

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.











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# 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 .













# 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 - 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.









