55,000+ Photographs Can't Be Wrong

I've resigned to myself that I will finally do what I've needed to do for a while now and that is to enter photography or photographic essay contests. I just missed entering the BBC UK Website contest. Here are some of the amazing winners. We'll start off with my favorite shown here.

Perhaps it is because it was taken in Hokkaido, Japan in early February. Martin Eisenhawer was a german tourist that settled at the edge of the water and waited as the swans landed over the warm hot springs bubbling up out of the thermal lake.

This shot won Italian Manuel Presti the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005 award. It is of a swirling flock of starlings as a peregrine falcon moves in. He was using two cameras that day above a city park in Rome. One with a wide lens and one for more closer shots.

And finally Martyn Colbeck, from the UK, took this pic of elephants in front of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro more than 25 miles behind. It reminds me a lot of Mount Fuji.