Check this out! The best of National Geographic photographs of 2011. Let’s flashback to 2011 for a minute.
BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOS OF 2011
“Homeless” Photograph by Chan Kwok Hung
“Hungry Pelicans” Photograph by Bence Máté
“Penguins and Fire” photograph by Shem Compion
“Touché” Photograph by Csaba Tökölyi
“Lightning at Kaieteur Falls” Photograph by James Broscombe
“Giant’s Gullet” Photograph by Doug Perrine
“Wild Dog Hunt” Photograph by Suzie Eszterhas
“Silver and Gold” Photograph by Bjørn Leirvik
“Lost Villages” Photograph by Neil A. White
“Kingfisher” Photograph by Joe Petersburger
2011 PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS – NATURE
“Dragonfly” Photograph by Shikhei Goh
“The blue pond” Photograph by Kent Shiraishi
“Jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata” Photograph by Angel Fitor
“Serengeti National Park,” Photograph by Marius Coetzee
“Hunting” Photograph by Stefano Pesarelli
“Beluga whales” Photograph by dafna ben nun
2011 PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS – PEOPLE
“The Fjellman Family” Photograph by Izabelle Nordfjell
“Halloween” Photograph by Lisa Clarke
Photograph by George Voulgaropoulos
Photograph by Helen Pearson
Photograph by Alessandro Citti
2011 PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS – PLACES
“Onuk Island, Philippines” Photograph by George Tapan
“Taipei” Photograph by Hung-Hsiu Shih
“Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro” Photograph by Felipe Carvalho
“Bhaktapur, Nepal” Photograph by Anuar Patjane
“Ponte Vedra, Florida” Photograph by James Vernacotola
“Krishna Temple, India” Photograph by Alejandra Loreto
BEST 10 PHOTOGRAPHS OF 2011
“Rift in Paradise” Photograph by Joel Sartore
“Too Young to Wed” Photograph by Stephanie Sinclair
“Baghdad After the Storm” Photograph by Lynsey Addario
“Taming the Wild” Photograph by Vincent J. Musi
“Orphans No More” Photograph by Michael Nichols
“Spirit Bear” Photograph by Paul Nicklen
“Sami” Photograph by Erika Larsen
Photograph by Pascal Maitre
“Beautiful Teenage Brains” Photograph by Kitra Cahana
“Conquering an Infinite Cave” Photograph by Carsten Peter
BEST NEWS PICTURES OF 2011
“Japan Tsunami” Photograph by Yomiuri Shimbun
“Area 51 Spy Plane Revealed” Photograph by Roadrunners Internationale
“Bodies” Underwater Photograph by Jason deCaires Taylor
“Cyclops Shark” Photograph by Marcela Bejarano-Álvarez
“Fire and Flood in Japan” Photograph by Kyodo/Reuters
“9/11 Anniversary” Photograph by Mario Tama
“Mind-Control Fungus” Photograph by David Hughes
“Largest Crocodile?” Photograph by AP
“Remembering the Space Shuttle” Photograph by Duffin McGee
“Web-Wrapped Trees” Photograph by Russell Watkins
BEST SPACE PICTURES OF 2011
“Endeavour” Photograph by NASA
Madagascar “Jellyfish” Photograph by JAXA/ESA
“Iceland Aurora” Photograph by Stephane Vetter
“Striped Supernova” Photograph by CXC/NASA
“Warped Galaxy” Photograph by ESA/NASA
“Solar Loop” Photograph by SDO/NASA
“Orionid Meteor” Photograph by Jeffrey Berkes
“Speeding Star” Photograph by NASA
“Room With a View” Photograph by NASA
“Lunar Eclipse” Photograph by Babak Tafreshi
BEST WALLPAPERS OF 2011
“Matterhorn” Photograph by Verena Popp-Hackner
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“Timber Wolves” Photograph by Jacqueline Crivello
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“Hang En Cave, Vietnam” Photograph by Carsten Peter
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“Penstemons, Tahoe National Forest” Photograph by Raymond Gehman
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“Frog and Crocodile” Photograph by Jonathan Blair
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“Autumn Landscape, Adirondacks” Photograph by Michael Melford
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“Lemurs, Madagascar” Photograph by Stephen Alvarez
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“Inishowen, Ireland” Photograph by Dave Johnston
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“Lightning, Dubai” Photograph by Maxim Shatrov
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“Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica” Photograph by Patrick di Fruscia
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“Cave Diving, Yucatan Peninsula” Photograph by Christian Vizl
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“Cotton Grass, Iceland” Photograph by Jennifer Jesse
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“Five Flower Lake, China” Photograph by Michael Yamashita
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“Leopard, South Africa” Photograph by Madison Hall
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“Volcano, Tanzania” Photograph by Olivier Grunewald
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“Moss-Covered Truck” Photograph by Jason Rydquist
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“El Capitan, Yosemite National Park” Photograph by Jean Slavin
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“Lake of Zug, Switzerland” Photograph by Ingo Meckmann
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