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Photo Challenge The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user.

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Formal things Challenges Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style. Participation Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply Choose one or all of the current challenges Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken) Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons) Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry). Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example: Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless. Do not sign your submission(s) If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images. To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list. New themes can be proposed and discussed here. Assessment After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here. Winning The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.

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Challenges open for submission

2017 – July – Sailboats and Tall ships

The new challenge features Sailboats and Tall ships.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout July UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. July 2017 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the Entries section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 10 days 20 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Cisne Branco. Парусник ВМФ Бразилии. Таллинские Дни моря 2017, Эстония

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  Sailboat infront of Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA

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  Avontuur passing Nordenham

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  Longship replica in Wilhelmshaven

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  Dar Młodzieży in Wilhelmshaven

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  Avontuur approaching Bremerhaven

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  Motor Banca

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  Kitesurf France 2009

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  Sailing boats in a bay of Saint_Lucia

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  Sailing boat, a hill and a woman, Greece

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  Composition of blue, lines, sailing boat, Greece

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  Sunset, dock of sailing boats. Greece

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  Sailing boat and sunset, Greece

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  Hydroptère à quai à Port du Crouesty.- Morbihan.- France

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  Pesca Moderna

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  Sailingboat in Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum Antwerp

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  SEIKO CUP 2017 - 13.05.2017

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  Boat in Porto, Portugal

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  Sail boat leaving Marina di Carrara harbor, Italy

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  Sail boat on the water of drying Bracciano lake, Italy

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  Boote am Steinhuder Meer (1)

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  Boote am Steinhuder Meer (2)

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  Boote am Steinhuder Meer (3)

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  Boote am Steinhuder Meer (4)

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  S/V Rembrandt van Rijn in Disco Bay, Greenland

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  41. Spinnakeri regatt 2017

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  Boat view from Beira Mar avenue(Florianópolis) on sunset

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  Sailboat off coast of Point Fermin, San Pedro, California.

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  The Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci near the Museo storico navale naval history museum in Venice
  

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  Buque Museo Fragata Sarmiento en Puerto Madero, Argentina.

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  Sailboat In Long Beach Harbor, California-01

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  Le 7 septembre 2014, la réplique de l'Hermione, construite à Rochefort, débouche de la Charente pour prendre la mer.

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  BARCOSLAGOA

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  Felukenboote mit den Seteesegeln auf dem Nil in Äypten.

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  Feier "Scharlachrote Segel" in St. Petersburg auf der Newa. Russland.

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  Feluccaboats on the river Nile

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  Saint-Malo (Brittany, France)

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  Three masts "Etoile du Roy"in the port of Saint-Malo

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  Three masts "Etoile du Roy"in the port of Saint-Malo

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  Three masts "Etoile du Roy"in the port of Saint-Malo

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  Three masts "Etoile du Roy"in the port of Saint-Malo

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  Replica of the galleon San Salvador in San Diego, California, USA

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  Feier "Scarlet Sails" in St. Petersburg auf der Newa - Swedish Segelboot "Trekronor".

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  Restaurant- Segelboot "Gnade" In Sankt-Petersburg auf der Newa. Russland.

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  Sailboats at Long Beach, California

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  Sailboat In Long Beach Harbor, California

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  SSV Oliver Hazard Perry - Newport-Rhode Island, USA

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  SSV Oliver Hazard Perry - Newport-Rhode Island, USA

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  A bad day for this racer

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  Model of Dutch tall ship 'Amsterdam' of the Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie, at the NEMO Science Center, Amsterdam

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  Barcos y veleros en Puerto Madero, Argentina.

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  To submit pictures please follow this link

2017 – July – Musical instruments

The new challenge features Musical instruments.

English theme title

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout July UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. July 2017 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the Entries section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

There are 10 days 20 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Cello y Cellist

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  Kobza

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  Saxophone. (House of Monsieur Sax, Dinant)

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  Hourglass in shape of saxophone (Dinant)

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  Hurdy-gurdy

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  Pipe organ, Igrejas dos Carmelitas e do Carmo, Porto

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  Pump organ

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  Musik aus dem Jahr 1560. Geselliges Leben in Freiberg. Aufgenommen am 21.Tag der Sachsen 2012 in Freiberg.

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  Spielleute. Aufgenommen am Schloss Wildeck in Sachsen.

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  Ocarina en terre cuite acheté sur "Mercado Central de San Pedro", de Cuzco (Pérou).

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  An inside view of a Sandtner Organ in the Herz-Jesu church in Augsburg

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  Steinway Grand piano on stage waiting to be played.

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  Tuscan ceramic whistle that produces four musical notes

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  Musikinstrument in Produktion. Aufgenommen am Tag der Sachsen 2013 in Schwarzenberg.

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  14. Saxoniade in Zwickau. Jugendlicher Blasmusikfest 2017.

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  Orchestra of the French Republican Guard

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  Orchestra of the French Republican Guard

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  Orchestra of the French Republican Guard

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  Orchestra of the French Republican Guard

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  Street musicians from Ecuador

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  Street musician from Ecuador

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  Street musicians from Ecuador

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  blurred photograph of an keyboard

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  Actors from the Brentano theatre in Bamberg and a tuba.

