Inside LSD-Full Length Documentary. 03-national-parks-1600.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600 × 1200 pixels) - Scaled (57%) Killer Cone Snails. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus. National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30.
For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Best Pictures: Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners, 2011. Photograph by Shikhei Goh To capture the photo, photographer Shikhei Goh took advantage of "superb lighting" and a friend spraying water on the dragonfly to simulate rain. (See more dragonfly pictures .) Interactive. The World of Seven Billion The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities.
Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). Some nations— like economic powerhouses China and India—have an especially wide range of incomes.