2010 National Geographic Photography Contest Galleries

Gang Penasaran (An Avenging Alley)

Photo and caption by Pambudi Yoga Perdana

The written on the wall means “avenging spirit”. It’s the illustration of every day hard-life in an alley in the slum area called Kampung Dukuh, Surabaya. This area is teemed with outcast people. To this day, none of them have ID card, it is said that the local government always ignore their application for it — for unreasonable explanations. As a result, these people always have a hard time to move their life forward. Mostly, these people could only work as scavengers.

Desert Fashion

Photo and caption by Edwin Chow

After a couple cups of chai in Jaisalmer, we found ourselves spending an evening under the stars in the Great Thar Desert in the company of Kheta, his family, and of course, his camels. Following an evening of music and dance by campfire all night, all Kheta wanted in the morning was for us to assist him in the dressing of his headwear, the turban. Here you can see Mie in the background, while Kheta proudly ties his colourful turban, a centuries old symbol of honour in Rajasthan.

After

Photo and caption by Branko Modic

After long day ...

Backstage cigarette break

Photo and caption by paul vanhove

Roma musician Gheorghu holding a cigarette break between two sessions. Picture was taken at the Sighisoara festival in Romania.
(Sighisoara, Romania)

Reiki Master

Photo and caption by Drew Risner-Davis

Reiki tattoos in hot water.

THE FINALLY

Photo and caption by Tan Josua Tanugerah

this momen is chinese funeral ceremony

Kurdish Village Woman with Yufka (flatbread)

Photo and caption by Ben Ward

A Kurdish village woman stands with her Yufka (flatbread). Living in a rural area about 20 minutes outside of Şanlıurfa in Eastern Turkey, the women make about a months supply of bread at a time. This will later be sprinkled with water and reheated before it is consumed.

Peaceful in a cruel world...from a field hospital in Haiti 2010

Photo and caption by Tomas Arlemo

The Finnish and German Red Cross responded to the earthquake that struck Haiti on the 12th of January by setting up a complete Field Hospital equipped with an Operation Theatre, Intensive Care Unit, X-Ray Unit, Laboratory, Maternity Wards, Pediatric Ward etc. After four months roughly 20 000 patients had passed the hospital and a thousand new babies had been born.

Anti-governement protester remains defiant

Photo and caption by Cyrille Andres

A so-called "Red Shirt" anti-governement protester is standing proudly on top of the barricades they built, using bamboo sticks and tires. This was taken when the tension was growing as the rumour of a crackdown by the army was getting more and more insistent. The crackdown started one week later.

Travelling family

Photo and caption by Marcin Kucharski

Burmese family travelling down Irawady River from Mandalay to Bagan. Suspended in time.

old man of hampi

Photo and caption by gavin burnett

Portrait of the old man from the monkey temple in Hampi, India.

Zion 1

Photo and caption by Matanya Tausig

Father Nikodemus, one of the leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox church in the west Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Israel

I See You

Photo and caption by Tim Nolan

Velodrome Cycling

Bulgarian Easter

Photo and caption by Radoslav Tsvetkov

As the Bulgarian name implies "Velikden" (Great Day), Easter is one of the most significant holidays in the Bulgarian calendar. At midnight on the Saturday before Easter Sunday, people gather at the church with red painted eggs and bread. The priest proclaims three times "Christos voskrese" (Christ has risen) and the congregation replies "Vo istina voskrese" (Indeed he has risen). One of the Easter breads is specially decorated with one or more of red eggs. After a special sequence of services, the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people.

one for ten

Photo and caption by Munish Athif

A young Khmer girl outside Angkor Wat lifts her finger signifying one dollar, the amount she wants for her 10 postcards. Hundreds of children surround the great monuments of Cambodia which now sustain the country’s growing tourism industry. Once home to the most powerful empire in the region, decades of war and internal strife has left Cambodia scarred. Many children and families now struggle to make a living selling souvenirs.

The Test

Photo and caption by Jon Parker

All parties wait with apprehension as the doctor examines the blood test he just performed. The young girl of only eight years old looks towards the next room where her mother is waiting, unable to bring herself to her daughter's side knowing the very real possibility that she has passed on her deadly disease. Such is life in AIDS torn Africa.

Home

Photo and caption by Jon Parker

A woman shows the inside of her home, one that she shares with anywhere between twenty to thirty ducks and chickens in Bagamoyo Tanzania.

