O ano de 2009 já lá vai, e em Março de 2010 já estamos, mas nunca é tarde para relembrar quem foram os vencedores do Concurso Internacional de Fotografia da National Geographic.
São verdadeiras pérolas as próximas fotos que vos temos para mostrar, mas antes demais saudemos também o facto de por aqui já termos postado os vencedores também de outro concurso protagonizado pela National Geographic; Os melhores wallpapers de 2009. Cliquem e façam o download de todos wallpapers em excelente qualidade. Se os links estiverem indisponíveis, comentem o tópico e relatem-nos esse facto!
Mas voltando ao tópico inicial, o que podemos dizer sobre os vencedores deste ano de este mais que badalado concurso pelos media? Quando à qualidade de cada vencedor nada temos a contestar e difícil o seria tal é a quantidade de fotografias enviadas, que chegaram perto das 200 000 submissões, dificultando e muito a decisão do júri. E por esse facto é que todos os anos além do vencedor, temos os lugares com menção honrosa. E se entre este lugar especial e o vencedor, a opção por um deles é complicado, faço ideia a escolha perante tão belas fotos que todos os anos chegam à National Geographic!
A 97-year-old woman waits for the bus in her Sunday best in Chamblee, Georgia.
The picture was shot at San Juan de los Remedios, Cuba, during a local celebration called “Las Parrandas” in which the highlight is fireworks. Here children light the fireworks and escape.
"Facing the Almighty”
Licancabur volcano is located on the border between Chile and Bolivia.
I was spending the fourth of July back in Nebraska, in the farmhouse where I grew up, and there were more fireflies that summer than I'd ever seen. I went out to the dirt road behind the house and shot this using a long exposure, just after sunset.
Driven by his great passion for landscaping, the photographer went out to the countryside as soon as he saw it was snowing. Driving around the region of Veneto, he found this abandoned train station at Feltre and was fascinated by its melancholic feel.
This peppermint shrimp is spending the day in a branching vase sponge about 75 feet deep in Bonaire's Margate Bay. Lighting was achieved with an HID torch shining on the outside of the sponge. The photographer, working upside down, had to carefully control buoyancy while approaching as close as possible, taking care not to touch the sponge with camera or light and to avoid disturbing the shrimp or the sponge.
The picture was taken in the Mala Mala Game reserve in South Africa: A young leopard cub was lounging alone on a tree when, suddenly, a male adult leopard arrived and attacked it. The cub tried to escape by jumping to another tree, but the branches were so dry that he fell to the ground. Slightly injured from the bite of the adult, the cub escaped running. Amirante was on a safari jeep when the cub fell about one meter from him.
A manatee photographed in Florida
