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Announcing the FINALISTS of the 15th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest! This year, we received 48,000 submissions from photographers in 155 countries and territories. From dynamic portraits to breathtaking landscapes, these 60 images stood out to our photo editors as the most unique and memorable.
Voting for the Readers’ Choice winner is now open!Come back each day to vote for YOUR favorite finalists. Voting is limited to one vote per user per day and runs through 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on March 26. We will announce the Grand Prize, Readers’ Choice and category winners as well as open up our 16th Annual Photo Contest on Tuesday, March 27.
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Photo of the Day: Lera
Photographer caption: A series of portraits of young women. In this series, I try to show the beauty, fragility of girls in growing up.
Photo by Evgeny Matveev (St. Petersburg, Russia); St. Petersburg, Russia
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Photo: Gwich'in Sisters
Photographer caption: Sisters, Cora and Lillian, participated in a traditional dance performance during the 2016 Gwich'in Gathering in Arctic Village, Alaska.
Photo by Allison Minto (Kew Gardens, New York, USA): Arctic Village, Alaska, USA
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Photo of the Day: Konduki
Photographer caption: Aerial photo. The middle of Russia, Tula region, near Konduki village. Among plains, cornfields and copses lies the abandoned Ushakovsky coal cut. During the Soviet era lignite was mined there, but in the 90s mining was closed due to unprofitability. Now 50-meter-high clay hills are overgrown with birches and aspens, forming a landscape very unusual for this region.
Photo by Alexey Kharitonov (Moscow, Russia); Konduki, Tula region, Russia
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Photo of the Day: A Belgian Angel
Photographer caption: A man is going home after attending the Meyboom festival in Brussels.
Photo by Alain Schroeder (Brussels, Belgium); Brussels, Belgium
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Photo of the Day: Joy
Photographer caption: Seal pup enjoying the morning breeze on Dune Island in Germany
Photo by Erika Valkovicova (Prague, Czech Republic); Dune Island, Germany
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Photo of the Day: Salt Field Workers
Photographer caption: These are women who work in a salt field in Vietnam. I altered the image to black and white and made the background black to emphasize the women.
Photo by Matty Karp (Haifa, Israel); Vietnam
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Photo: Green
Photographer caption: A vendor at a fun fair in The Meadows, Edinburgh
Photo by Gareth Bragdon (Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Edinburgh, Scotland
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Photo of the Day: Orphans
Photographer caption: Orphans line up beneath images of the leaders in Nampo, North Korea. Image drawn from a long-term project on the DPRK (North Korea) depicting less commonly shown aspects of daily life.
Photo by Fabian Muir (Sydney, Australia); Nampo, North Korea
Our 15th Annual Photo Contest is now closed. We’ll announce the 60 finalists in March 2018!
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Just TWO DAYS left to enter the 15th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest!
Submit by your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 pm EST >>
Photo of the Day: Throwing Colors
Photo by Hira Punjabi (Thane, India); Mathura, India
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Photo of the Day: The Window
Photo by Salvador Colvée Nebot (Denia, Spain); Costa Rica
The deadline to enter to our 15th Annual Photo Contest is fast approaching! Submit your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 PM EST.
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Photo: Untitled
Photographer caption: "I can cry in front of them, I can tell them my secrets. I buy them things and they calm me down. I just feel comfortable around them,” says twenty-six year old Lisa Schalm as she poses for a portrait inside of her bedroom in Brockport, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 2017. Lisa suffers from depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder and said that these reborn dolls are the only solution to help calm her symptoms. A reborn doll is a manufactured skin doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.”
Photo by Brittainy Newman (New York, New York, USA); Brockport, New York, USA
The deadline to enter to our 15th Annual Photo Contest is fast approaching! Submit your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 PM EST.
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Do you have what it takes to capture a prize-winning shot? Enter Smithsonian.com’s 15th Annual Photo Contest for the chance to win up to $2,500!
We’re looking for outstanding entries in the follow categories: Natural World, The American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images and Mobile.
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Submit your best shots to our 15th Annual Photo Contest, open now! Deadline: November 30.
Photo: Playing in the Alley
Category: Mobile
Photo by Kaveh Zakariaei Nejad (Sanandaj, Iran); Sanandaj, Iran
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Photo of the Day: Array
Photographer caption: Temple celebrations are most representative of Taiwan’s traditional culture. Face painting symbolizes the gods, and when a god possesses a person, they are not afraid of firecrackers.
Photo by Rossi Fang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan); Taiwan
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Photo: Cycle
Photo by Elena Petrova (Moscow, Russia); Baku, Azerbaijan
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Photo: A Woman in a Sea of Saris
Photo by Callie Chee (Cronulla, Australia); Rajasthan, India
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Photo: Seahorse
Photo by Alex Varani (Imola, Italy); Indonesia
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Photo of the Day: Chinese Opera
Photographer caption: This shot was taken in the back of a theater in Penang, Malaysia. This person was practicing expression in front of the mirror.
Photo by Zilong Qin (Sugerland, Texas); Penang, Malaysia
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