Winners of 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest

2010 National Geographic Photography Contest 16,000 photographs submitted from 130 countries entered National Geographic Photographs Contest 2010. Some favourites were extracted for publishing.     Such beauty on our Earth.... 

Unexpected danger in Kanana Camp, Botswana    Snow Weasel, Minnesota USA    Oia Santorini, Greece    Piraputanga fish in Sucuri river, Brazil    The Louvre, Paris    The Pyramids, Egypt    Al-Saleh Mosque, Yemen   Praying Mantis  Thunderstorm in Montana, USA  A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Central, Hong Kong Alone  River Bank in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province, China  Mountain fog Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick   Heavy load - little fly on a small white flower   Great Blue Heron with fish   Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia - children playing with their roosters    Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada  Mount Everest climber  Warminster, England  Feeding Koi fish at Windows of the World, Shenzhen, China  Oasis  Bee, purple flower  Czech Republic  the Angolan Plateau  Buddhist Monastery of Ki, Himalayas Grand Prize Winner of 2010 National Geographic Contest Eruption of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia Winning photo taken by Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore Contest judge Joel Sartore said, ⤽This image best represented the craft of photography.