Twisted Sifter has selected the 76 best photos for 2014 from their popular “Pictures of the Day” series run throughout the year. Here are their choices!
Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2014.
Hong Kong stands up
The Maloja Pass, Switzerland
Iguazu Falls from below
Lavender sunsets in Provence
Embrace impermanence
The Transparent Kayak
Just a baby dwarf hippo
Canary Islands shipwreck
Baby approves ultrasound
A Day at the beach, 1905
When skydivers meet
Railroad sheet music
Creative mom turns lemons into lemonade
Snow covered lamp on Mount Washington
The largest US soccer crowd ever
Fluffiest tail ever
Sea horse
Crystal clear canoeing
This was taken exactly 45 years ago
Storm cloud looks like ocean waves
Admiring Machu Picchu with a friend
Real-Life Thomas the Tank Engine spotted in Japan
The Estonian National Opera parking entrance
This parrotfish photobomb is perfect
An abandoned mall overtaken by fish
Hover boats in Menorca, Spain
A watchtower for goldfish
Balloon ride in Cappadocia
Constructing an icon
My little sanctuary
Trolley goes back to the future
The birth of a star
Howdy hippo!
The glass bottom bedroom in Bali
Awestruck at the aquarium
The earth goddess
Strokkur geyser on the verge of eruption
A thin sheet of snow neatly folding over itself
Atop the world’s tallest residential building
Of lava and snow
A swirling storm from space
Angry bird
Hadrian’s wall, england
Sea of Cherry Blossom Petals
Hhirosaki, Aomori, Japan
The overgrown railway in Paris
The supercell
Just an owl standing on one foot
The Himalayan dog wanderer
The odd couple
Eight hours of takeoffs at lax
Spring equinox in Chicago
The 3d crosswalk
Schlegeis lake, Austria
The road to the stars
The stacked house hotel in Zaandam
Sunrise over Mount Bromo
Sidewalk astronomy
Storm the beach
The mast walk
Hallstatt village, Austria
Chicago reflected in Lake Michigan from an airplane
Elephant dust bath
A single snowflake
Strategically placed street art
Protectors of the realm
The 1920s selfie
Northern lights in Northern Finland
Follow the leader
The shadow cube
Deer oh deer oh deer
Lake Superior’s fortress of solitude
A fox says what?
The standoff
Freediving with tunas
The sky shadow