Big Picture Picks from National Geographic's Photo Contest 2010

[shuttertalk]

The Boston Globe's The Big Picture is doing its usual thing again, this time picking 47 images from the numerous entries to National Geographic's Photography Contest for 2010. The photos were selected from the People, Places and Nature categories, and captions were written by the individual photographers

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11...ograp.html

My favourites were:

#6 - Liquid planet - love the unusual perspective... could just stare at that for ages.

#10 - The patterns of the trees and juxtaposition is just stunning

#33 - Amazing shot of the monastery - the light is just spectacular

#35 - Again, the use of beautiful light streaming down just frames this photo spectacularly

#44 - Amazing richness in the colours

Which ones take your fancy?

[Toad]

#2 - hard to miss with a subject like that

#6 - good call, Jules

#17 - dreamlike / wonderful light

#29 - just works on many levels

#31 - Wonderful - I wish I had thought of that

#35 - again, we agree

#39 - an amazing capture - but my spidey sense (PhotoShop mode) is tingling on this one...

#41 - very cool

#43 and #46 - very poignant

[Wedding Shooter]

5, 10, 20, 24, 28, 33, 39 (have to agree with Toad), 41.