Category: Contests

Places Honorable Mention In Japan, ancestral spirits come back to their families in mid-August every year. People gives repose to the ancestors’ spirits for three days and send them back to where they came from by putting them on lanterns to drift down river. Ms. Setsuko Sugino took this picture of a small girl praying… Continue reading National Geographic 2008 International Photography Contest Winners

Overall winner: Steve Winter (United States of America) Snowstorm leopard ‘After 10 months and a winter with little snow in Ladakh’s Hemis High Altitude National Park, India, I was running out of hope of getting the picture I wanted. But one freezing morning I checked my remote-controlled camera and found a snow leopard had triggered… Continue reading Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008