Commons:Picture of the Year
The Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first run in 2006. It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status. This year's candidate images are listed at Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/2023.
First place: Saint John Church of Sohrol is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran. – Attribution: Farzin Izaddoust dar / CC BY SA 4.0
Second place: A leaf beetle (Aulacophora indica) looking out from a leaf hole of Alnus nepalensis tree in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
Attribution: Mildeep (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
Attribution: StevenTerblanche (CC BY SA 4.0)
First place: Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) hunting in water. Natural reserves and contiguous areas of the Po River belt, Provincia di Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy – Attribution: Luca Casale / CC BY SA 4.0
Second place: A doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic in San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy.
Attribution: Alberto Giuliani (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: A surgeon during the COVID-19 pandemic in San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy.
Attribution: Alberto Giuliani (CC BY SA 4.0)
Second place: Notre Dame's spire taken from the Saint Louis bridge during the 15th April 2019 fire. – Attribution: LEVRIER Guillaume (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: A village girl, Palangan, Kurdistan, Iran. – Attribution: Salar Arkan - سالار ارکان (CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: Evolution of a Tornado: Composite of eight images shot in sequence as a tornado formed in Kansas. – Attribution: JasonWeingart (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Second place: Train from Antofagasta to Bolivia, pictured between San Pedro and Ascotan, Chile. – Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler (CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: Two Phyllomedusa rohdei vie for a branch, one passing over the other. – Attribution: Renato Augusto Martins / CC BY-SA 4.0
Second place: Royal pavilion in Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand. – Attribution: BerryJ (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: Computer Generated Cross Section 3d Model of Heart.– Attribution: DrJanaOfficial (CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: Jubilee and Munin, Ravens of the Tower of London. – Attribution: © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
Second place: Wild elephants walking up a road in the area of Khao Yai National Park. – Attribution: Khunkay (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Third place: Male Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) chasing a bearded seal. – Attribution: Andreas Weith (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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First place: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. – Attribution: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute (public domain)
Second place: A view of the interior of Nasir ol Molk Mosque located in Shiraz. – Attribution: Ayyoubsabawiki (cc-by-sa-4.0)
Third place: Milky Way lying above a lady, at Trona Pinnacles National Landmark, California. – Attribution: Ian Norman (http://www.lonelyspeck.com)(cc-by-sa-2.0)
2014 Picture of the Year (Results)
A huge "Thank you" to all our 3824 voters in round 2. You contributed to the highest participation POTY ever experienced, with 4504 people voting for all 983 files in round 1, and 3824 voting for the 54 finalists in round 2.
First place: Dos mariposas Julia (Dryas iulia) bebiendo lágrimas de tortugas en Ecuador. Las tortugas plácidamente permiten a las mariposas sorber las lágrimas de sus ojos mientras toman el sol sobre un tronco. Esta "alimentación de lágrimas" es un fenómeno conocido como lacrifagia. Atribución: amalavida.tv (flickr)
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Second place: An Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water. Atribución: Christopher Michel
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Third place: Muy por encima de Tocopilla, Chile, una locomotora eléctrica GE 289A Boxcab de la Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile realiza el descenso por la horquilla Reverso. Atribución: Kabelleger / David Gubler
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: Filamento de tungsteno quemándose con una llama en la bombilla. Stefan Krause, Germany (License: FAL 1.3)
Second place: National park "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains), Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine Balkhovitin (License: CC BY-SA 3.0)
Third place: A swallow (Hirundo rustica) drinking while flying over a swimming pool sanchezn (License: CC BY-SA 3.0)
First place: Dos abejarucos, en Ariège, Francia. La hembra (izquierda) espera el alimento que le dará el macho. Pierre Dalous (User:Kookaburra 81)
Second place: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr)
Third place: High-speed photography of a light bulb shot with an airsoft pistol (positioned right of the lamp). Stefan Krause, Germany (User:Ritchyblack)
First place: Vista del lago Bondhus en Noruega. Al fondo puede verse el glaciar Bondhus, como parte del glaciar Folgefonna. (POTD) Heinrich Pniok (Alchemist-hp / pse-mendelejew.de)
Second place: Autorretrato de Tracy Caldwell Dyson en el módulo Cúpula de la Estación Espacial Internacional observando la Tierra debajo durante la Expedición 24. (POTD) Tracy Caldwell Dyson (NASA)
Third place: La Cueva de los Verdes, en las Islas Canarias (España). Reflejo en el agua. (POTD) Luc Viatour (Lviatour)
Second place: El Stari Most, el ‘Puente Viejo’, que conecta las dos orillas del río Neretva, ha sido un símbolo de Mostar durante siglos. Esta vista desde el norte muestra la torre Helebija a la izquierda y la torre Tara a la derecha. Se obtuvo desde el minarete de la Mezquita Koski Mehmed Pasha. (POTD) – Credit: Trabajo propio by Ramirez. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Second place: Cascada Elakala en el Parque Estatal Blackwater Falls, Virginia Occidental, EE.UU. (POTD) – Credit: Forest Wander from Cross Lanes, USA. (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
Third place: La Guardia de Honor rusa da la bienvenida al almirante de la Armada estadounidense Mike Mullen, presidente del Estado Mayor Conjunto, durante una ceremonia en la Tumba del Soldado Desconocido en Moscú, Rusia, 26 de junio de 2009. (POTD) – Credit: MC1 Chad J. McNeeley. (PD US Navy)
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First place: Caballos en la montaña Bianditz. Detrás de ellos puede observarse la montaña Aiako Harria, parte de los Pirineos, en Guipúzcoa, España Mikel Ortega/Richard Bartz (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
Second place: Un tragafuegos del grupo Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band durante una exhibición en Chassepierre, Bélgica. Luc Viatour (CC-BY-SA-2.5, 2.0, 1.0)
Third place: Locomotoras de vapor de la Chicago & Northwestern Railway en un depósito en Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos en 1942. Jack Delano (PD-USGov)
First place: La Torre Broadway en Worcestershire, Inglaterra. Newton2 (CC-BY-2.5)
Second place: Vista aérea nocturna de la ciudad de Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Paulo Barcellos Jr. (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
Third place: Un ejemplar de ardilla roja (Sciurus vulgaris) en un parque de Düsseldorf, Alemania. Ray eye (CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
First place: Aurora polar sobre el Lago Bear, en la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Eielson, Alaska, Estados Unidos. Joshua Strang (Public domain)
Second place: Vagabundo en París Eric Pouhier (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Third place: Arrendajo azul (Cyanocitta cristata) en el Algonquin Provincial Park, Canadá. Mdf (GFDL)
Third place: Hoverflies mating in midair. Fir0002 (GFDL)
