Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

Categories: World

The editors of Smithsonian magazine have announced the winners of their 12th annual photography competition, selected from over 26,500 entries.

(Total 14 photos)

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

1. "Main Prize". Women from a small village near Ninh Thuan, Vietnam make fishing nets while their husbands go fishing. Photographer: Pham Ty from Vietnam.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

2. Winner in the Natural World category. An iguana emerged for a breath of air in a sea cave off the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean. Photographer: Lorenzo Mittig.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

3. Winner in the Travel category. Fireworks sparkle on passers-by during Holy Week festivities in Acobamba, Peru. Photographer: David Huamani Bedoya.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

4. Readers' Choice #1. A snake swallows a frog near the Arenal volcano in Costa Rica. Photographer: Nicolas Reusens from Madrid, Spain.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

5. Winner in the American category. US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House. In the next window you can see a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln. Photographer: Olivier Douliery.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

6. Winner in the category "People". A woman plays with her child in a flooded house on the banks of the Ganges in Calcutta, India. Photographer: Joydeep Mukherjee.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

7. Winner in the Mobilography category. National Library of China in Beijing. Photographer: Yilang Peng.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

8. Readers' Choice #2. Selva Verde Lodge, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. “This non-venomous snake was very mobile, so it was quite difficult for me to photograph it in its entirety.” Photographer: Alvaro Cubero Vega from Costa Rica.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

9. Winner in the Modified Images category. House for fishermen at sea. Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Photographer: Jefflin Ling

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

10. Finalist in the category "People". A teenage girl named Onno is from the Arbore tribe in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Photographer: Matjaz Krivic from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

11. Finalist in the Natural World category. Reflection of sunlight on a wave off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. Photographer: Ray Collins from Sydney, Australia.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

12. Finalist in the category "People". An albino girl at an exhibition on albinism at the Museum of Ethnology in Valencia. Photographer: Ana Yturralde from Valencia, Spain.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

13. Finalist in the category "Travel". View of a wheat field in Bagan, Myanmar, from a hot air balloon. Photographer: Sesh Kumar Sareday.

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners

14. Finalist in the Natural World category. Grizzly in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photographer: Kevin Morgans.

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