National Geographic just revealed the winners of its first 'Pictures of the Year' contest. Skip the drumroll and see the photographs here.
The six-month lava flow that covered the surrounding landscape in hard black rock was"an exhibition of the raw and awesome power of nature," said Riten Dharia, who photographed the scene on the Reykjanes Peninsula.In this photograph, a nomadic Kazakh eagle hunter on horseback prepares his golden eagle for a hunt in Bayan-Olgii, Mongolia, where training eagles to hunt is a 3000-year tradition, according to Nat Geo.
Rhez Solano photographed this crowd of king penguins on the beaches of Gold Harbour on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.The island hosts king penguins along with gentoo penguins and elephant seals. Roughly half of the island is covered in ice, and there is no permanent human population living on it,Freelance photographer Tihomir Trichkov said he took this shot while headed home from the airport early one morning in October.Tihomir TrichkovThe scene depicts"the little slice of heaven that I live in," Trichkov said of his home in Highlands, North Carolina.This photo depicts the night sky reflected in the waters of Tipsoo Lake in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
"The night sky was unusually clear, and the Milky Way could be seen just above the mountain," he said.A lone salt miner uses a wooden rake to extract salt from a hillside at Peru's Salt Mines of Maras in this photograph captured by An Li.The mines comprise around 4,500 salt wells, each of which produces some 400 pounds of salt per month. Families who own the wells continue the tradition of salt extraction that dates back to the Inca Empire.
The goal of the"Picture of the Year" contest is to provide aspiring photographers the"same spotlight," according to Nat Geo.
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