Here is the Category winners in the Round 1 of the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2010 competition.
Category - Diagrams, emblems and maps
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Diagrams #1 – 187 votes in Round 1;
- A rotating animation of the human brain showing the left frontal lobe in red within a semitransparent skull. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is sometimes also included in the frontal lobe. Other authors include the ACC as a part of limbic lobe. (POTD)
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Diagrams #2 – 186 votes in Round 1;
- Combined Buddhabrot from 20.000 (purple), 100.000 (blue) and 1.000.000 (white) iterations. (POTD)
- Credit: Own work by UnreifeKirsche .
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Diagrams #3 – 158 votes in Round 1;
- Bronchial anatomy detail of alveoli and lung circulation. (POTD)
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Category - Non-photographic art, posters, stamps, and historic maps
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Diagrams #2 – 110 votes in Round 1;
- 'Crystal dish with melons (Fruttiera di cristallo con meloni). Oil painting on wood panel, 60 x 42 cm (POTD)
- Credit: Mauro David (1949–2007) .
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Diagrams #3 – 101 votes in Round 1;
- 'The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1480-1505) by Hieronymus Bosch. Oil on wood triptych, 220 cm x 389 cm, now in the Museo del Prado. High-resolution version from The Prado in Google Earth. (POTD)
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Category - Interiors and details
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Diagrams #1 – 163 votes in Round 1;
- St Aubin's Cathedral (Belgium) (POTD)
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Diagrams #3 – 129 votes in Round 1;
- A wide panoramic view of the Waterlily House in Kew Gardens, London, England. (POTD)
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Own work by Diliff (DAVID ILIFF)
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Category - Objects and miscellaneous
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Diagrams #1 – 270 votes in Round 1;
- Tabletop photography by "Studiocommunity e.V." (incorporated association). No photomontage was used. All objects were fastened on the board, which was pushed from the side, whereby the wine spilled out of the glass. The carafe is filled with wine coloured gelatine. (POTD)
- Credit: Own work by Stefan Krause, from Germany .
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Diagrams #2 – 168 votes in Round 1;
- Radiometer. The Crookes radiometer, also known as the light mill or solar engine, consists of an airtight glass bulb, containing a partial vacuum. Inside are a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle. The vanes rotate when exposed to light. (POTD)
- Credit: Own work by Nevit Dilmen .
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Diagrams #3 – 116 votes in Round 1;
- GIF-animation showing a moving echocardiogram; a 3D-loop of a heart viewed from the apex, with the apical part of the ventricles removed and the mitral valve clearly visible. Due to missing data the leaflet of the tricuspid and aortic valve is not clearly visible, but the openings are. To the left are two standard two-dimensional views taken from the 3D dataset. (POTD)
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Own work by Ekko (Kjetil Lenes)
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Category - Vehicles
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Vehicles #1 – 188 votes in Round 1;
- Crew members refuel an A V-22 Osprey vertical-lift aircraft before a night mission in central Iraq. (POTD)
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Vehicles #2 – 176 votes in Round 1;
- Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe patrol the airspace in an F-15E Strike Eagle as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches May 14, 2010, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (POTD)
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Vehicles #3 – 149 votes in Round 1;
- Local train on the Bernina Express line between Lagalb and Ospizio Bernina pulled by two ABe 4/4 multiple units (an ABe 4/4 II leading an ABe 4/4 III). The two multiple units have excess power with only two passenger cars, so some freight is carried along. (POTD)
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Category - Nature views
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Diagrams #2 – 206 votes in Round 1;
- Horseshoe Bend, Arizona. Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona. (POTD)
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Diagrams #3 – 182 votes in Round 1;
- Out of fog Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco in fog and crepuscular rays. (POTD)
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Category - Astronomy, satellite and outer space
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Diagrams #1 – 305 votes in Round 1;
- In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). (POTD)
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Diagrams #3 – 178 votes in Round 1;
- HST Orion Nebula image composited with a Spitzer image for something a little different. (POTD)
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Category - Plants and fungi
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Category - Arthropods
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Arthropods #1 – 220 votes in Round 1;
- Blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) Portrait, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia. 3.5:1 magnification. (POTD)
- Credit: Own work by JJ Harrison (http://www.noodlesnacks.com/) .
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Category - Mammals
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Mammals #2 – 189 votes in Round 1;
- Young leopard charging. Photo taken at Rhino and Lion Park, Gauteng, South Africa. (POTD)
- Credit: Own work by Leo za1 .
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Mammals #3 – 167 votes in Round 1;
- Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) at the Buffalo Zoo. One of the cubs Thyme and Warner, with its mother Sungari. The cubs were born at the zoo to Sungari, and father Toma, on 7 October 2007. (POTD)
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Category - Bones, shells, and fossils
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Bones, shells, and fossils #2 – 101 votes in Round 1;
- Tomb of Téviec: Two skeletons of women aged between 25 and 35 years, dated between - 6740 and - 5680 BP (Mesolithic), both of whom died a violent death. Recovery made in 1938 and restoration completed in 2010. (POTD)
- Credit: Picture by Didier Descouens .
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Bones, shells, and fossils #3 – 87 votes in Round 1;
- Skull of the burial Théviec. Female 25 to 35 years. Stage : Mesolithic (-6740 to -5680 Before the Current Era) Locality : Théviec, Morbihan, France. Museum of Toulouse. (POTD)
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