Early Morning Swimmer - Rob

Photo and caption by Philip Hill

I met Rob early on a cold winters day , it was a stormy morning and while he was swimming in the relative calm of the rock pool , Rob usually swims in the open sea from near the main pools edge to North Beach and back a return trip that has Rob swimming for around 40 minutes. This is a morning ritual in which Rob is a part of a group of people jokingly called the "Sharkbaiters" . On this day off Wollongong NSW Australia the seas were large and treacherous relegating Rob to play it safe.

Post Op.

Photo and caption by Nathanael Lichty

The burden of running a hospital in rural Nigeria weighs heavily on Medical Director Dr. Stephen Shaibu as he contemplates patient charts between surgical cases at Egbe Hospital. The challenges facing Egbe Hospital on a day to day basis are numerous, and often not medically related. When there time outside of surgery you may find Dr. Shaibu studying for exams he has yet to take, allocating funds from the budget for diesel to fuel the generator, or dealing with issues from the community. The role of Egbe Hospital extends far beyond medicine.

the lonely migrant 1

Photo and caption by Emilio Cresciani

My 88 year old uncle lives alone in a suburban house in Sydney, Australia. He built the house himself when he migrated from Italy in 1955. His bedroom walls have touristy images of places he has visited. He often reflects on his wartime experiences as a partisan fighting the Italians. How different his experience is in red brick suburban Australia. It involves a daily walk to the shops, smoking on the terrace, making coffee from chicory [a habit of the past] and watching television.

Sunday in Xela

Photo and caption by Grant Williams

Taken very early on Sunday morning as this old yet spirited man made his commute from home to mass. Taken in Quetzaltenango Guatemala.

Ask You To Take Care Of Grand Mother

Photo and caption by Pio Son

Vietnam, 2009

The Herd

Photo and caption by Bill Watson

Called from the desk to the paddock.

Enal with Pet Shark

Photo and caption by james morgan

Enal swims with his pet shark. Enal is a young bajau child, his ancestors have traditionally spent their entire lives living on small wooden boats moving around the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. But increasing environmental destruction has forced Bajau families such as Enal's to live on shore in stilt villages. However, Bajau children, such as Enal, still retain a strong connection to the ocean and I believe they could play a crucial role in conserving the ocean and restoring harmony.

Bethlehem Palestine Young boy feeds the doves watched by father and sister.

Photo and caption by haydn denman

Bethlehem Palestine Young boy feeds the doves watched by father and sister, their home was rocketed by helicopter gunfire during 2002 intifada. From a series of photographs taken at four different Bethlehem’s worldwide,Palestine,South Africa,USA and Wales. The photographer wanted to discover through photographing in these towns, what else these communities in these four very different continents have in common. What he found were people willing to welcome him and who showed great warmth and strength in often difficult circumstances

Monks on Train Hispaw Myanmar

Photo and caption by Mike Langford

Taken on a train journey between Mandalay and Hispaw.
It was a long slow trip and pretty hard for this eighty year old Monk on the way back to his monestary

Traditional Fisherman of Inle Lake

Photo and caption by Mike Langford

Continuing the traditions of centuries. This Inle lake fisherman paddles his craft using his foot in the shallow waters of Myanmar's Inle Lake

Sounds from the past

Photo and caption by oscar ortega

The past is always present today, sometimes we look back with surprise, sometimes with indifference but we can avoid it.

Pamirs family life

Photo and caption by yajie li

In Xinjiang Pamirs family live very simple life style. As you can the house simple like that. The bed, the stove, the table, the skylight... all natural.

Up, up and Away

Photo and caption by Nicole Connolly

The Oktoberfest in Germany is not all about drinking beer and dancing on tables. For two weeks the place also turns into a huge amusement park with daring rides that fly so close over the ground spectators heads, as seen in this image.

