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1. FOTODC_111106_002.JPG: Daniel Berehulak Australia, Getty Images 1st Prize People in the News Stories Unusually heavy monsoon rains in July triggered the worst flood in Pakistan's history. Beginning in the northern province of Baluchistan, the flood spread throughout the Indus River Basin to Punjab and Sindh in the south. At one point, around one fifth of the country's total land mass was under water. Over 20 million people were directly affected by the floods with up to 1,600 killed, as homes were destroyed and crops and livestock were washed away. The country's infrastructure was devastated as thousands of kilometers of roads and railways were destroyed. Flood victims scramble for food rations int he downwash of a Pakistan army helicopter, during relief operations in Sindh, the worst-hit province, on 13 September.
2. FOTODC_111106_021.JPG: Benjamin Lowy USA, Reportage by Getty Images for GQ 1st Prize Nature Stories In April, the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig, in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, sunk after an explosion. Over the next four months, the resultant sea-floor oil gusher released an estimated 4.9 million barrels (nearly 780 million liters) of crude oil, making it the biggest marine oil spill in history and causing extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats, as well as to tourism and fishing industries in the Gulf. The rig, operated by Transocean under contract for BP, was drilling in about 1,525 meters of water, pushing the boundaries of deepwater drilling. President Barack Obama placed an immediate moratorium on new drilling off the US coast. Pools of crude oil float to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, in June.
3. FOTODC_111106_036.JPG: Daniele Tamagni Italy 2nd Prize Arts and Entertainment Stories Freestyle wrestling, or lucha libre, one of the most popular entertainments in Bolivia, was once the domain of men only. Now cholitas, women wearing the traditional skirts and bowler hates of the indigenous Aymara and Quechua people, are making a mark. The choreographed tussles, part-comic, part-epic struggles between good and evil figures, attract enthusiastic audiences. Some of the women even take on their male counterparts. Two cholitas wrestle in the city of La Paz.
4. FOTODC_111106_045.JPG: Reinhard Dirscherl Germany, for Mare 2nd Prize Natural Singles Atlantic sailfish drive sardines into a bait ball, off the Yucatan coast, Mexico. Sailfish get their name from the large dorsal fin that stretches almost the entire length of their body and is higher than their bodies are thick. They can swim at speeds of up to 110 kilometers per hour. Their size, speed and spirited fight make sailfish a favorite among big-game fishers.
5. FOTODC_111106_052.JPG: Gustavo Cuevas Spain, EFE 2nd Prize Sports Singles Matador Julio Aparicio is gored by a bull after losing his footing during a bullfight in Madrid in May. One of the animal's horns pierced his throat and punched through the bottom of his mouth, puncturing his tongue and fracturing his jaw. After an emergency one-hour operation in the medical center at the bullring, Aparicio was transferred to hospital for further surgery. He recovered, and returned to the ring in August.
6. FOTODC_111106_059.JPG: Mike Hutchings South Africa, Reuters 1st Prize Sports Singles The Netherlands' Demy de Zeeuw is accidentally kicked in the face by Uruguay's Martin Caceres during a World Cup semi-final soccer match in Cape Town, South Africa, on 6 July. The Dutch won the match 3-2. De Zeeuw was taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw. He was later able to rejoin his teammates but was not selected to play in the final, when the Dutch lost 0-1 to Spain.
7. FOTODC_111106_068.JPG: Vincent Yu Hong Kong, the Associated Press 3rd Prize People in the News Singles North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il attends a military parade, together with his youngest son and designated successor Kim Jong-un, in Pyongyang on 10 October. Until then, Kim Jong-un had rarely appeared in public or been photographed. The elder Kim, said to be in poor health after apparently suffering a stroke in 2008, had hurried his youngest son's steps to succession in previous weeks. In September, Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his late twenties, was appointed a four-star general and given two significant positions in the party. It appeared that his elder brothers were either uninterested or deemed unsuitable for the position.
8. FOTODC_111106_077.JPG: Olivier Laban-Mattei France, Agence France-Presse 1st Prize General News Stories In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January, thousands of residents fled the capital Port-au-Prince. They said they were tired of sleeping in the streets, afraid of being robbed by gangs and looters, or fearful that aftershocks might destroy the buildings still standing. As aid was slow to reach many victims of the earthquake, particularly in the capital city, looting became a strategy for survival. A woman walks through the streets of Port-au-Prince on January 19, a week after the quake.
