2014년 스미스소니언 잡지 사진전 수상작 : Winners of the 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

ALAN TAYLOR

The editors of Smithsonian magazine have announced the winners of their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. The winning photographs from from the competition's six categories are published below: The Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile. Also, a few finalists have been included as well. Captions were written by the photographers. Be sure to visit the contest page at Smithsonian.com to see all the winners and finalists.

• Grand Prize Winner. Women of a small village near Vinh Hy Bay, Vietnam, sew a fishing net while their husbands fish. Vinh Hy bay, Ninh Thuan, Vietnam. Photographed by Pham Ty from Vietnam. 

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• Winner: Natural World. A green iguana surfaces for air in a sea cave of the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Photographed by Lorenzo Mittig 

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• Winner: Travel. Fireworks shower onlookers in sparks during Holy Week celebrations in Acobamba, Tarma, Peru. Photographed by David Martín Huamaní Bedoya 

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• Readers’ Choice No. 1: A snake swallows an unlucky frog near the Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Photographed by Nicolas Reusens from Madrid, Spain 

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• Winner: Americana. Towards the end of his second term, US President Barack Obama glances out the Oval Office window as a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln is seen through another window of the White House. Photographer: Olivier Douliery 

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• Winner: People. A mother plays with her child in a flooded room, near the banks of the Ganges River, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Photographed by Joydeep Mukherjee 

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• Winner: Mobile. Reading in the National Library of China in Beijing. Photographer: Yilang Peng. 

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• Readers’ Choice No. 2. At Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, This caracolera is a harmless snake but was very restless, getting a photograph of his whole body was the challenge. Photographed by Alvaro Cubero Vega from Costa Rica. 

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• Winner: Altered Images. A house built for fishermen stands alone in the middle of the sea. "I was pleased to bring out the beauty of lonely," Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Photographer: Jefflin Ling 

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• A Finalist in the People category. Onno, a teenage girl from the Arbore tribe in Ommo Valley, Ethiopia, photographed by Matjaz Krivic from Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

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• A finalist in the Natural World category. Light refracts through the curves of a breaking wave, New South Wales, Australia, photographed by Ray Collins from Sydney, Australia. 

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• A finalist in the People category. A albino child attends an exhibition about albinos at the Ethnology Museum of Valencia, photographed by Ana Yturralde from Valencia, Spain. 

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• A finalist in the Travel category. Looking down at a wheat field in Bagan, Myanmar, from a hot air balloon. Photographed by by Sesh Kumar Sareday. 

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• A finalist in the Natural World category. Grizzly bear walking in an estuary in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, photographed by Kevin Morgans from Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, U.K. 

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