From fighting tigers and leaping
wildebeest to incredible urban snapshots: National Geographic readers' best
photographs
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The winners and honourable
mentions from National Geographic Reader's Photos of the year competition
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More than 9,200 entries came from
over 150 countries for the contest covering people, places and nature
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Grand prize went to Hong Kong's
Brian Yen for his shot of a woman on a crowded train
On a crowded Hong Kong train yet
seemingly so alone, a young woman's face is illuminated by the glow of her
smartphone - this is the image judged the year's best and grand prize winner in National
Geographic Readers' Photos of the Year competition.
The image entitled A Node Glows
in the Dark, shot by Brian Yen of Hong Kong, beat more than 9,200 other entries
which include stunning images of wildlife, natural phenomena and snapshots of
unique cultures to the US$10,000 (£6,400) top prize.
Submissions were made from over
150 countries with their subject matter just as diverse, capturing a vast array
of the earth's rich tapestry across three categories - people, places and
nature.
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The National Geographic Readers'
Photos of the year Grand Prize winning photograph from Brian Yen is
a single image statement on technology, modern life and how advances have
impacted our lives. Yen said of his successful entry: 'She's a node flickering
on the social web, roaming the Earth, free as a butterfly. Our existence is no
longer stuck to the physical here; we're free to run away, and run we will'
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A wildebeest jumps off a steep
ledge at the Mara River in Tanzania's North Serengeti Nicole
Cambre's shot, which won the Nature category
A shot of mist rising from Budapest's thermal spas at night by
Tristan Yeo claimed the places honour while the premier nature image, by Nicole
Cambre, features a wildebeest jumping off a steep ledge at the Mara River in
Tanzania's North Serengeti.
Yet the winner came from a
distinctly urban setting.
'I feel a certain contradiction
when I look at the picture,' said Yen. “On the one hand, I feel the liberating
gift of technology. On the other hand, I feel people don’t even try to be
neighborly anymore, because they don’t have to.'
Scroll down for more incredible
images, including the winners and those given honourable mentions by judges
including National Geographic photographers John Stanmeyer and Erika Larsen,
and the company's general manager of digital, Keith Jenkins.
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A stirring image from Sergey
Ponomarev as bird fly over the destroyed houses in
Khalidiya district in Homs, Syria
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This apparently 'playful fight',
says its photographer Archna
Singh, lasted between four and five seconds in Bandhavgarh
National Park, India
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Nick
Riley immortalised these 'seekers of eternal youth' as they
smear themselves with mud from the Dead Sea in Israel
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In the world's largest inactive
volcanic caldera, Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, Zik Teo captures
four peaceful zebras for the nature category
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An honourable mention winner in
the people category is this moving shot of an elderly man deep in thought while
his wife prepares bread to be blessed for the orthodox Eucharist, while their
cat lay on the bed, by Roberto
Fiore. It was taken in the village of Sarbi in Romania
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A spectacular still of a wild
short eared owl in full flight by Henrik
Nilsson, who says the bird was keeping an eye out for Northern
harriers which can often attempt to steal a kill from owls in Boundary Bay in
British Columbia, Canada
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A stag deer belows amidst the
autumnal colours of London's Richmond Park in this painting-like shot from Prashant
Meswani
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Ice art on a window in the
small northern Estonian borough of Tabasalu by Maie
Kirnmann was an honourable mention in the nature category
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A boardwalk amphitheatre it his
by waves and a storm while Aytul
Akbas took this photo of his nephew in Kocaeli, Turkey
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An incredible 'living frame'
forms for Christian
Miller in the Great Barrier Reef as a Napoleon Wrasse swims
through a school of glass fish
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Tyler G says
he his friends 'argued consistently' on a road trip to Miami but you wouldn't
know it from this taken on the Blue Ridge Parkway
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The chief of Ramnami people in
Chhattisgarh, India, displays extensive tattoos of the name of their god in
this photo from Mattia
Passarini
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A poignant image of diabled
children in war-torn Syria by Abdullah
Alghajar got an honourable mention in Nat Geo's people
category
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Peter
Franc got off at the wrong station early in the morning in
Tokyo and took refuge in a coffee shop looking over this river of people
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K
Little photographed this little girl in discussion with a
doll in a plastic box in Paris, France. She admits the image is 'not inherently
beautiful' until it's accented by a 'slice of light'. Little says: 'It looks
like a bubble invented to dream in an imaginative world.'
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An all-mighty temper tantrum in a
Bangkok shopping mall by Adam
Birkan was another honourable mention in the people
category
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The places winner by Triston
Yeo is a 'surreal and mystical' image of the thermal spas
in Budapest, a popular activity for Hungarians in winter
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