National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest — 2014

The 26th Annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2014 is in full swing. Applications for participation in it will be accepted until June 30, 2014. The winner will receive as a reward an 8-day expedition for two to Alaska. We believe it will be difficult for them to choose a winner, since the works already presented by the participants are stunningly beautiful. We suggest you to look at a small selection of photos of applicants.

1. One of the local guys near an ice cave in the southeast of Iceland. (Photo: Marcelo Castro / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

2. Sometimes bats are beautiful. Tiny bats are barely visible on the leaves in the rainforest in Costa Rica. (Photo: Brendene Barkley / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

3. Monument Valley, Arizona. (Photo: Jared Marshall / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

4. Touch before sunrise. An eagle lands on an ice floe on the Shiretoko Peninsula in the east of Hokkaido Island, Japan. (Photo: Hidetoshi Kikuchi / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

5. A sandstorm in the Sahara desert. (Photo: Alexey Kharitonov / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

6. The high cliffs of Svalbard. (Photo: Stuart Chape / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

7. Silhouette of a lioness on a mountain range in the Serengeti, in Tanzania. (Photo: James Kobacker / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

8. Lightning after dark in the Grand Canyon. (Photo: Scott Stulberg / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

9. Mount Kirkjufel and the Northern Lights in Iceland. (Photo: Nicholas Roemmelt / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

10. At sunset, men hunt frogs on rice terraces in the Chinese province of Yunnan. (Photo: Shawn Talbot / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

11. A small fishing village in Norway. (Photo: Adrian Ritz / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

12. A young monk found the perfect light source to read a book. (Photo: Marcelo Castro / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

13. Common Grackle in Lawrence County, Illinois. (Photo: Ryan Roush / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

14. Vermilion Cliffs National Nature Reserve, Arizona. (Photo: Nicholas Roemmelt / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

15. A little Nenets in Siberia is playing in a 30-degree frost. (Photo: Simon Morris / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

16. Green lake in the municipality of Trages in Austria. During the spring snowmelt, the lake level rises about 10 meters, filling the space in a short time. (Photo: Marc Henauer / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

17. Lighthouse off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. (Photo: Enrico Puddu / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

18. Swamp owl in a nature reserve in Kuwait. (Photo: Mohd Khorshid / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

19. Northern Lights in Iceland. (Photo: Craig Tissot / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

20. The ship Queen Mary-2 is the largest ocean liner in the world, its captain in honor of the 10th anniversary of the ship presented a fresh look at its size and majesty. (Photo: James Morgan / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

21. Green Pond in Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo: Kent Shiraishi / National Geographic Photo Contest)

22. Salar de Uyuni is a dried—up salt lake located in the south of the Altiplano desert plain in Bolivia. (Photo: Takashi Nakagawa / National Geographic Photo Contest)

23. A small child feeds pigeons at Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo: Olivier Fox / National Geographic Photo Contest)

24. Two Vietnamese ladies go home to Mui Ne Phan Thiet, Vietnam. (Photo: Ng Yeow Kee / National Geographic Photo Contest)

25. The author of the photo: "This dog appeared out of nowhere and followed us during our entire week-long hike in the Himalayas. He always slept in front of the tent, guarding us at night. One day I decided to get up at 4 in the morning to climb the 5-thousandth peak and meet the dawn there — the dog also kept me company. For half an hour he sat in this place and looked at the view from the top." Ladakh, India. (Photo: Sebastian Wahlhuetter / National Geographic Photo Contest)