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Commons Picture of the Year 2008

# 1 – 74 votes in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #1 – 260 votes in Round 1;
Horses on Bianditz mountain, Spain. Behind them Aya Peaks can be seen.
Credit: Mikel Ortega
Edited by Richard Bartz. .







# 2 – 71 votes in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #1 – 225 votes in Round 1;
Fire breathing "Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band" in Chassepierre, Belgium.
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.







# 3 – 46 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #1 – 170 votes in Round 1;
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards in 1942.
Credit: Jack Delano (photograph)
Durova (restoration) .







# 4 – 45 votes in Round 2;
Category - Nature views #3 – 167 votes in Round 1;
Crepuscular rays, taken at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Credit: Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.







# 5 – 35 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #3 – 153 votes in Round 1;
Hong Kong night skyline. Taken from Lugard Road at Victoria Peak.
Credit: Wikimedian Base64
Edited by CarolSpears.







# 6 – 30 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #2 – 169 votes in Round 1;
View over Paris, at dusk, from the Maine-Montparnasse tower.
Credit: Wikimedian Benh LIEU SONG.







# 7 – 27 votes in Round 2;
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #1 – 98 votes in Round 1;
Drawing of a revealing figure Sythatia with typical elements from manga and anime to illustrate the term ecchi.
Credit: Wikimedian Niabot.







# 8 – 19 votes in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #3 – 143 votes in Round 1;
Green turtle, Chelonia mydas, and his total internal reflection
Credit: Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.







# 8 – 19 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #2 – 142 votes in Round 1;
Animated Gif of a Cicada (Tibicen sp.) Molting. Taken by T. Nathan Mundhenk, in Centerville, Ohio USA July 30 2007. Each frame taken at 1 minute intervals. 30 minute gap in middle while cicada rested. The Cicada takes about 2 hours to complete the process.
Credit: Wikimedian T. Nathan Mundhenk
Edited by CarolSpears .







# 8 – 19 votes in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #2 – 129 votes in Round 1;
Destitute pea pickers in California, mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in the 1930s.
Credit: Dorothea Lange (photograph)
Durova (restoration) .







# 9 – 18 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #8 – 72 votes in Round 1;
Snipe fly (Rhagio scolopaceus)
Credit: Wikimedian Richard Bartz.







# 10 – 17 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #4 – 155 votes in Round 1;
Opera House of Paris, the Palais garnier's grand salon.
Credit: Wikimedian Eric Pouhier
Edited by Rainer Zenz, Niabot.







# 10 – 17 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #7 – 133 votes in Round 1;
Gordon Dam, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, Australia
Credit: Wikimedian Noodle snacks.







# 11 – 15 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #3 – 161 votes in Round 1;
A fire in Massueville, Quebec, Canada.
Credit: Wikimedian Sylvain Pedneault.







# 11 – 15 votes in Round 2;
Category - Nature views #1 – 184 votes in Round 1;
Arching fountain of a Pahoehoe approximately 10 m high issuing from the western end of the 0740 vents, a series of spatter cones 170 m long, south of Pu‘u Kahaualea. Episodes 2 and 3 were characterized by spatter and cinder cones, such as Pu‘u Halulu, which was 60 m high by episode 3.
Credit: J.D. Griggs
Edited by Mbz1 .







# 12 – 14 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #4 – 123 votes in Round 1;
Head of a fly (Caliphrodae)
Credit: Wikimedian Richard Bartz.







# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #3 – 127 votes in Round 1;
A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center (Text by U.S. Navy)
Credit: Preston Keres .







# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;
Category - Nature views #2 – 174 votes in Round 1;
Officially known as Mount John Laurie, Yamnuska is the popular name for this mountain in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Credit: Wikimedian Chuck Szmurlo.







# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;
Category - Nature views #4 – 141 votes in Round 1;
This image of an ice wall and the ocean floor at Explorer's Cover, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound is adjacent to remote-controlled photographic equipment. An underwater camera is connected by cable to onshore facilities, which upload images to the Internet via radio signals.

main visible species :
the antarctic scallop (Adamussium colbecki)
the common antarctic sea urchin (Sterechinus neumayeri)
a stalk-like bush sponge (Homaxinella balfourensis)
a brittlestar (Ophionotus victoriae)
seaspiders (Colossendeis sp.)

Credit: Steve Clabuesch
Edited by Lycaon .







# 14 – 12 votes in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #1 – 173 votes in Round 1;
Reflection in a soap bubble
Credit: Wikimedian Mila Zinkova
Edited by Alvesgaspar.







# 14 – 12 votes in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #4 – 106 votes in Round 1;
The Whirlpool Galaxy (Spiral Galaxy M51, NGC 5194) is a classic spiral galaxy located in the Canes Venatici constellation.
Credit: NASA and European Space Agency .







# 14 – 12 votes in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #2 – 150 votes in Round 1;
"Synchiropus splendidus" Mandarinfish in aquarium-Muséum Liège (Belgium)
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.







# 15 – 11 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #2 – 168 votes in Round 1;
Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire, France
Credit: Wikimedian Ra-smit
Edited by Caspian blue.







# 15 – 11 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #3 – 134 votes in Round 1;
Giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia) found at 1AM near a light bulb in Newport News, Virginia.
Credit: Wikimedian Kevincollins123.







# 16 – 10 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #2 – 106 votes in Round 1;
Wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus).
Credit: Wikimedian Martin Hirtreiter.







# 17 – 9 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #4 – 153 votes in Round 1;
The Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River.
Credit: Wikimedian Christian Mehlführer.