Novice Monk

Photo and caption by Madeline Gray

A novice monk pauses in the wooden monastery where he lives on Inle Lake in Myanmar in February 2010.

bottom of the seventh

Photo and caption by renee stevens

Three young players, on the Y youth baseball team in the historical city of Auburn, NY, discuss the game as they wait for their turn up to bat.

kids and camels

Photo and caption by konstantino hatzisarros

i met these two kids in Pushkar, India during camel fair, the largest animal market in the world. Right at the moment that i was taking the picture one of the camels decided to be part of the portrait

Barrels

Photo and caption by Paul Bettings

A young girl plays on floating barrels on the Bassac River. Children use this structure to fish from while the river doubles as a toilet, a washing machine and a play area for the local people. The village is a slum area called Prek Takong in the City of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vel Festival Sri Lanka

Photo and caption by noel hsu

Vel Festival in Colombo Sri Lanka

Jharia Coal 3

Photo and caption by allison joyce

A man crawls through an underground mine in Jharia, Jharrkhand, India, February 2010. The coal fields here were once used by companies, but then abandoned. The coal was exposed to the atmosphere, ignited, and underground fires spread across the towns. Locals in Jharia live over dozens of these underground coal fires that pump out toxic fumes and form fire pits that have led to several deaths and collapsed homes. They work alongside the fires, breathing fumes for up to 9 hours a day. The coal they collect earns them around $1 a day at the local markets.

Neglection

Photo and caption by Ron Hamburg

As I waited to cross the street in my truck during evening rush hour traffic, I noticed this women and her child crossing the street. What captured my eye was the child holding on delicately to the tail of her dress. I had no time but to quickly roll down my window and take two quick photographs. The picture truly came to life, when I realized that this toddler was not being attended to while in this dangerous situation,had no pants on,a dirty diaper, and both shoes untied! This is a perfect example of a photographers luck in capturing an interesting moment in time.

Mother

Photo and caption by Sreesailam Pasupula

Mother asking the help while child stares strangly at me.

Honorable Mention

Photo and caption by brian bielmann

Crazy Train

Donavon traveling the distance in slow motion while the white water erupts above him like a train out of control.

Praying ladies

Photo and caption by Ralph Bennett

The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of 13th century Lalibela, called Africa's 'New Jerusalem', are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia. Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilgrimage and devotion.

Great Market Shop

Photo and caption by Ian Spanier

Ezstar Kovács, shop owner at the Budapest's Great Market Hall poses proudly in front of her stand. The market is a major shopping center for locals and tourists alike.

Rosa

Photo and caption by Ian Spanier

Portrait of tobacco field worker Rosa Navarro, photographed in La Finca de Jugera outside Santa Rosa de Copan in Honduras.

Jade et la poupée.

Photo and caption by Emilie Perret

Instantané, instant posé, regard donné, regard intense, instant passé, regard d'enfance...

The Old Woman of Atlantika

Photo and caption by Bwana Beluzi

Madame Yibsina Besso, a 97 year old Koma mother of three and grandmother of eight. She is one of the last of her generation to have lived the 'old' ways for almost a century. Koma people are now drawn-off the fabled Atlantika Mountains that straddle the Cameroonian-Nigerian border in central west Africa, dispersing themselves into the hinterlands. Most Koma have now abandoned the ways of the past. Education, conversion to Christianity, the Muslim faith and the search for work in the region's towns have all accelerated the pace of change which now bears down upon this ethnic group.

lizzie in the desert

Photo and caption by Tertius Pickard

We were on assignment in a desert town when we found a couch and a broken tv in the middle of nowhere so we decided to watch a bit of news.

Run like Hell

Photo and caption by Agnieszka Traczewska

small Hassids in extreme situation: showing dislike of being portrayed while they demolish trash cans at the street what some adult Mea Sharim (Jerusalem), inhabitants often make during the night in political protest..

Portrait of a Marriage, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba

Photo and caption by Greg Slick

I met this amazing couple on their porch while I was exploring tobacco country in the Pinar del Rio province of Cuba. I spent an afternoon with them talking and photographing them on their porch. Most compassionate couple I have ever met.

A step of wife

Photo and caption by Shantel Liao

A glance of modern wedding in Taiwan, remain the spirit of traditional Chinese culture, but more symbolic. The black umbrella is representing that although the bride is playing the most important role in the wedding day, still need to show her humbleness in front of the god looking down from sky. The groom is taking her away from her parents, and accepting her to be a new member of his family. From this moment of leaving her parents' place, the bride is no longer belonged to her maiden home.

Sadhu

Photo and caption by Drew Mastromartino

I walked into a house with the permission of the Indian living there, walked up the stairs... and found this strikingly photogenic Sadhu on the second floor resting.

