A couple of weeks ago, we featured 10 superb pictures, entries in the 2013 National Geographic Photography Contest which is running until Saturday, November 30 (11:59 pm Eastern Time). Here are 10 more submissions.
The featured image above (and below) is by Bonny Fleming/National Geographic Photo Contest.
Robins gather waiting on a cool March morning in the Black Hills of Dakota.
Photographers from around the world have submitted their work in the three-category competition (people, places and nature).
The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 (a not-to-be-sniffed-at £6,178) and a trip to the National Geographic headquarters in Washington DC.
And the winning photographs in each of the three categories will be published in National Geographic magazine.
An over/under water split level image of beautiful crimson red waratah anemones in a rock pool at low tide.
What I really love about over/under photographs is that it gives the underwater element a sense of place. For the viewer it marries the underwater environment with our own familiar world.
It links the unknown with the known.
In the lands of the north-western Vietnam, between the narrow mountainous areas between China and Laos, we find the tribes of the various ethnic groups, ranging from the colorful Hmong (or Miao), the Tay, the second-largest population, with Lu.
The first source of livelihood for these ancient people is agriculture: tradition has it that everything is done according to the lunar cycles.
The markets are full of goods, from animals to textiles, handicrafts entirely handmade. Unfortunately, the old values of these centenarian tribes are giving way to new western tradition.
A large red deer stag calling to the hinds in the bracken one misty autumn morning.
I was waiting for my flight to Seoul, South Korea, and then I saw these two women sleeping on the benches in the waiting area. Nobody near them seemed to be paying attention though! I can’t see their face but I want to know if they are twins or not.
They have identical dresses, body shapes, and even hair. Why are they holding hands? To make sure they do not get separated from each other? It is really interesting and entertaining to see this scene.
A Little Owl (R) defends its feeding position from a Great spotted woodpecker (L) with both birds showing a their full colours with dramatic full wing extensions.
Aerial view of the Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa.
I was commuting in the train at Tokyo, when suddenly I notice this young girl working as a conductor, announcing our next station stop at Shinagawa station.
The reflection in the glass inside the train and a slow shutter speed to blur the moving background add to a creative moments to the photo including the light ambient to the girl face find me interest to frame the scene that will last only for a second.
The photo was taken in Eminˆn Square which one of the largest squares in Istanbul. There are two images reflected from the bus glass. One of them is a boy who distributes bread to groceries; the other one is historical Ottoman mosque.
This is a souvenir photo that couldn’t be encountered in all the time.
In the last 10 years, mobile data, smart phones and social networks have forever changed our existence. Although this woman stood at the centre of a jam-packed train, but the warm glow from her phone tells the strangers around her that she’s not really here.
She managed to slip away from here, for a short moment, she’s a node flickering on the social web, roaming the earth, free as a butterfly.
Our existence is no longer stuck to the physical here, we’re free to run away, and run we will. Photo was taken on a 5 min. Capt. Nemo ride connecting two playgrounds in Ocean Park in Hong Kong.
