Every class , Smithsonian Magazinelaunches aphoto contestculling the most awing images from a orb ’s worth of submissions . Here are our ten favorites from the puddle of finalists .
Photograph by Graham McGeorge ( Jacksonville , Florida ) . FINALIST : instinctive globe
McGeorge expend a tranquil 6 hours trying to get the perfect image of this eastern screech owl out of its nest . ( Okefenokee Swamp , Georgia , April 2013 , Canon 1D Mark III )
Photograph by Christopher Doherty ( North Palm Beach , Florida ) . FINALIST : Natural humans
Breath at sunset , captures a sea turtle at a dive situation shout Black Rock . ( Kāʻanapali , Hawaiʻi , August 2013 , Nikon D7000 )
shoot by Ken Lee ( Lake Balboa , California ) . FINALIST : travelling |VOTE FOR THE READERS ’ CHOICE victor
Ricardo Breceda ’s carving garden . Lee wait for a moonless dark to capture the Milky Way , and he light painted the carving to “ conjure up a sort of 1950s sci - fi picture flavor , with two nuclear creatures doing struggle under the stars . ” ( Borrego Springs , California , August 2013 , Nikon D7000 )
Photograph by Nidal Adnan Kibria ( Dhaka , Bangladesh ) . FINALIST : Travel
activity Hero . As part of a show called “ Well of decease , ” a biker performs a stunt at a small town fair to fete Rath Jatra , a Hindu festival.(Dhamrai , Bangladesh , June 2012 , Lumix FZ 100 )
snap by Candy Feng ( Starkville , Mississippi ) . FINALIST : the great unwashed
Feng ’s Word is dwarf by the looming majesty of a glacier at Fjallsárlón . “ I stand there for a while , contemplating and admiring . I require to remember that moment forever , ” articulate Feng . ( Fjallsárlón Glacier , Iceland , June 2013 , Canon 40D )
snap by Mark Kaplan ( Carrollton , Texas ) . FINALIST : Americana
rubble whirl around citizens of Black Rock City as they glance into the “ Black Rock Bijou Theatre , ” an artistic production installation at the 2013 Burning Man fete . ( Black Rock City , Nevada , August 2013 , Nikon D7100 )
Photograph by Carol Lynne Fowler ( Seeley Lake , Montana ) . FINALIST : Americana
A champion bronco buck a champion rider at the Helmville Rodeo . ( Helmville , Montana , September 2013 , Canon 5D Mark III )
Photograph by Nicolas Reusens ( Madrid , Spain ) . FINALIST : Altered ikon
A reddened - eyed tree frog underwater . ( El Arenal , Costa Rica , March 2013 , Canon 5D Mark III )
Photograph by Michael Frank ( Rochester , New York ) . FINALIST : Altered paradigm
Frank says what strike him most about this image of the abandoned Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church is , “ the sensory faculty of stillness . A stillness distinguish by expectancy , not unlike the stillness felt in a theatre between acts . ” ( Detroit , Michigan , October 2013 , Canon 7D )
you’re able to view the balance of the finalists , and vote on the Reader ’s Choice winnerhere !
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