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2nd Runner Up Jumping Through the sunset at Carpinteria Beach, California. Photo © John Nordstrand "This was captured during one of the more spectacular evenings from winter 2014. I live close to this spot, Carpinteria Beach in Carpinteria, California, and tried to find a good place to setup for the shot. I was fortunate to walk all the way down to the end of the beach where I saw the tidal pool. As the sunset unfolded, the reflections in the pool just got better and better. I had originally liked the image just as a landscape. But there is a local guy who walks the beach every night, and he had come down and gone all the way around the point. On his return, he just happened to "jump through" the perfect spot." Camera details: Canon 70D, a Canon EFS 10-18 Zoom Lens F4.5/5.6, and the settings were ISO 400, 10 mm, F 8.0 at 1/125. @www.nature.org

1st Prize Contemporary Issues Single Micah Albert, USA, Redux Images for Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 03 April 2012, Nairobi, Kenya A woman sits on bags of waste she has salvaged, at the Dandora municipal dump, outside Nairobi, Kenya. She said that she enjoys looking at books, even industrial catalogues, as a break from picking up garbage. The dumpsite, some 8 km from the center of the Kenyan capital, is one of the largest rubbish dumps in Africa. People living in the slum area around the site have been found to suffer from increased levels of lead in their blood, as well as above normal incidence of kidney disease and cancer. Gases rising from decomposing waste lead to high rates of respiratory disease. Despite the health risks, between 6,000 and 10,000 people earn a living from the dumpsite, seeking food waste, scavenging goods for resale, or separating materials for recycling. Informal cartels run the recycling operation, paying pickers around €2 a day.  Opened in 1975...

On June 23, 2013 at 11:32 UTC the full moon was not only the closest and largest full moon of the year, it will also be the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013. It will not be this close again until August 10, 2014. Astronomers call this sort of close full moon a  perigee full moon . The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. However, the word  supermoon  didn’t come from astronomy. Instead, it came from astrology. Astrologer Richard Nolle of the website  astropro.com  takes credit for coining the term  supermoon . There are three full moons in 2013 that meet the definition of a  supermoon  – May, June and July. But the June 22-23 full moon is the most  super  of them all :) Below you will find the days the moon is closest to Earth from 2011-2016: 2011: March 19 – 356,575 km 2012: May 6 – 356,955 km 2013: June 23 – 356,991 km 2014: August 10 -356,896 km 2015: September 28 ...

With all the beauty that our Earth has to offer, it’s a real pity that not all of us have enough time or possibilities to go and see it. That’s why we want to invite you to a virtual journey – and it won’t be some well-known tourist destinations, but instead – 22 amazing places that are hard to believe actually exist. Hopefully this list will make you hungry for travel and inspire you to go and finally buy those plane tickets! via:  boredpanda Tunnel of Love, Ukraine Image credits:  Oleg Gordienko Tulip Fields in Netherlands Image credits:  Allard Schager Salar de Uyuni: One of the World’s Largest Mirrors, Bolivia Image credits:  dadi360 Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan Image credits:  nipomen2  |  sename777 Mendenhall Ice Caves, Juneau, Alaska Image credits:  Kent Mearig Red Beach, Panjin, China Image credits:  MJiA Bamboo Forest, Japan