rasta Daughter
#south africa
Md. Uddin
Worshiper at Charak Puja in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. 2012
#bangladesh
#devotion
#people
#worship
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Ron Henderson
apple guy on location in desert
#desert
#texas
#united states
Winston Hicks
Hopper/Rockwell Scene, New York City
#bar
#new york
#night
#united states
Ron Henderson
eating peach ice cream in the summer
#bench
#boy
#ice cream
#summer
#texas
#united states
David Egan
Liquor Store
#america
#california
#landscape
#light
#night
#sunset
#united states
Doug Van De Zande
Night time at Times Square, NYC
#flag
#new york
#reflection
#united states
Kelly Berry
McKinney, TX Snow Cone Stand at dusk
#texas
#united states
Jenny Braun
Grandpa's Helper - The guys were sweeping the grain bin & my nephew Kyle insisted he wanted to go in to 'help'! So my dad took him and and he 'worked' sweeping with a shovel under grandpa's watchful e
#child
#family
#farm
#generations
#minnesota
#united states
Javier Arcenillas
BLUES ROUTE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CHICAGO, THE ATMOSPHERE AND GREAT CHARACTERS AS THE BB KING CITY GIVEN TO AIR A VERY IDENTIFIABLE AND FILM MUSIC
#chicago
#illinois
#music
#street
#united states
Cleat Walters Iii
Kitchen in abandoned home in Bodie, CA. Nikon D200, Tokina 12-24mm lens
#abandoned
#california
#ghost town
#kitchen
#mining
#united states
George Burgin
Annual Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City, Montana
#horse
#montana
#united states
ALTERED IMAGES
Garret Suhrie
Il Duomo di Firenze.
#italy
Katarzyna Widmanska
from series Cyberfashion, models: Kamil Pawilk, Aleksa Materska, costumes Lidia Sajdak, makeup Monika Halat
#fashion
#model
#poland
Violet Kashi
Chasing Shadows
#black and white
#city
#israel
#pavement
#people
#shadow
#street
Sonya Kanelstrand
A whimsical house from 19th century Norway that my inspiration set in the burning clouds of a fiery sunset. You can try entering that house and see what it is to live in the clouds.
#clouds
#fantasy
#heaven
#house
#norway
#orange
#surreal
Skip Hunt
"To Serve and Protect" ~ New York City composite 2012 Skip Hunt
#architecture
#new york
#police
#street
#united states
#watch
Michal Baran
Grey smoke hair
#ireland
Hiep Nguyen
The last pollen spore preparing to leave a ladybird trying to hold on, because it didn't want to be alone
#bug
#flower
#ladybug
#macro
#nature
#umbrella
#vietnam
Timothy Wright
Awesome power of an Iowa Tornado.
#iowa
#tornado
#united states
Brittney Callahan
I never had sisters, but if I did this is what believe would happen. Hectic mornings as a woman.
#bathroom
#home
#interesting
#ohio
#reflection
#united states
#women
Pramod Shakya
2011/9/19 Amazing view of all these wires at this under construction floor in xi'an city,china
#building
#china
#wires
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