National Geographic Photo Contest Winners

[Shadowman]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...photograp.html

A lot of good entries, I especially liked the lightning strikes.

[Donald]

Amazing images. Just amazing. We can all look and learn.

John - Thanks for pointing us towards this.

[mythlady]

Wow. Thanks for sharing these. While they are all amazing, I find #35 (the cock fighters) particularly arresting -- the light, the perfectly stopped action -- among a group of perfect photos, that one stood out for me.

[RockNGoalStar]

Awesome... simply awesome!

[MiniChris]

The big storm cell was awesome, but I have to agree with Elise, the kids playing with their roosters is almost 3D. I love it.

[Sam Smith]

Cool. I liked the lighting shots the best.

[Dave Humphries]

Great stuff.

Quite a few are 'right place at right time' sort of shots, but even so, getting the shot in those circumstances still takes skill and no doubt for many the photographer increased their chances of capture by use of background knowledge gained in observation, few look posed, although the aforementioned #35 possibly is one.

Fascinating reading about them too.

[Pohled]

Really amazing! Shadowman, thank you for sharing.

After seeing this we have two optins:
A) Okay, I'll never do it. I resign, I'll only take smiley pictures of me, friends and family from now on.
B) Hard work, hard work, I can do it! You can do it! Yes, we can. Ops, sorry, I'm not sure if political propaganda is allowed =D

[Fit]

Awesome; thank for posting this.

The quality of #3, the bee photo isn't great but the CONCEPT is brilliant. We're beekeepers and I've seen hundreds of photos and never seen one from the bottom-up perspective.

[Shadowman]

Really amazing! Shadowman, thank you for sharing.

After seeing this we have two optins:
A) Okay, I'll never do it. I resign, I'll only take smiley pictures of me, friends and family from now on.
B) Hard work, hard work, I can do it! You can do it! Yes, we can. Ops, sorry, I'm not sure if political propaganda is allowed =D

I vow to keep trying!

[kunyukireng]

wow awesome...
thank you for sharing !

[Bannacht]

Mesmerizing, in a word.

[arith]

Some good ones in there. The portraits, eg foreign legion are especially good.

[vsuprak]

To someone like me who's just started with experimenting photography, these images are truly mind opening.
Thanks a lot for sharing

[Nuno]

For me, I choose picture #9 - A wrinkle in time. It is definitely one the best!

When looking at all of them, I feel very, very small.

Thanks for the info!