Third place:High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback. – Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler(CC BY-SA 4.0)
#12: A U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules aircraft with the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron – Attribution: DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Oscar L. Olive IV, U.S. Marine Corps/Released. (flickr) (PD-USGov-Marines)
The 2014 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results:
We shattered participation records this year – more people voted in Picture of the Year 2014 than ever before. In both rounds, 6698 different people voted for their favorite media files.
In the second round, 3824 people voted for the 54 finalists (the R1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category).
In the second round – the “three votes” system was enabled for the first time this year – eligible users could vote for up to 3 finalists – each of these 3 votes counted equal.
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content:
#4: Lijiang, Yunnan, China: Nakhi people carrying the typical baskets of the region – Attribution: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / Cccefalon (CC BY-SA 3.0)
#5:Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) jumping, in Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway. – Attribution: Arturo de Frias Marques (CC BY-SA 4.0)
#6: Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in emission nebula IC 434), a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. – Attribution: Ken Crawford (imagingdeepsky.com) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
#7: Rocks formations and the Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) peak in the background, at the Serra dos Órgãos National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil – Attribution: Carlos Perez Couto (CC BY-SA 3.0)
#8: Head of a Calliphora vicina, face view. – Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab (flickr) (CC BY 2.0)
#9: Pair of Mandarins (Aix galericulata), at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK – Attribution: Francis C. Franklin / Baresi franco (CC BY-SA 3.0)
#10: A Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) silhouetted against a fiery sunset, in the Okavango Delta, in Botswana. – Attribution: Arturo de Frias Marques (CC BY-SA 4.0)
#11: Sunrise in morning mist near Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – Attribution: Dietmar Rabich / XRay (CC BY-SA 4.0)
#12: A U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules aircraft with the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron – Attribution: DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Oscar L. Olive IV, U.S. Marine Corps/Released. (flickr) (PD-USGov-Marines)