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  To submit pictures please follow this link

Challenges open for voting

Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month.

June 2017

• Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - June - Vanishing Point/Voting
• Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - June - Clocks/Voting

Previous challenges

May 2017

Mammals: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Zebra 2013 10 06 1274	Elephant mother and calf - chitwan	Wildschwein auf einer Wiese im Nebel im Sonnengegenlicht
Author	Alandmanson	Gozitano	GentsBilder
Score	23	20	20

Vehicles of public transportation: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Pamban Bridge is a railway bridge which connects the town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island to mainland India.	Two Airbuses at San Francisco International Airport	Sölden, Tirol, Österreich. Mit der Gaislachkogelbahn zum Ice Q. Sölden, Tyrol, Austria. With the Gaislachkogelbahn to the Ice Q
Author	Writingwithlight	Pulsarwind	Otto Domes
Score	19	18	17

April 2017

Tractors: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	John Deere tractors - One for all ages.jpg	"Lanz Bulldog" seen at Kröv tractor show	Tractor plowing to the land for cultivation
Author	Nheyob	Palauenc05	Ivan2010
Score	21	13	13

Nets: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Pêcheurs de la plage de Trinquemalay, (Sri Lanka)	Dried Physalis alkekengi	Fishing nets in Port-Vendres, France
Author	PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ	Gozitano	Palauenc05
Score	21	10	8

March 2017

Numbers: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image	[[File:|x240px]]
Title	Nautical chart (Egean sea) and ruler	228 Memorial stone blocks, 228 Memorial Park, Taiwan.	Lane number on a running track
Author	Gozitano	Mk2010	Mk2010
Score	22	18	16

Street photography: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Inhabitants of the blue city, Chefchaouen, Morocco	A lady is checking the timetable in Prague	Herd of cows on the street near Mellau, Austria
Author	Black Sickle	Ermell	CatalpaSpirit
Score	26	11	11

February 2017

Barns: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Traditional Norwegian barn for products storing. Norway	Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada	Abandoned barn
Author	Olga1969	Dllu	Star61
Score	22	12	8

Multilingualism: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image			[[File:|x240px]]
Title	A love message in 12 different languages, written on the shopping bag. (Italy)	Proletаrier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! . Aufgenommen in Chemnitz.	First day of school: Alice draws her family. (Italy)
Author	Rosapicci	Kora27	Rosapicci
Score	24	13	11

January 2017

Railways: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Dampfzug der Preßnitztalbahn bei Forellenhof im Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.	Tekniska högskolans metro station, Stockholm.	Bex-Villars-Bretaye train at Col de Bretaye
Author	Kora27	ArildV	KlausFoehl
Score	25	13	12

Drone photography: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Abbaye de Jumièges	Sunset in Varbla beach. Estonia.	Yulong, China
Author	Elya/Raymond (Co-production)	KristianPikner	Chensiyuan
Score	21	20	16

December 2016

Holidays/Vacations: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Buddhist holiday, near Phortse, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal	Stein am Rhein. Kanton Schaffhausen. Schweiz. Weihnacht.	Halloween costumes in the USA
Author	Gozitano	Hauserphoton	Jarekt
Score	13	9	8

Home appliances: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Telephone W48 Interior view	Wandtelefon. Automatische Wandstation Modell PTT 1950. Schweiz. Innenansicht.	Radio Kuba Imperial Adria - Interior view
Author	CatalpaSpirit	Photones	CatalpaSpirit
Score	26	24	7

November 2016

Rocks and Minerals: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Sea Glass on Glass Beach near Fort Bragg, CA	Agate	Ghiaia della costa adriatica. Riviera del Conero - Italia
Author	Ryanx7	SKas	Rosapicci
Score	19	18	9

Towers: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Jedlová observation tower, Czech republic	One World Trade Center, New York, USA	Clocktower in Graz
Author	Mirek256	Olga1969	Ermell
Score	19	13	9

October 2016

Gardening: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Scarecrow at Baddesley Clinton	Gardening_in_London	Old gardener sows beetroots in Estonia
Author	DeFacto	Ibex73	Maasaak
Score	15	11	11

Water Supply Infrastructure: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Supply of drinking water in Hong Kong	Water tower near Mittweida, Saxony, Germany	Marmeaux, old wash house in Burgundy, France
Author	Cccefalon	Kyriondaniel	Ibex73
Score	26	21	16

September 2016

Arthropods: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Crab spider (Unidentified Thomisidae) on Bearded Bellflower (Campanula barbata).	Krabbe am Strand des Rotes Meeres in Ägypten.	Male of a european jumping spider "Marpissa muscosa".About four fold magnification (ratio to sensor area). Munich (Germany)
Author	Thiotrix	Kora27	Thcilnegeg
Score	13	13	12

