Breath-taking pictures

Just like what's written in the email that I was forwarded with these pictures, they are "just too good not to share". It's such an inspiration! I do dream of travelling to such beautiful places and take such super  fabulous shots! :)

16,000 photographs submitted from 130 countries entered National Geographic Photographs Contest 2010. Some favourites were extracted for publishing.  Scroll down to view the winning photograph.  Unexpected danger in Kanana Camp, Botswana Exquisite Snow Weasel, Minnesota USA Oia Santorini, Greece Piraputanga fish in Sucuri river, Brazil The Louvre, Paris The Pyramids, Egypt Al-Saleh Mosque, Yemen Praying Mantis in Disguise Thunderstorm in Montana, USA A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Alone in the Forest River Bank in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province, China Mountain fog Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick Heavy load - little fly on a small white flower Great Blue Heron with Meal Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia - Playing with roosters Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada Mount Everest climber

Warminster, England

Feeding Koi fish at Windows of the World, Shenzhen, China

Oasis

Bee, purple flower

Czech Republic

the Angolan Plateau

Buddhist Monastery of Ki, Himalayas

Grand Prize Winner of 2010
National Geographic Contest

Eruption of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia
Winning photo taken by Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore
Contest judge Joel Sartore said, “This image best represented the craft of photography.

Honourable Mention