National Geographic Photo Contest Winners 2007

1. This photograph was taken during a vacation in northern India in January 2007, in the city of Rishikesh. image credit: Jacopo Pandolfini 2. A female mallard protects her young from a great blue heron. image credit: William Bickle 3. A swarm flying over a river in Korea. image credit: Ryun Hyung-Min 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 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 6. This male gorilla was photographed at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. image credit: Alexander Vasiljev 7. Dragonfly. image credit: Kirk Gardner 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 9. Newborn Weddell seal pup sleeping near Little Herring Island, Antarctica. image credit: Chris Wilson 10. Seagulls. image credit: Bartosz Nikiciuk 11 A hyena chases another hyena with a wildebeest's leg in its mouth in Tanzania, Africa. image credit: William Cowles Meyer 12 I found this little guy on one of the hostas this summer; he was covered in dew, sleeping. image credit: Noah Rosen 13 Seagull at Bandon, Oregon. image credit: Alex Morley 14 Lake Nam Co, Tibet. image credit: Timothy Heath 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 16 A baby gibbon clutches its mother at Roger Williams Park Zoo, Providence, Rhode Island. image credit: Kim Botelho Source: nationalgeographic.com