National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos]
Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from. (© Robert Spanring)
- Alaska
- Anita Erdmann
- Asia Pacific
- Australia
- Ben Nun
- blue metal dumpster
- Bourgas
- Brent Lukey
- Bulgaria
- Cael Cook
- cat 1
- Catalin Marin
- Charles Funk
- Chris Morin
- Christopher Bellezza
- Clay Wilton
- Colin McCrindle
- construction site
- Copenhagen
- Danielle Goldstein
- Danny Griffin
- David Litchfield
- Death valley
- Dmitriy Nikonov
- Dmitry Gorilovskiy
- Don Chamblee
- Dubai
- Dubai
- Editing
- Elena Baroni
- Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris
- energy
- Ethiopia
- Florida
- gas release
- Gion
- Graham McGeorge
- Hannes Lochner
- Hawaii
- Island of Hawaii
- Jack
- Japan
- Jeff Engelhardt
- Jimmy Tohill
- Kleinfeltersville
- Kyoto
- Laos
- Lars Tiemann
- Lee Sie
- Lome
- Lorenzo Menendez
- Mark Bridger
- Mass media
- Michael Patrick
- Mother Teresa TB Hospital
- Namibia
- Nathan Fletcher
- National Geographic
- New Orleans
- Nino Benninger
- oil
- Pakistan
- Pennsylvania
- Red Sea
- Ricardo Mohr
- Ripping
- Robert Jensen
- Robert Spanring
- Rotary Club
- Russell Watkins
- Russia
- Sara Worsham
- Sindh
- South Australia
- Sri Lanka
- Steven Kovacs
- Tazovsky peninsula
- Ted Grambeau
- Timothy Wright
- Togo
- Upper Antelope Canyon
- Vaclav Krpelik