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.
Commons Afbeelding van het jaar 2008
# 1 – 74 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #1 – 260 stemmen in Round 1;
Paarden op de berg Bianditz (840 meter) in de Spaanse autonome gemeenschap Baskenland. Op de achtergrond is de berg Aiako Harria (837 meter) zichtbaar.
Door Mikel Ortega Edited by Richard Bartz. .
# 2 – 71 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #1 – 225 stemmen in Round 1;
Een vuurspuwer van de 'Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band' tijdens een voorstelling in het Belgische dorpje Chassepierre.
Door Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
# 3 – 46 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #1 – 170 stemmen in Round 1;
Stoomlocomotieven van de Chicago and North Western Railway in de locomotiefloods van het rangeerterrein van de Amerikaanse stad Chicago in 1942
Door Jack Delano (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
Wolkenstralen bij het Stow Lake in het Golden Gate Park van de Amerikaanse stad San Francisco
Door Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.
# 5 – 35 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #3 – 153 stemmen in Round 1;
stedelijk silhouet van nl:Hongkong gezien vanaf de Lugard Road op de Victoria Peak
Door Wikimedian Base64.
# 6 – 30 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #2 – 169 stemmen in Round 1;
Gezicht op Parijs in de schemering vanaf de Tour Montparnasse
Door Wikimedian Benh LIEU SONG.
# 7 – 27 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #1 – 98 stemmen in Round 1;
Drawing of a revealing figure Sythatia with typical elements from manga and anime to illustrate the term ecchi.
Door Wikimedian Niabot.
# 8 – 19 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #3 – 143 stemmen in Round 1;
soepschildpad (Chelonia mydas) en zijn weerspiegeling aan het wateroppervlak
Door Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.
# 8 – 19 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #2 – 142 stemmen 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.
Door Wikimedian T. Nathan Mundhenk Edited by CarolSpears.
# 8 – 19 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #2 – 129 stemmen in Round 1;
Florence Owens Thompson, de 32-jarige moeder van zeven kinderen, die het onderwerp vormt van de foto Migrantenmoeder (Dorothea Lange, 1936), een toonbeeld van de Amerikaanse Grote Depressie
Door Dorothy Lange (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
# 9 – 18 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #8 – 72 stemmen in Round 1;
snavelvlieg (Rhagio scolopaceus)
Door Wikimedian Richard Bartz.
# 10 – 17 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #4 – 155 stemmen in Round 1;
De grand foyer van de Opéra Garnier, het operagebouw van Parijs
Door Wikimedian Eric Pouhier Edited by Rainer Zenz, Niabot.
# 10 – 17 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #7 – 133 stemmen in Round 1;
De Gordondam in het nationaal park Southwest van het Australische eiland Tasmanië
Door Wikimedian Noodle snacks.
# 11 – 15 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #3 – 161 stemmen in Round 1;
Brand in een gebouw in het dorp Massueville in de Canadese provincie Québec
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.
Door J.D. Griggs Edited by Mbz1.
# 12 – 14 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #4 – 123 stemmen in Round 1;
kop van een vlieg uit de familie van de brom- en keizervliegen (Calliphoridae)
Door Wikimedian Richard Bartz.
# 13 – 13 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #3 – 127 stemmen 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.
Category - Plants and fungi #4 – 81 stemmen in Round 1;
Twee Europese lorken bij dageraad op de Seiser Alm, de grootste bergweide van Europa in de autonome Italiaanse regio (Bozen-)Zuid-Tirol, nabij het bergmassief Sassolungo.
Door Wikimedian Llorenzi.
# 18 – 8 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #1 – 171 stemmen 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."
Door Erbe, Pooley.
# 19 – 6 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #4 – 132 stemmen in Round 1;
Litoria chloris, een boomkikkersoort uit Oost-Australië
Door Wikimedian LiquidGhoul Edited by Muhammad .
# 19 – 6 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #1 – 181 stemmen in Round 1;
Blasting of a chimney at the former Henninger brewery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sachsenhausen.
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.
Door Wikimedian JasonHise.
# 21 – 4 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #4 – 153 stemmen 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.
Door Wikimedian Diliff.
# 21 – 4 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Birds #1 – 119 stemmen in Round 1;
Een groene violetoorkolibrie (Colibri thalassinus)
Polski: Uszatek zielony (Colibri thalassinus), Finca Lerida, rejon Boquete, Panama.
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #2 – 90 stemmen in Round 1;
Tekening van een foetus in een baarmoeder van Leonardo da Vinci (ca. 1510 tot 1513)
Door Luc Viatour (Author: Leonardo da Vinci).
# 23 – 2 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #2 – 127 stemmen 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.
Door Mike Brodey Edited by Massimo Catarinella.
# 23 – 2 stemmen in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #5 – 91 stemmen 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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