The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 competition is now over and the winner has been selected. In the final 712 Wikimedians voted, of which 74 voted for the winner, Horses on Bianditz mountain. With 71 votes Fire breathing takes the second place. The third place is for Steam locomotives in the roundhouse with 46 votes.
Wikimedia Commons “Beeld van die jaar” 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;
'n Vuurblaser van die "Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band" in Chassepierre, België
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
# 3 – 46 votes in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #1 – 170 votes in Round 1;
Stoomlokomotiewe van die Chicago and North Western Railway in die lokomotiefloods van die rangeerwerf van die Amerikaanse stad Chicago in 1942
Credit: Jack Delano (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
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;
Florence Owens Thompson, die 32-jarige moeder van sewe kinders, is die onderwerp van die foto Migrantemoeder (Dorothea Lange, 1936), 'n toonbeeld van die Amerikaanse Groot Depressie
Credit: Dorothy Lange (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
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)
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.
Bloumees, Cyanistes caeruleus, afgeneem "contre-jour", d.w.s. teen die lig
Credit: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
# 18 – 8 votes in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #4 – 81 votes in Round 1;
Europese lorke, Larix decidua, naby die Sassolungobergreeks, afgeëts teen die skemerlig van die Siusialpe, Suid-Tirool, Italië
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.
# 19 – 6 votes in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #4 – 132 votes in Round 1;
Die Rooioogboompadda, Litoria chloris, is inheems aan oostelike Australië.
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.
Projeksie in driedimensionale ruimte van 'n vierdimensionale hiperkubus, roterend om ortogonale vlakke wat die objek verdeel van voor-links na agter-regs en van bo na onder. Die resultaat, 'n tesserak, 8-sel of reëlmatige oktakoron, is die voorstelling deur projeksie van die vierdimensionale analoog van 'n kubus.
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.
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: Luc Viatour (Author: 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.
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