9. FOTODC_111106_083.JPG: Riccardo Venturi Italy, Contrasto 1st Prize General News Singles A girl looks on as the Marche Hyppolite in Port-au-Prince burns, on 18 January, six days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. The market, popularly known as the Marche en Der (Iron Market) was a city landmark, dating back to 1891. The devastation caused by the earthquake appeared to paralyze authorities, leading to accusations of indecision and delay when it came to clean-up operations. But the enormity of the task that faced them, together with an infrastructure already weakened by decades of violent political instability and economic deprivation, were also to blame. The Marche en Fer was one of the first buildings in the capital to be restored, thanks largely to an 8.8 billion Euro cash injection by a private donor. A year after the earthquake struck Haiti, just 5 percent of the resultant rubble had been removed from Port-au-Prince, but the Iron Market had re-opened for business with some 900 vendors.
10. FOTODC_111106_089.JPG: Corentin Fohlen France, Fedephoto 2nd Prize Spot News Stories Red Shirt protestors clash with Thai government forces in mid-May, in the Silom commercial district of Bangkok. The clashes were part of a two-month stand-off between the Red Shirts and the authorities. Thailand had been gripped by political unrest since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a military coup in September 2006. Elections in 2008 had placed Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Democratic Party leader, in power. But the Red Shirts, coming largely from among the rural poor who had benefited from Thaksin's policies, opposed him. Protestors hurled rocks and set fire to tires in the street. Troops and the police countered with rubber bullets, tear gas, and live ammunition. On 19 May, Red Shirt leaders surrendered, telling their supporters to end the protest. Even after the call to surrender, some demonstrators said they would fight on. By the time unrest finally died down at the end of May, over 80 people had been killed and some 2,000 injured.
11. FOTODC_111106_095.JPG: Bridget Besaw Patagonia Rave The Aysen Region of Chilean Patagonia is threatened by a plan to build five dams on two of the wildest rivers in the world -- the Baker and the Pascua. Erasmo Betanour Casanova, nickname: Beta, lives with his wife Eliana Casanova and their daughters Fanni, age 12, and Karen, age 14. He is a huaso (a Chilean cowboy), who works for Conservacion Patagonica managing the remaining cattle and sheet in Valle Chacabuco as it transitions towards becoming the future Patagonia National Park.
12. FOTODC_111106_102.JPG: Ian McAllister Great Bear Rainforest Rave A kermode bear (Ursus Americanus Kermodei) in British Columbia's great bear rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Known as a spirit bear, they are revered by first nations and long a part of their cultural mythology. These bears are not albino, rather a subspecies of the American black bear. Subsisting primarily on a diet of salmon, their habitat and survival would be severely threatened by construction of a pipeline to move oil from the tar sands to the coast.
13. FOTODC_111106_110.JPG: Garth Lenz Flathead Rave Mountaintop mining operations underway in the Elk Valley of British Columbia adjacent to the undisturbed Flathead River Valley, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Conservation Organizations such as Flathead Wild, Sierra Club, NPCA, Wild Sight, CPAWS, The Wild Foundation and others are working to create a national park in the lower one-third of BC's Flathead River Valley and a Wildlife Management Area in the rest of the valley and adjoining habitat.
14. FOTODC_111106_121.JPG: Paul Nicklen Yucatan Rave Yucatan Peninsula, Akumal, Mexico. A cenote is a sinkhole with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater. The Yucatan Peninsula contains a vast coastal aquifer system (and underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock from which groundwater can be extracted). Freshwater is the linking factor in both the ecological and economic systems of the Yucatan Peninsula.
15. FOTODC_111106_128.JPG: Florian Schulz Yucatan Rave Yucatan Peninsula, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Jaguar. An adult Jaguar captured at night using a camera trap. The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is one of the largest forested tracts of dry tropical forest in Central America.
16. FOTODC_111106_136.JPG: Roy Toft Borderlands Rave Otay Mountain Wilderness, US/Mexico Border Wall-Fence In 1964, the US Congress passed the Wilderness Act "to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness." Since then, Congress has designated more than 700 wilderness areas, which strictly prohibit roads and cars in order to preserve wild solitude. One of those areas, the Otay Mountain Wilderness, lies in Southern California, on the US-Mexico border. In December 2008, the Department of Homeland Security began splicing through the quiet Otay mountainside with roads in order to get machinery and materials to the border for wall construction.
17. FOTODC_111106_142.JPG: Uwe Weber Germany, for Bild 3rd Prize Spot News Singles People press through the crowd at the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, in a crush that left 21 dead and more than 500 injured. The Love Parade, a public party and music festival first held in Berlin in 1989, has attained cult status around the world. The Duisburg event, held on festival grounds at the site of a disused railway depot, had only one entrance -- a tunnel 100 meters long and 16 meters wide. Revelers packed into the tunnel after police attempted to control access to the grounds. Estimates after the event put attendance figures at 1.4 million, but a later police statement reduced that to 400,000. Argument continued for months as to who was responsible for the disaster, and an official investigation into the affair looked set to drag on into 2012. The head organizer of the Love Parade announced that the festival would not be held again.
