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National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a few of their entries from 2009 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 25 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (25 photos total)



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Here’s how families are eating around the globe during the holiday season:




Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: $260 in US dollars

Here at theMET, we admire artists and designers who take ordinary objects that we use in our daily lives, and turn them into something extraordinary.

Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire in England, chose spaghetti as the medium for his project, "The spaghetti sits on a 3d model of the Chrysler building that was modeled on CAD by my friend Ben Thorpe," said Creamer. Once that was finished, he headed over to his university and used a high density foam to complete the model.

In 1969, one of the most famous celebrity couples of the time — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — turned the last week of their honeymoon into a political and social action. They announced that they were going to spend that week secluded in room 902 of the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam, going nowhere and seeing nobody. Thus, they protested against the war in Vietnam and violence in the modern world, on the whole. Love against war.
Few people know that, during most of that week, their guest was Nico Koster, young photo-correspondent of De Telegraaf, a major Dutch newspaper. He took a lot of pictures of the eminent newlyweds, and the whole cycle reflects an intimate friendly feeling. In 1969, De Telegraaf published just one photo that became famous: John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose in bed with a giant flower-basket, and behind them on the window there are two sheets of paper with hand-written slogans: “BED PEACE” and “HAIR PEACE”.

The rest of the photographs of the cycle were not published in 1969. The negatives were lost, but 40 years after the photographer's daughter Nicole found them in an envelope with her childhood drawings.

Сходили вот в пятничку, на эту замечательную киношку.
И знаешь, понравилось...
Если тут таки глубокая философская мысля

Иногда, кажется, что он неcёт полный бред...
а инигда, ты чувствуешь что он прав))))

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Вот она и прикатила. пожаловала Кали-Юга)))

У кого не спросишь... времени нету тупо.. НИ НА ЧТО...
Вот мы с Оленькой и решили.. что кто-то его спи....л

ГРАЖДАНН БЛИН!!!! ВЕРНИТЕ ВРЕМЯ!!!!!!)))


«Укорачивание, ускорение времени свидетельствует об ухудшении дхармического состояния вселенной. Предела падения оно достигает в Кали-югу». (М. Альбедиль, ИнДжаСи)

"Никогда не беспокойтесь о вашем теле.
Только ваше состояние имеет значение.
Вы - ничто иное, как просто иероглифы неистощимого
языка, которым я буду продолжать говорить через вас
и чьи секреты я буду охранять своей жизнью.
Несмотря на то, что вы можете быть
неуклюжими, медлительными или безжизненными,- продолжайте.
Записывайте их своими мышцами,
своими умами и, если возможно, своими сердцами".
Г.И. Гурджиев