Outdoor Scenes—Week 10 Gallery
Browse our editors' favorite submissions to the photo contest.
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- First rays for the day
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- First rays for the day
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- The serenity of the lake below versus the roaring waterfalls above.
Photo and caption by Ju Shen Lee
Location: Lake Tahoe, California
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Great place to contemplate
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- Great place to contemplate
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- While hiking, my boyfriend and I found the best place to just sit and take in the beauty of our surroundings.
Photo and caption by samantha schwann
Location: Coyote Buttes, Arizona, United States
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- After the storm
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- After the storm
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- This scene after a thunder and lightning storm on the way to the Grand Canyon was even more spectacular in our eyes than the Canyon itself that day. I did not change the colours of the image, this was how nature presented itself to us.
Photo and caption by Monika Pongratz
Location: Near the Grand Canyon, on the way to the North Rim, United States
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Second Place Winner: My Balloon
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- Second Place Winner: My Balloon
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- H'mong children play with their balloons on a foggy day in Moc Chau, Son La province, Vietnam; photographed January 2012. National Geographic contributing photographer Alexandra Avakian, one of this year's judges, shares her thoughts on the second place winner: This picture is like a dream, and it’s timeless not only because it’s black and white and there’s no sense of modernity, but also because it depicts an activity that children everywhere on the planet do with balloons. The fog and soft background make it feel like a memory. It’s every bit as good as the photographs in the seminal black-and-white photo book, "The Family of Man." Sometimes the best scenes to shoot are not in the obvious places for travelers but can be found anywhere from a far-flung location—such as this remote Hmong village—to just the around the corner from a big event.
Photo and caption by Vo Anh Kiet
Location: Moc Chau, Son La province, Vietnam
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Ship in the Distance
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- Ship in the Distance
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- A ship approaches in the Bering Sea. They are coming to unload their catch of pollock to the mothership. The cold air steams in the even colder air. Seagulls and Northern Fulmars follow behind the ships while they process the fish.
Photo and caption by Jennifer Padilla
Location: Bering Sea, Alaska
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Lone Taco
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- Lone Taco
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- After checking out a luche libre fight in Mexico City, what else to do but eat some classic, delicious tacos. Mexican street stands, best food in the world.
Photo and caption by Amy Croucher
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- The Flirt
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- The Flirt
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- Caught these two flirting grape vines in Napa Valley California one early misty morning. One vine with it's "finger" curled up like a seductress saying, come over to my row. The other vine reaches out to comply.
Photo and caption by Brian Yen
Location: Napa, California, USA
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- The perfect Waterfall
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- The perfect Waterfall
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- Huang Xi - thats how this waterfall is callled. It`s 50 km away from Luang Prabang, Laos. I arrived early in the morning long before the first tourist set a foot into the crystal clear water. So many cascades where the water runs above. But you have to pick the right time in the year. Summertime when the waterlevel is low it`s a good time. A saw a lot of different waterfalls but this one was one of the best.
Photo and caption by Thomas Hagenau
Location: Huang Xi, Luang Prabang, Laos
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Arctic Night
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- Arctic Night
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- 200 km above the arctic circle the Aurora Sky Station poses against the backdrop of a magical night landscape illuminated by the moon. I spent a freezing January night outside at -25° C (-13° F) shooting northern lights, when this scene caught my eye.
Photo and caption by Marcus Haid
Location: Abisko, Sweden
Category: Outdoor Scenes