# 17 – 9 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #3 – 100 votes in Round 1;
A flower of Nelumbo nucifera at Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia
Credit: Wikimedian Peripitus.






File:Diving emperor penguin.jpg
# 17 – 9 votes in Round 2;
Category - Birds #2 – 116 votes in Round 1;
A Emperor Penguin dives into the water somewhere in Antarctica.
Credit: Glenn Grant .







# 17 – 9 votes in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #4 – 124 votes in Round 1;
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) M-198 155mm Howitzer gun crew of 4th Battalion, 14th Marines, Marines at Camp Fallujah, Iraq in support of Operation Phantom Fury."
Credit: Lance Corporal Samantha L. Jones .







# 18 – 8 votes in Round 2;
Category - Birds #3 – 96 votes in Round 1;
Blue Tit, (Cyanistes caeruleus) It's an image in "contre-jour" (against the light). The sun is lightening the front of the bird. I work with "raw" to lighten the darker parts of the "contre-jour"
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.







# 18 – 8 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #4 – 81 votes in Round 1;
Some European Larches (Larix decidua) at dusk on the Siusi alp, South Tyrol, Italy near the Sassolungo range
Credit: Wikimedian Llorenzi.







# 18 – 8 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #1 – 171 votes in Round 1;
Electron scan micrography of Aceria anthocoptes.

Original caption reads: "The Rust Mite (Aceria anthocoptes), a potential biological control agent of the weed, Canada Thistle. Magnified 1,400X. (LTSEM) Plate #26873. Courtesy, Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU."

Credit: Erbe, Pooley
Edited by Lycaon .







# 19 – 6 votes in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #4 – 132 votes in Round 1;
The Red-eyed Tree Frog (Litoria chloris) found in eastern Australia.
Credit: Wikimedian LiquidGhoul
Edited by Muhammad.







# 19 – 6 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #1 – 181 votes in Round 1;
Blasting of a chimney at the former Henninger brewery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sachsenhausen.
Credit: Wikimedian Heptagon.







# 20 – 5 votes in Round 2;
Category - Emblems & Diagrams #3 – 118 votes in Round 1;
Wrist and hand deeper palmar dissection
Credit: Wikimedian The Photographer.







# 20 – 5 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #5 – 152 votes in Round 1;
Escalators at a Copenhagen Metro station.
Credit: Stig Nygaard
Edited by Lycaon .







# 20 – 5 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #6 – 131 votes in Round 1;
Panorama of the mountains along the Ulvikfjord, a side arm of the Hardangerfjord in Western Norway.
Credit: Wikimedian Aqwis.







# 21 – 4 votes in Round 2;
Category - Emblems & Diagrams #1 – 133 votes in Round 1;
A 3D projection of a four-dimensional hypercube performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.
Credit: Wikimedian JasonHise.







# 21 – 4 votes in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #4 – 153 votes in Round 1;
A multi segment panoramic image of the London skyline from the Bermondsey banks of the Thames. Taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 70-200mm f/2.8L lens.
Credit: Wikimedian Diliff.







# 21 – 4 votes in Round 2;
Category - Birds #1 – 119 votes in Round 1;
Green Violet-ear, (Colibri thalassinus)
Credit: Wikimedian Mdf
Edited by Laitche.







# 22 – 3 votes in Round 2;
Category - Emblems & Diagrams #2 – 124 votes in Round 1;
Animation of a simple constant-velocity joint.
Credit: Wikimedian Pwld.







# 22 – 3 votes in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #3 – 117 votes in Round 1;
A pyrotechnics stunt exhibition by "Giant Auto Rodéo"
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.







# 22 – 3 votes in Round 2;
Category - Cities, architecture, constructions, and related #6 – 138 votes in Round 1;
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, features an acoustically superior auditorium paneled in hardwood.
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith .







# 22 – 3 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #4 – 81 votes in Round 1;
Dew on grass
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.







# 22 – 3 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #7 – 76 votes in Round 1;
Photograph of a female Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus en ) feeding on the nectar of the Mexican Sunflower . The picture was taken in Aston Township, Pennsylvania.
Credit: Wikimedian Derek Ramsey.







# 23 – 2 votes in Round 2;
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #2 – 90 votes in Round 1;
"Studies of Embryos" by Leonardo da Vinci (Pen over red chalk 1510-1513)
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour
(Original drawing: Leonardo da Vinci).







# 23 – 2 votes in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #2 – 127 votes in Round 1;
The tall ship Irving Johnson lies hard aground, only yards from shore, near the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, California, March 2005.
Credit: Mike Brodey
Edited by Massimo Catarinella .







# 23 – 2 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #5 – 91 votes in Round 1;
"Platycryptus undatus". A 9 millimeter-long female jumping spider found in Newport News, Virginia. The lens setup utilized was a Nikon 50mm f/1.4D reverse mounted on a Nikon 70-300mm f/4-5.6G . 13 images of variable focus were captured and composited in CombineZM, a focus stacking program.
Credit: Wikimedian Kevincollins123.







# 23 – 2 votes in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #6 – 87 votes in Round 1;
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper(Romalea microptera)
Credit: Wikimedian Tomfriedel.







# 24 – 1 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #1 – 108 votes in Round 1;
An Osteospermum en cultivar
Credit: Wikimedian Derek Ramsey.







# 24 – 1 votes in Round 2;
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #3 – 86 votes in Round 1;
The Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Credit: Johannes Vermeer (painter) .