Earth at its Most Beautiful : Admired By National Geographic Photo Contest (2012)
This is the time when the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest has reached to its full enthusiasm. Half of the competition has finished but still enough time to participate in the competition before the November 30, 2012. From across the whole Earth more than 20,000 entries from 130 countries were submitted in last year’s competition by the photographers whether skilled or unskilled.
A panel of experts in the photography will judge the photographs on the basis of their creativity and photographic quality. There are three categories: People, Places and Nature in each of which there is a first place winner and a grand prizewinner as well. Following are the images sampled for the competition for each of the three categories, their caption information was given by the individual photographer: – Paula Nelson
1. DANCE (People) – A wonderful picture clicked in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London when a female dancer rehearcing her movements for a performance. (Photo and caption by Tom Radenz/National Geographic Photo Contest)
2. ADRIFT (Nature) – It is the picture clicked after a heavy snow storm in when the penguins were undirected and lost their way to home. (Photo and Caption by Joshua Holko/National Geographic Photo Contest)
3. REFLECTING VANCOUVER (Places) – The photographer tucked by viewing the wonderful reflection of the nearby buildings in the glass of the Convention Center while strolling near the city district in Vancouver. (Photo and caption by Martha Katko/National Geographic Photo Contest)
4. GLACIER (Places) – This picture is giving a vivacious as present in some other world like heaven… ((Photo and caption by Rafael Urrutia/National Geographic Photo Contest)
5. AN EXPEDITION AMUNDSEN (People) - The group in the picture attempted to cross the Greenland using the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen, who used this path to prepare for his South Pole expedition in 1911. Amundsen was not able to cross the plateau and had to turn back due to bad weather. But this time it was organized in the form of a race that brings in the contestants to the Hardangervidda Mountainplateu, Norway.
The participants will race 100km across the plateau and will follow exactly the same route, still followed by the explorers today. The effort to cross Hardangervidda was just as life-threatening and difficult as capturing the South Pole as said allegedly by Roald Amundsen. (Photo and caption by Kai-Otto Melau/National Geographic Photo Contest)
6. CRATER LAKE STORM AT SUNSET (Places) – This photograph was captured from Rim Village, about 1,000 feet above the lake’s surface, catering a straight-on vantage point of the storm. This wonderful picture is clicked when a setting sun creating a rare double rainbow and a thunderstorm whirling across the water at Crater Lake National Park. (Photo and caption by Duke Miller /National Geographic Photo Contest)
7. HEAVENLY VIEW (Places) – The photographer is immersed in taking photo from the top of Mt.Yangbaeksan, South Korea, amazed by the Sea of clouds that enshrouded the city giving it an outstanding marvelous view. (Photo and caption by Sungjin Kim/National Geographic Photo Contest)
8. ENDEAVOUR FLIES OVER GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY (Places) – This is the picture of the last journey of the Space Shuttle Endeavour before forwarding to Los Angeles International Airport where it will be readied to be directed to its final destination at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles. It flied over Griffith Park Observatory and the Hollywood Sign. (Photo and caption by Axelle Woussen/National Geographic Photo Contest)
9. PELICAN, WALVIS BAY, NAMIBIA (Nature) – It was a wonderful moment of a marine sail in Walvis Bay, Namibia. This is the picture of pelican that snaffled a bite thrown from the boat clicked at that particular moment. I think back of viewing dolphins, seals, moles, cormorants, and got the favor of picturing them. (Photo and caption by Romulo Rejon/National Geographic Photo Contest)
10. CITY BIRDS (Places) – A spot shot of the birds resting on the wires and skyscrapers with a foggy back drop gathered my attention while I was sauntering through business district San Francisco during our vacation. (Photo and caption by Matthias Luetolf/National Geographic Photo Contest)
11. SWEET DREAMER (People) – A beautiful lady taking siesta in a quiet afternoon of a Thai restaurant. (Photo and caption by Adrian Konopnicki/National Geographic Photo Contest)
12. HANGING LIFE (People) - I saw this kid dangling along with a hanging bag with his mother while she was taking the air on the streets of Chennai. (Photo and caption by Sudharshun Gopalan/National Geographic Photo Contest
13. PREDATION UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (Nature) -I undergo amazingly when millions of fish that were moving in synchrony due to the occurrence of predation besieged me. (Photo and caption by Fransisca Harlijanto/National Geographic Photo Contest)
14. HOME ALONE (Nature) – An amazing picture clicked at a breeding site on a Sri Lankan island off northwestern seas. The picture is of an offspring, a lonely chick, amongst the adult Great Crested Terns which was captured from a prone position, with a wide-angle lens. (Photo and caption by Lalith Ekanayake/National Geographic Photo Contest)
15. GREAT WHITE, SUN LIGHT (Nature) – This picture was clicked right after when I released a breath through my respirator, sitting on the top of a submergible frozen cage, 30 feet below the surface, meanwhile a 15 foot Great White Shark passed overhead blocking out the sun. (Photo and caption by Kirk Nielsen/National Geographic Photo Contest)
16. LOST SOUL (Nature) - A male Humpback whale carcass reaches ashore, at Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches which was died during its annual migration. (Photo and caption by Jack Murphy/National Geographic Photo Contest)
17. LONELY HUT (Places) –A photograph of a lonely hut and a burnt farm in northern Thailand, which was thrashed badly. (Photo and caption by Pattavee Kaewnoo/National Geographic Photo Contest)
18. MARIA AND RAUL (People) –The wonderful couple Raul and Maria was married in the year of the revolution, 1959. Central Havana is the apartment where they have spent a large part of their lives. They both live caring for each other as Raul is now blind and Marie spends much of her time looking after him. This is a late afternoon time when Marie is taking a nap while Raul is waiting for her to wake up while sitting in his rocking chair. (Photo and caption by David Creedon/National Geographic Photo Contest)
19. SNOW IN ROME (Places) – A very creative click on an unusual snowstorm night when Piazza Navona was tucked into it. (Photo and caption by luigi vaccarella/National Geographic Photo Contest)
20. NATURE’S ART (Nature) – Creates the most convoluted patterns formed by dried up delta of the Kimberly region, N.W. Australia was praised by the contest. (Photo and caption by Ted Grambeau/National Geographic Photo Contest)
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