In the desert

Photo and caption by ken hermann

This picture is shot in the desert in India

On the Outskirts

Photo and caption by Michelle Britton

A girl lays with her doll in her home in Cantagalo, a favela in Piracicaba SP, Brazil. She and her little brother live with their single mother in a shack built from scrap wood. Their mother works whenever she can as a singer at various clubs in the city.

Remembrance Sunday

Photo and caption by Pete Carr

I met Norma at the Remembrance Day service in New Brighton. She was there to pay her respects to members of her family who died during WWI and WWII. Her brother, William Hoyland, died in 1940 and was a member of the RAF. Her husband's uncle, John Taker, died in France and James Taker died in Gallipoli in 1917. She remembers the bombings in Wallasey during WWII. A bomb exploded quite near her house and she was evacuated to live with her aunt in Banbury.

Coal Mining Lifestyle, Appalachia

Photo and caption by Catherine Hall

This family was forced to relocate to a small 1-bedroom abode after loosing their home in a mudslide caused by strip mining of coal.

Jumping dance & Fresh milk

Photo and caption by Miguel Candela

Masai warriors recreat themselves with their famouse "Jumping dance" in the last hours of the day while a women obtain some fresh milk.

Warriors are well known for their competitive jumping. A circle is formed by the warriors, and one or two at a time will enter the center to begin jumping while maintaining a narrow posture, never letting their heels touch the ground.

Viewers' Choice People Winner

Photo and caption by Bill Watson

Manog Giri

Sadhu, Manog Giri floats in the freezing cold Ganges during the 2010 Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, India. Approximately 40 million devotees converged on the small town of Haridwar to bathe in the holy Ganges and to receive blessings from the Hindu religion's holymen, the Sadhus.

School Girls

Photo and caption by Dustin Cantrell

Photo taken in a school yard in a small river village in Laos.

Fisherman

Photo and caption by Elmar Akhmetov

I came across the group of fishermen on one rainy morning in Kochi when I was trying to capture sunrise with the view of chinese nets that Kochi is famous for. They gave me a shelter from the rain and accepted me into their group, so I could capture their daily life. Hands and fingers of this fisherman remind me of a rope which he has to pull everyday to make a living, and his skin is looking like the bark that covers wooden covering of the pier.

Intermission

Photo and caption by Nicole Lenderking

I was recently challenged to photograph a special part of my life in the city where I grew up - Roanoke, Virginia. For the majority of my childhood, I danced. And I loved every minute of being a Ballerina. I also spent a lot of time at a tiny diner in Downtown Roanoke called the "Texas Tavern." It's been there for 80 years, and is still serving its famous chili and cheesy westerns (have you ever had a fried egg on a hamburger?). I decided to incorporate these two meaningful parts of growing up into one photograph.

generations

Photo and caption by Lukas Mossig

A young boy is playing while his grandfather is lost in thoughts after telling stories about the Tchernobyl disaster.

The Cove

Photo and caption by Giordano Cipriani

Silhouetted by a diver through a sea cave in the seabed of Raja Ampat, laocated off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of Papua, Indonesia's West Papua province. Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1.500 small islands, cays and Shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, and Batanta Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.

relaxing

Photo and caption by William Chua

locals in Haa, Bhutan relaxing in a typical morning

girl playing with cat

Photo and caption by William Chua

girl playing with cat

ballerina 1

Photo and caption by Kevin Cozma

A lovely young ballerina.

Gyula, Brigi and Tao

Photo and caption by Csaba Heltai

Part of the series - "My relationships" (NG hungarian edition - Pepole 1st - Photo: Évi Oravecz)

The Ring Leader

Photo and caption by Kasandra Antoine

At Namdaemun Market in Seoul, South Korea, I noticed a man dressed elaborately in order to entice women to buy winter coats.

HANDS OF GOD

Photo and caption by YUKARI CHIKURA

This saadhu spends the life with one hand raised.  A long fingernail feels the annual ring.

The Horseman Sweden

Photo and caption by lena holmgren

Stig-Anders Svensson is a solitary man in a remote village in Sweden. Together with his three draught horses, Stig-Anders works his land and forest in an old-fashioned way. The picture shows Stig-Anders and Sally coming out from the stable a wintry february day 2010. They are going to drive timber to the sawmill.

