The best photos from the competition National Geographic 2014

• The best photos from the competition National Geographic 2014

Each year, National Geographic magazine holds a competition for the best photographs. The deadline for submission of works - on 31 October. The winner will receive $ 10,000 and the opportunity to visit the company's headquarters in New York.

Fireworks in Japan, Aichi Prefecture.

The piercing gaze. Cormorant in Florida.

Night. Yosemite National Park.

Geisha on the streets of Tokyo.

Fireflies, North Carolina.

Bear on the ice in Svalbard.

Colorful. Ankara, Turkey.

The sharks off the coast of Mexico.

Autumn landscape in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

The bride, Brazil. The idea for the wedding pictures.

The blue plant - it nemophila. They were in the park about 4.5 million, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Unearthly landscapes of Iceland.

portrait of South Africa.

Mantis.

The deer in the Austrian Alps, shakes off the water.

The Dance of dolphins in the southwest of the Aegean Sea.

Lemur. West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Leap wildebeest in the Mara River in Tanzania, the crocodile-infested.

Night landscape of Oregon.

Kangaroo on the lake in Australia. A feeling that he jumps in the water.

Medusa, Australia.

Fox plays with a vole.

Polar bear, Churchill, Canada.

Every year in January in the Spanish village of San Bartolomé de Pinares, located 100 km from Madrid, is a traditional celebration in honor of St. Anthony - the patron saint of animals. The night before the Day of St. Anthony, which falls on 17 January, there is the most colorful part of the celebration - the riders gallop on horseback through the flaming bonfires to purge the animals.