2010 National Geographic Photography Contest

2010 National Geographic Photography Contest
16,000 photographs submitted from 130 countries entered National Geographic Photographs Contest 2010.

Some favourites were extracted for publishing. Scroll down to view the winning photograph.


Unexpected danger in Kanana Camp , Botswana


Snow Weasel , Minnesota USA


Oia Santorini , Greece


Piraputanga fish in Sucuri river, Brazil


The Louvre, Paris


The Pyramids, Egypt


Al-Saleh Mosque, Yemen


Praying Mantis 


Thunderstorm in Montana , USA


A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Central, Hong Kong


Alone


River Bank in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province , China


Mountain fog


Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick

Heavy load - little fly on a small white flower

Great Blue Heron with fish

Suradita Village , West Java, Indonesia - children playing with their roosters

Peyto Lake , Alberta , Canada


Mount Everest climber


Warminster , England


Feeding Koi fish at Windows of the World, Shenzhen , China


Oasis


Bee, purple flower


Czech Republic


the Angolan Plateau


Buddhist Monastery of Ki, Himalayas

Grand Prize Winner of 2010
National Geographic Contest

Eruption of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia
Winning photo taken by Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore
Contest judge Joel Sartore said, "This image best represented the craft of photography.
Honourable Mention
Lion Lion in the Shadows