Curious Himba KId

Photo and caption by SANJAY GUPTA

I was driving to photograph Himbas in their villages and saw this on side of the road. The boy seems to wonder what I am looking at.

pet

Photo and caption by Lukas Mossig

man training a cat in an village close to the Forbidden Zone, Tchernobyl, Ukraine

Play safe

Photo and caption by ANGELOS KALYVAS

A senior couple in the island of Andros, Greece.

The girl and her father

Photo and caption by Philippe Rigault

A young girl on the doorstep, with her father in the background, somewhere in a village in northern Yemen

DEVOTION #3

Photo and caption by ENEKO ERTZ

Prostrations are one of the most moving rituals of the Tibetan tradition. Some people do them stationary, in front of a temple, keeping count of the number of prostrations with pebbles by their side; other people do the “kora” (circumambulation around the temple) prostration after prostration. Prostration is a gesture used in Buddhist practice to show reverence to the Triple Gem (comprising the Buddha, his teachings and the spiritual community.) This man was praying at the Gyelmo Murdo Temple, near Dong Po Zhang Yia

The Happiest Day

Photo and caption by Mirko Uljarevic

I was taking photos of the park when a bride, noticing my camera, asked me if I could take a group photo of them as their photographer was runing late. I took couple of test shots while she was trying to gather people and I found that this photo was actually the most successful in capturing the spirit of the event.

Boy

Photo and caption by Grant Orbeta

A boy takes shelter from a mild drizzle in front of a street stall and looks straight at the camera, oblivious to the people around him who are buying from the street vendor.

Charcoal worker

Photo and caption by Debasish Ghosh

This worker inside the small dusty pit is removing charcoal for his livelihood despite severe health hazards.

Break time

Photo and caption by Tal Sofer

Three orphan girls spending their break time, Uganda.

Precious Petals

Photo and caption by Darren Smith

These delicate petals offer a striking contrast to the hard weathered floor that supports them. One cannot exist without the other, if floorboards could talk what wonderful stories would be shared.

Honorable Mention

Photo and caption by robin utrecht

Xhosa Boy

South Africa: A Xhosa boy from the Xhosa tribe cries during a circumcision ceremony, where the young boys become men after surviving 4 to 6 weeks alone in the bush in the West Cape of South Africa. Also Nelson Mandela is from the same tribe and has done this ritual.

Sumo

Photo and caption by Andrew Peacock

I was fortunate to gain access to watch Sumo wrestlers at the Azumazeki stable practice their ritualistic sport at an early morning training session on February 15 2010 in Higashi-Komagata, Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.

Tube Slide

Photo and caption by Kelly Englund

My nephew going down a slide in Long Beach, MS.

The Next Stop

Photo and caption by Lawrence Liu YC

Greece has always been famous among tourists and here we have two of them navigating their way around the venetian harbor.

Greece, April 2009.

LA CASA TOMADA 003

Photo and caption by JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ MALDONADO

El año 2000 en Colombia, el grupo paramilitar denominado "Héroes De Los Montes De María" desplazó a 1500 familias de su pueblo.10 años después varias personas vuelven a sus casas para retratarse y rendir un homenaje a la tierra que siempre será su hogar. Esta es una realidad que no debe repetirse en el próximo bicentenario.Imagen 003: "En familia oramos por todos los desplazados que perdimos nuestro hogar, para que, por lo menos a nivel espiritual, recobremos la dignidad que, con desmesurada violencia, nos fue arrebatada. Así sea."
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ MALDONADO

Dignity

Photo and caption by Pamela Schwarz

Photo taken by Pamela Schwarz on November 4, 2010 in Nagrakot, Nepal.

Child of a Leather worker

Photo and caption by Saud A Faisal

Dhaka is the Capital of the Bangladesh and a very highly populated city of the world. The leather industries are in middle of the city. Everyday air and water is being polluted by the waste. But the worker is worker there without any precaution to this hazards. Even the kids grown up in that area within the circle of ignorance. Life goes on children remain palyful even in this thick air of leather burnt wasted air.

The third daughter

Photo and caption by mona simon

This Gypsy girl belongs to the cardarari a subgroups of Romani people in Transylvania/ Romania. After already having 2 daughters, her family was very upset when she was born as they where desperately wayting for a son, to inherit the families property one day.
She is 5 years old now. Mainly because of her exceptional beauty she has already been promised (theoretically married) by her family to a neighbour families son. When she completes 13, she will leave her own family and move to her husbands.

