16,000 Photographs submitted from 130 countries entered. Some favorites were extracted for publishing. Scroll down to view the Winning Photograph.

Unexpected danger in Kanana Camp, Botswana


Snow Weasel, Minnesota USA

Oia Santorini, Greece
Piraputanga fish in Sucuri river, Brazil
The Louvre, Paris
The Pyramids, Egypt
Al-Saleh Mosque, Yemen
Praying Mantis
Thunderstorm in Montana, USA
A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Central, Hong Kong
Alone
River Bank in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province, China
Mountain fog
Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick
Heavy load - little fly on a small white flower
Great Blue Heron with fish
Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia - children playing with their roosters
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada
Mount Everest climber
Warminster, England
Feeding Koi fish at Windows of the World, Shenzhen, China
Oasis
Bee, purple flower
Czech Republic
the Angolan Plateau

Buddhist Monastery of Ki, Himalayas

Grand Prize Winner of 2010 National Geographic Contest
Eruption of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia. Winning photo taken by Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore. Contest judge Joel Sartore said, “This image best represented the craft of photography.