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Competition Winners: 2016 Annual Projected (2016-11-09)

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Pictorial Color (28)

Playing as a amazon warrior ... and its crooked, too. A little girl is enjoying the swing A girl doing her summer homework near by the window Hole in the Wall Cellblock 17 The Bay Bridge on a Clear Night Looking Up El Arco, Cabo San Lucas Twilight Cruise Ship and Bridge Snoqualmie Falls is one of Washington state's most popular attrachations Trillium Falls Redwoods and Rhododendrons Sunset on Shipwreck Downtown San Francisco Fun At The Beach Up, Up, and Away! Preparing for Takeoff Cascading flow Blue waterfall Crossing the Mara River Crest Port of Oakland at Sunset Passageway on the Grounds of the Taj Majal Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Clay Pots at Iglesia San Francisco (former convent), Lima, Peru Early Morning Leaders in Bay to Breakers Race

Pictorial Monochrome (25)

Big Sur in Smoke and Fog Hooks Arches Hotel Love in Cozumel, Mexico Weeping Willow Footballs Skillfully A Sudanese Woman Small Dog Big Attitude View from Point Bonito My Old Dear Friend Willamette River and Downtown Portland The Barista MaCloud Falls A Sultry Look Ready To Fly Old Pier in Bodega Bay, CA Full cascading Upper Yosemite Falls Up Hill View On Hillcrest Blvd. Code of Chrome Russian River Fog Sand Still Water Tanks - Mendocino Point Pinos Lighthouse B17 Nose Gunnary Compartment

Creative (15)

Vegas From the Pupil of the Eye Ex Machina Bare Ghostly Flowers Splash Did You See That Me and my shadow The Blues Polychrome Surfer's Nightmare first use of silicon chip for family portrait Like a tapestry Heat Wave Meatball Moon

Nature (14)

Two Bull Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) rear up on their foreflippers and fight for dominance. A Snowy egret (Egretta thula) chooses a branch to build its nest A small garden snail (Helix aspersa) eats the tender new petals of a Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) Young Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaengliae) Breaching Maui Galapagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) Swallows Large Fish Whole Head First Male Elephant Seals(mirounga augustirostris) battling for breeding rights, Peidras Blancas rookery. Alpha bulls battle for breeding rights Piedras Blancas Rookery Cambria CA Red Tail Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) strips a pigeon (Columbidae) of its feathers prior to eating it. Ladybugs(Coccinellidae) cluster on Horsetail Fern(Equisteum)  This clustering helps them keep one another warm and maybe the stink they make when altogether also keeps predators away. A Bumble Bee (Bombus) extends its hairy tongue encased in a sheath like maxilla into a flower in order to lap nectar Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) erupts from ground during snow melt in Yosemite National Park Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) eat about 25 percent of their body weight each day and this one used a rock to smash open this Gaper Clam (Tresus capax) on its belly Two BIson (Bison bison) chasing Grey wolf (canis lupus) and Common Raven (Corvus corax) off bison carcass. Herring gull (Larus argentatus) scoops up a small crab from sandbar, Barnegat Light, NJ

Journalism (13)

Okinawan dancer throws a karate punch to the accompaniment of drums at the Japanese Cultural Day in Cupertino, CA Graffiti damage can be punished as a FELONY by up to 3 years in state prison and a fine of up to $50K. This graffiti artist in the mission asked, understandably, that his face not be photographed High surf caused many road closures in Pacifica this winter. 2015 Fleet Week, Blue Angeles Formation Flying over San Francisco. In Pacifica, Fire Claims a House Already Condemned Due to Cliff Erosion A stilt-walker dressed as Fire high-fives an onlooker in San Francisco's Carnaval parade. SF's Finest participate in the December Brave the Bay's ocean plunge to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation The 2014 Kilauea lava flow stops just a few feet from the transfer station in Pahoa, Hawaii. Female Participants Lifting The Symbolic Coffin of Jesus During Semana Santa, Antigua, Guatemala Black Lives Matter Sympathizers Attempt To Disrupt Opening Ceremony For Chinese New Year Celebration San Francisco Two alarm house fire that started in the garage but quickly spread to the main house required 8 trucks and 40 fire fighters to knock down without any injuries - Foster City on Aug 18 Kayaker takes risk close to whale pod Boy Gathering Camel Dung At Pushkar Camel Fair To Be Used As Cooking Fuel

Travel (13)

A Visitor Admires the Non-Demoninational Chapel at Sea Ranch CA, Where Every Detail Evokes the Ocean Thatched home on a country road on the island of Fuen, Denmark. The Golden Gate Bridge just before sunrise A rebuilt street in Dresden's Old Town leads to the reconstructed Frauenkirche on the eve of the 800th anniversary of the city's founding in 1206 AD. On Safari in Botswana Africa Paulet Island Antarctica Caution- Volcano Ahead. Mt Shasta is the 5th highest peak in California. It rises abruptly to 14,179 ft. Most prominently seen are the main summit and the satellite cone known as Shastina. Postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge Silt Houses At Fenghuang Ancient Town, China Early Morning Discussion On The Grounds Of the Golden Temple Amristar India Camel Herder At The Watering Hole Pushkar India Out door dinning, Hutong District, Beijing, China Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Paris, France