Friday, January 18, 2008

National Geographic Photo Contest Winners 2007

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1. This photograph was taken during a vacation in northern India in January 2007, in the city of Rishikesh.
image credit: Jacopo Pandolfini

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2. A female mallard protects her young from a great blue heron.
image credit: William Bickle

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3. A swarm flying over a river in Korea.
image credit: Ryun Hyung-Min

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4. This little baby deer was found in my wife's grandmother's front yard. We found it while doing yard work.
image credit: Chris Bush

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5. A green sea turtle emerges from a pit after nesting in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. During the nesting process the female turtles are most susceptible to their predators.
image credit: Neil Osborne

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6. This male gorilla was photographed at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.
image credit: Alexander Vasiljev

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7. Dragonfly.
image credit: Kirk Gardner

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8. I was out with the camera after a passing thunderstorm. As I was photographing a group of calla lilies, I happened upon this little guy nestled comfortably in one, taking shelter from the rain.
image credit: Sainath Kamath

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9. Newborn Weddell seal pup sleeping near Little Herring Island, Antarctica.
image credit: Chris Wilson

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10. Seagulls.
image credit: Bartosz Nikiciuk

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11 A hyena chases another hyena with a wildebeest's leg in its mouth in Tanzania, Africa.
image credit: William Cowles Meyer

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12 I found this little guy on one of the hostas this summer; he was covered in dew, sleeping.
image credit: Noah Rosen

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13 Seagull at Bandon, Oregon.
image credit: Alex Morley

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14 Lake Nam Co, Tibet.
image credit: Timothy Heath

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15 Racing to complete a day’s work, a dung beetle loses control of its prize possession on the tar road that runs through Kruger National Park, South Africa.
image credit: Scott Francis

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16 A baby gibbon clutches its mother at Roger Williams Park Zoo, Providence, Rhode Island.
image credit: Kim Botelho

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