photo #oftheday: national geographic winners 2012

Have you checked out the winners from National Geographic's 2012 Photo Contest yet? The Grand-Prize Winner is definitely an incredible image, so be sure to click through and view in full size.

There are plenty of incredible shots, and here are my favorites:

Grand-Prize Winner: "The Explosion!" by Ashley Vincent

Honorable Mention, People: "Captive" by Wendell Phillips

Viewers' Choice for People: "Expedition Amundsen" by Kai-Otto Melau

Honorable Mention, Nature: "Predation" by Fransisca Harlijanto

photos #oftheday: happy autumn

In celebration of tomorrow being the first day of fall:

   

  

Credit: P0RG / Jeremy Cram / 3

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pic #oftheday: howdyowlydoo

Photo Credit: Matthew Paulson

I am no sucker for the all-things-turned-owl trend, but is this not the most adorable visual "hello" ever? Flickr caption reads, "Young Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Stretching." There. Now you even know its scientific name/binomen.

Happy Friday, all!

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pic #oftheday: odd one out

Photograph by David Schultz via National Geographic.

Strikingly colored, an adult king penguin stands out in a sea of chicks on South Georgia Island.

I thought someone had photoshopped strange manifestations of upright kiwi birds around this poor, bewildered king penguin. Who knew the babies were so big and brown?

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