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.
Årets Bild 2008
# 1 – 74 röster in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #1 – 260 röster in Round 1;
Hästar (Equus caballus) på berget Bianditz i Spanien.
Fotograf: Mikel Ortega Edited by Richard Bartz. .
# 2 – 71 röster in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #1 – 225 röster in Round 1;
En eldsprutare i gruppen Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band vid en föreställning i Chassepierre i Belgien.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
# 3 – 46 röster in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #1 – 170 röster in Round 1;
Ånglok från Chicago & Northwestern Railway i ett lokstall i Chicago 1942.
Fotograf: Jack Delano (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
Strålande atmosfäriska fenomen vid Stow Lake i Golden Gate Park i San Francisco.
Türkçe: Alacakaranlık ışınları - San Francisco, Golden Gate Parkındaki Stow Gölü.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.
# 5 – 35 röster in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #3 – 153 röster in Round 1;
Hong Kong night skyline. Taken from Lugard Road at Victoria Peak.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Base64.
# 6 – 30 röster in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #2 – 169 röster in Round 1;
Utsikt över Paris från Montparnassetornet vid skymningen.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Benh LIEU SONG.
# 7 – 27 röster in Round 2;
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #1 – 98 röster in Round 1;
Drawing of a revealing figure Sythatia with typical elements from manga and anime to illustrate the term ecchi.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Niabot.
# 8 – 19 röster in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #3 – 143 röster in Round 1;
En grön havssköldpadda (Chelonia mydas)
Українська: Зелена черепаха (Chelonia mydas) та її відображення
Fotograf: Wikimedian Mila Zinkova.
# 8 – 19 röster in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #2 – 142 röster 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.
Fotograf: Wikimedian T. Nathan Mundhenk Edited by CarolSpears.
# 8 – 19 röster in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #2 – 129 röster in Round 1;
Migrant Mother av Dorothea Lange, ett porträtt av en fattig kvinna i Kalifornien under depressionen i USA på 1930-talet.
Fotograf: Dorothy Lange (photograph) Durova (restoration) .
# 9 – 18 röster in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #8 – 72 röster in Round 1;
En snäppfluga av arten Rhagio scolopaceus.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Richard Bartz.
# 10 – 17 röster in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #4 – 155 röster in Round 1;
Stora foajén i Opéra Garnier i Paris.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Eric Pouhier Edited by Rainer Zenz, Niabot.
# 10 – 17 röster in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #7 – 133 röster in Round 1;
Gordon Dam, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, Australia
Fotograf: Wikimedian Noodle snacks.
# 11 – 15 röster in Round 2;
Category - Constructions #3 – 161 röster in Round 1;
Ett brinnande hus i Massueville i Quebec i Kanada.
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.
Fotograf: J.D. Griggs Edited by Mbz1.
# 12 – 14 röster in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #4 – 123 röster in Round 1;
Huvudet på en spyfluga.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Richard Bartz.
# 13 – 13 röster in Round 2;
Category - People and human activities #3 – 127 röster 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.
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"
Fotograf: Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
# 18 – 8 röster in Round 2;
Category - Plants and fungi #4 – 81 röster in Round 1;
Some European Larches (Larix decidua) at dusk on the Siusi alp, South Tyrol, Italy near the Sassolungo range
Fotograf: Wikimedian Llorenzi.
# 18 – 8 röster in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #1 – 171 röster 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."
Fotograf: Erbe, Pooley.
# 19 – 6 röster in Round 2;
Category - Other animals #4 – 132 röster in Round 1;
En lövgroda av arten Litoria chloris i östra Australien.
Fotograf: Wikimedian LiquidGhoul Edited by Muhammad .
# 19 – 6 röster in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #1 – 181 röster 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.
Fotograf: Wikimedian JasonHise.
# 21 – 4 röster in Round 2;
Category - Panoramas #4 – 153 röster 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.
Fotograf: Wikimedian Diliff.
# 21 – 4 röster in Round 2;
Category - Birds #1 – 119 röster in Round 1;
En grön öronkolibri (Colibri thalassinus) i Panama.
Category - Non-photographic art and historic maps #2 – 90 röster in Round 1;
Studie av ett embryo av Leonardo da Vinci, ca 1510-13.
Fotograf: Luc Viatour (Author: Leonardo da Vinci).
# 23 – 2 röster in Round 2;
Category - Objects and outer space #2 – 127 röster 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.
Fotograf: Mike Brodey Edited by Massimo Catarinella.
# 23 – 2 röster in Round 2;
Category - Arthropods #5 – 91 röster 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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