National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009

[MattSh]

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a few of their entries from 2009 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 25 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (25 photos total)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/national_geographics_internati.html

Some spectacular stuff here, as you would expect from NatGeo, but it's not by their staff photographers...

[Celebration]

1. Really enjoyed these

Now, if I could only conjure up some fireflies in December..........(LOVED that night shot!)

[alfredo]

2. Incredible.