Local culture: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	1	3
Image
Title	Turkish tea offer	alle 2 Jahre findet diese Messe in Ludwigsburg statt	Sadhu sitting in the ground of Janaki Mandir, Janakpurdham Nepal.
Author	Maasaak	Achim04	Bijay chaurasia
Score	12	12	11

August 2016

Underwater photography: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Sea Turtle with Remoras - Marsa Alam, Egypt	Christmas Tree Worm, Thailand, Spirobranchus giganteus	Silhouette of scuba diver with the sun behind.
Author	GiorgioGaleotti	TimSC	TimSC
Score	12	12	10

Firefighters and firefighting equipment: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	CAL FIRE UH-1H Super Huey	Two Calera, Alabama firefighters pause during a battle against a residential housefire on April 27, 2016	Feuerschiff im Golf von Finnland in St. Petersburg. Russland.
Author	Tequask	31813D	Kora27
Score	13	9	8

July 2016

Leaf veins: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Veins of a wine leaf	Junge Walnussbaumblätter im Gegenlicht Contre-jour photo of young walnut tree leaves	Veins of a dried leaf.
Author	Ermell	F. Riedelio	Ermell
Score	13	9	9

Working animals: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Animals working in nepal	Amish horses at work in north west Pennsilvania	Yaks carrying load on the Everest Base Camp route in Nepal
Author	Gunjan Raj Giri	PeledY	TT4FT
Score	32	17	15

June 2016

Manufacturing: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Workers are cutting big timbers into planks in a sawmill in Sandakan, Malaysia	Taken the photo from outskirts of Bengaluru during a workshop	Ferreiro ou metalúrgico tradicional
Author	Cccefalon	Nikhilvrma	Wagnerggomes
Score	21	14	14

Rock formations: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Storm Over the Badlands in South Dakota, USA	Gozo, Malta: The Azure Window	The Grand Canyon showing washouts by the Colorado River, Arizona (USA)
Author	Rapahanock	Cccefalon	CatalpaSpirit
Score	12	9	9

May 2016

Hats: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Aufgenommen in Oelsnitz bei einer Veranstaltung in Oelsnitz/Erzgebirge (Landesgartenschau 2015).	Hut als Blumentopf umfunktioniert Hat converted as a flowerpot	Hats at the Green fair, Rome
Author	Kora27	F. Riedelio	Albarubescens
Score	33	23	9

Birds in their habitat: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Stork-billed kingfisher with catch, Kole wetlands Thrissur	Chennai, India	Japanese white-eye
Author	Manojk	Mymoon Moghul	Laitche
Score	25	15	14

April 2016

Children playing: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Children playing with a ball at the beach	Children playing with their hands	Kids playing Pallanguli,an Indian traditional game
Author	Ivan2010	Ibex73	Abi blu
Score	31	20	19

Long exposure photography: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Insect flight in the night, in front of a spotlight, 30s	View at the hunting lodge Jägersburg in Eggolsheim	Christmas Tram, Budapest
Author	Alchemist-hp	Ermell	Epistola8
Score	43	41	23

Religious practices: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Abu Sami, a Bedouin from the eastern desert of Jordan, prays in a nomad's mosque pointing towards Mecca. Notice the pair of sandals outside the mosque.	Woman burning incense at Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai	Betende Frau im Speyerer Dom Praying woman in the Speyer Cathedral
Author	Sima shimony	Ermell	F. Riedelio
Score	56	18	17

March 2016

Inside / Outside: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Igloo satellite cabins at Law-Racoviță Station, Antarctica - inside	Sprial Staircase, City Hall, London	Parliament Building, Budapest, inside
Image
Title	Igloo satellite cabins at Law-Racoviță Station, Antarctica - outside	The Scoop at More London, with City Hall	Parliament Building, Budapest, outside
Author	Tsy1980	Colin	Epistola8
Score	25	20	13

Faces in objects: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Dinosaur like stone face in karnataka	Tree Serpant	The Elephant Rock, Apremont Forest of Fontainebleau
Author	Vinayraghavendra	Hansons photo's	Thor19
Score	34	28	13

February 2016

Mailboxes: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Rural mailboxes in Santa Fe NM	Postbox in Hungary	Mailbox in Rustico Style, Mergoscia, Switzerland
Author	Tomspro	Ermell	GabrielleMerk
Score	27	26	12

Reflections: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Twins?	Blasmusikfestival 2013 in Chemnitz.. Deutschland.	Photo de nuit du pont d'Aigues-Mortes dans le Gard.
Author	Limoel	Kora27	V.gimmelli
Score	17	12	11

January 2016

Diagonals: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Wood at Leaplish	Ibex in the French Alps	Boeing 747 taking off at Los Angeles International Airport
Author	The joy of all things	Ibex73	Tequask
Score	19	15	13

Wheels: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
Image
Title	Wheel of a Prussian P8 Lokomotive	Millwheel in the Tux Valley, Tyrol, Austria	junk wheel sculpture
Author	Ermell	Wald1siedel	CKCMCD
Score	45	13	12

2015

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2015.

2014

Archived to Commons:Photo challenge/Previous/2014.