18. FOTODC_111106_151.JPG: Too Young To Wed Stephanie Sinclair Portrait of soon-to-be-wed Faiz, 40, and Ghulam, 11, at her home in a rural village of Ghor province. When asked how she felt that day, the bewildered girl responded, "I do not know this man. What am I supposed to feel?"
19. FOTODC_111106_158.JPG: Too Young To Wed Stephanie Sinclair Sidaba is 11 years old, and this is her wedding day. In Hajjah, a province in northwestern Yemen, she wears makeup for the first time and is draped in a handmade bridal veil.
20. FOTODC_111106_175.JPG: Jodi Bieber South Africa, Institute for Artist Management / Goodman Gallery for Time World Press Photo of the Year 2010 Bibi Aisha (18) was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband's house in Oruzgan province, in the center of Afghanistan. She had returned to her parents' home, complaining of violent treatment by her in-laws. Men arrived here one night demanding that she be handed over to be punished for running away. Aisha was taken to a mountain clearing, where, at the orders of a Taliban commander, she was held down and had first her ears sliced off, and then her nose. In local culture, a man who has been shamed by his wife is said to have lost his nose, and this is seen as punishment in return. Aisha was abandoned, but later rescued and taken to a shelter in Kabul run by the aid organization Women for Afghan Women, where she was given treatment and psychological help. After time in the refuge, she was taken to America to receive further counseling and reconstructive surgery.
21. FOTODC_111106_200.JPG: Jim McMahon Honorable Mention, Festivities
22. FOTODC_111106_217.JPG: Buddy Secor 2nd Place, Landscape
23. FOTODC_111106_227.JPG: Bernard Chen 1st Place, Landscape
24. FOTODC_111106_234.JPG: Jeff Simpson 2nd Place, People
25. FOTODC_111106_240.JPG: Mary Clay Berry The Natural World -- Series 3rd Place
26. FOTODC_111106_250.JPG: Gabriella Demczuk Home of the Brave A girl chases a pigeon into the Arlington West Memorial on Santa Monica Beach, California. This contemporary cemetery is installed every Sunday by Veterans for Peace to honor fallen war heroes. There are more than 2000 wooden markers spanning the breach right next to the pier and a placard listing all the men who have died since the invasion of Iraq. Student -- Single 3rd place
27. FOTODC_111106_255.JPG: Peter Lik Eternal Beauty The Natural World -- Single 3rd Place
28. FOTODC_111106_264.JPG: Peter Lik Inner Peace The Natural World -- Single 1st Place
29. FOTODC_111106_271.JPG: Aristide Economopulos Heat Wave Heat wave in Newark, NJ Travel -- Single 3rd place
30. FOTODC_111106_277.JPG: Peter Dazeley First Breath Contemporary Life -- Single 3rd Place
31. FOTODC_111106_284.JPG: Alessandro Belgiojoso Redentore # 3 First Art -- Single 1st Place
32. FOTODC_111106_291.JPG: Sam Kittner ASLA Green Roof Image to help promote concept and implementation of urban Green Roofs. Commercial -- Single 3rd place
33. FOTODC_111106_297.JPG: Alyona Vogelmann Moment at the Arlington National Cemetery Mobile Phone: Spirit of Washington -- Single 2nd place
34. FOTODC_111106_305.JPG: Ben Marcin Silver Run, MD 2009
35. FOTODC_111106_309.JPG: Irene Abdou Wrapped in Blue A young Fulani boy wraps a turban around his head in traditional nomadic fashion to protect from the harsh dust and wind of the Harmattan season.
36. FOTODC_111106_342.JPG: Alberto Schommer Salvador Dali, Painter, 1973 Psychological Portraits Series
37. FOTODC_111106_367.JPG: Amit Sha'al Israel, Calcalist 3rd Prize Arts and Entertainment Stories Archive photos set against their present-day backdrops in Israel. The photographer rested his arm on a tripod so that his hand did not move while juxtaposing the images. British guards (in 1936) at the YMCA building, Jerusalem, pictured in 2010.
38. FOTODC_111106_373.JPG: Andrew Biraj Bangladesh, Reuters 3rd Prize Daily Life Singles An overcrowded train approaches a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as more passengers wait to board. Millions of residents of Dhaka were traveling to their home villages to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday. Dhaka is fast becoming one of the largest cities in the world. Its present population of 13 million is expected to rise to between 22 and 25 million by 2020. The rapid population growth has put severe pressure on transport infrastructure.
39. FOTODC_111106_379.JPG: Thomas P. Peschak Germany/South Africa, Save Our Seas Foundation 1st Prize Nature Singles A Cape gannet comes in to land at Malgas Island during the summer nesting season. The island, off the west coast of South Africa, is an important seabird breeding ground.
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2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN), New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting), my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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