In this world’s most prestigious national photo contest, photographers are judged against others from their country of origin, regardless of which of the 10 categories the photo was submitted to.

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first held in 2006. It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status. Featured picture status means that these images were chosen by the community as some of the finest on Commons.
Here are the pictures that became winners of the 10th annual photo competition on Commons.
 

Winning a lottery is a thing many people dream of. But does it really change your life for the better? Check out how things can go horribly wrong once you win a jackpot.
 

Out of 17,000 photos submitted this year, these images were all recognized as overall winners.

These people all won the coveted title of America’s Next Top Model and this is what they have been doing since then.

The winners of this year’s National Geographic Magazine Photo Competition has been announced and the photos, as always, are stunning. This year $10 000 was awarded to Brian Yen for winning the Grand Prize and a trip to the National Geographic headquarters where he will participate in its annual photography seminar. The categories are People, Nature and Places and the captions are written by the photographers themselves.

The magazine Annals of Improbable Research created the Ig Nobel Prize in 1993 and the award is a parody of the original. When you see what people have done to win this prize you will understand why.

These amazing photographs were actually taken using an iPhone camera and are the top winners in the iPhone photography awards!
 

The results of the 6th Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest have been announced recently. About 600 photographs had been submitted for the contest and here are the pictures that received the most points in the community voting.

I wonder if the Minnesota Lottery is the only lottery that not only takes photos of their winners, but also posts these portraits online with people’s full names and trophies.

These lottery winners are lucky people, aren’t they?

Here are some of the winning photographs from the 2011 International Photography Awards. Which images captivate you the most?

1922 beauty contest winners.

The Miss World is a famous international beauty pageant. Let’s take a look at the last 20 winners of this contest. Each beauty-winner spent a year traveling around the world and representing the Miss World Organization. All girls are gorgeous and unique!

Kaiane Aldorino – Miss World for 2009, Gibraltar