Masai's portrait on fire

Photo and caption by Nicolas Lotsos

In a Masai village in Kenya, a Masai man blows to light a fire .

The boys beg

Photo and caption by GookHee Jeon

Hands to feel sympathy.

@Tingri road,Tibet.

Listening to Jesus

Photo and caption by gali tibbon

Christian Orthodox pilgrims rest their heads on an altar at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. According to Orthodox tradition, if you place your ear over the altar you can hear the agony of Jesus.

New home

Photo and caption by Robin Moore

A girl stares out from the bed in her new home after the January 12 earthquake destroyed her family home in Port Au Prince, Haiti

Two girls in a cart in Utah.

Photo and caption by An-Sofie Kesteleyn

Two girls sitting in a cart with the mountains behind them, just after shopping in a supermarket in Moab, Utah.

Next meal

Photo and caption by Robin Moore

A girl stares at a bag of crackers, her only food for the day in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Port Au Prince, Haiti

What's my future?

Photo and caption by Charles Steinberg

On an initial visit to northern Uganda to set up a poverty eradication project with shea nut butter, I met this family and this lovely boy. Picture shot indoors with available light.

Dancing in the Dust "...every second something new takes my breath away..."

Photo and caption by Benjamin Chambers

Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man Project 2010 -Dancing on the playa, Lindsey Vecchione (Virgin Burner) despite the persistent and blinding dust storms enjoys the music unphased. Of Burning Man she says “Heaven on Earth! Every second something new takes my breath away.” Black Rock offered us a refuge, an awakening in which we can educate, dance, create and be happy without losing sight of what really matters, life in freedom with each other.

Citizens of Despair

Photo and caption by Javier Arcenillas

More than ten years after their expulsion from Myanmar, thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong makeshift camp, Bangladesh, have been forcibly displaced from their homes, in an act of intimidation and abuse by the local authorities. Some international organisations have been treating numerous people for injuries where the majority were women and children victims of rejection, and the situation doesn´t seem to be advancing but towards the ultimate despair of these new asian parias.

Under EXPOsed

Photo and caption by Anita Sircar

A business man on his way to work on a rainy Shanghai morning in China. Behind him a wall of billboards advertises the many pavilions on display for the World Expo 2010 currently happening in the city. The China Pavilion painted boldly in red, beams brightly on this otherwise gloomy day.

Photos without history.

Photo and caption by Roberto Bragotto

I always thought that one photo, to be good, must tell his story... and I believe that only if you can send a story without having to tell, you can get the only possible outcome: giving voice, feelings and soul to an image.

Just before the sacred dip in the Ganges

Photo and caption by Abhishek Hajela

Mahakumbh is celebrated at the Ghats of river Ganga after every 12 years. Devotees come from all over India to take holy dip during this festival. Mahakumbh is the largest gatheration of Humanity on earth, it is the world biggest fair.

Naga Sadhus are devotees of Shiva and are the first one to take dip. In this pictues Naga sadhus are assembling on the Ghats of river Ganges to take the Holy Dip!

Grandma

Photo and caption by Jan Jungwirth

This young girl and her grandmother i met on the street in Jerusalem, Israel. After a short talk they invited me to their house. While i photographed the girl her grandmother went through the background by mistake and i decided to put the focus on her...

Drought

Photo and caption by Stipe Marinovic

The picture shows big birds fighting for water with children during drought season in Uganda.
The picture was taken outside Kampala (capital of Uganda) in summer 2009.

The Fighter

Photo and caption by Scott Hirano

A Muay Thai fighter hangs on the ropes after defeat. Fighters train months and work day after day to fit a regimen that will prepare them for a fight that will last just minutes.

Cell pic

Photo and caption by benjamin brown

2 days after the quake everyone was still trying to capture and understand what fully happened

Overwhelmed

Photo and caption by Dalibor Talajic

A person I met by chance.

Moonlight

Photo and caption by Jorge Echeverri

A place called "Round well", a friend (Mateo), a large sheet and the moon.

Naga Baba

Photo and caption by martin prihoda

A naked Sadhu in his Yoga practice on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar...near the Indian Himalayas.

Idaho provides

Photo and caption by Theron Humphrey

A Northern Idaho hunter provides for his family for the winter.