Smithsonian Photo Contest 2013

• Contest Smithsonian 2013

The editors of scientific and popular publications Smithsonian Smithsonian announced the finalists of its jubilee 10th photo contest in the categories of "World of Nature", "People", "Travel", "The American Experience" and "a modified image."

A witness an annular solar eclipse, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

The annual sale of kicking horses, Miles City, Montana, USA

The intermittent rice fields in the valley Bakshon, Lang Son Province, Vietnam.

Assistant grandfather, Hampton, Minnesota, USA.

Ants with seeds, West Java, Indonesia.

A lone acacia on a clay plateau Sossusvlei, Namibia.

A visit to the ancient capital of Bagan, Myanmar.

Musicians on arrival at the bullring, Quito, Ecuador.

The artificial ice geyser, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.

Blues on the streets of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The terrible force of Iowa tornado, Mapleton, Iowa, USA.

A lone tourist photographing the Milky Way over the National Park Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA

Rice terraces in front of the harvest season, Mukangchay, Yen Bai Province, Vietnam.

20-year-old Christine with her first-born under a mosquito net, Mulungvishi province of Katanga, Congo.

The police are running through the territory of the National Congress during the demonstrations against corruption, Brasilia, Brazil.

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

The man in the desert, apple, Texas, USA

river ferry early in the morning in the province of Hunan, China.

Young spiderhunter trying to attract the attention of their parents, the State Seravak, Malaysia.

salt Cleaning at sunset in the province of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Chinstrap penguins.