The Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first run in 2006.It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status.This year's candidate images are listed at Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/2024.
Second place: Banna children in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts. Uznanie autorstwa: WAVRIK(CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: Young stars form in 'The Pillars of Creation' as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared camera Uznanie autorstwa: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) (public domain)
Third place: Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Uznanie autorstwa: StevenTerblanche(CC BY SA 4.0)
First place: Evolution of a Tornado: Composite of eight images shot in sequence as a tornado formed in Kansas. – Uznanie autorstwa: JasonWeingart (CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. – Uznanie autorstwa: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute (public domain)
Piyrsze plac: Two Julia Butterflies (Dryas iulia) drinking the tears of turtles in Ecuador. The turtles placidly permit the butterflies to sip from their eyes as they bask on a log. This "tear-feeding" is a phenomenon known as lachryphagy. Attribution: amalavida.tv (flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Trzicie plac: High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback. Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Drugi plac: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr)
Trzicie plac: High-speed photography of a light bulb shot with an airsoft pistol (positioned right of the lamp). Stefan Krause, Germany (User:Ritchyblack)
Piyrsze plac: A view of the lake Bondhus in Norway. In the background a view of the Bondhus Glacier as a part of the Folgefonna Glacier. (POTD) Heinrich Pniok (Alchemist-hp / pse-mendelejew.de)
Piyrsze plac: In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). (POTD) – Credit:
Drugi plac: Stari Most, the "Old Bridge", which connects the two banks of river Neretva, has been a symbol of Mostar for centuries. This view from north shows Helebija tower to the left and Tara tower to the right. It was made from the minaret of Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque. (POTD) – Credit: Own work by Ramirez. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Piyrsze plac: Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. (POTD) – Credit: Wikimedian Paulrudd. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Trzicie plac: The Russian military honor guard welcomes U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2009. Mullen is on a three-day trip to the country, meeting with counterparts and touring the Russian military academy. (POTD) – Credit:MC1 Chad J. McNeeley. (PD US Navy)
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Piyrsze plac: Two Julia Butterflies (Dryas iulia) drinking the tears of turtles in Ecuador. The turtles placidly permit the butterflies to sip from their eyes as they bask on a log. This "tear-feeding" is a phenomenon known as lachryphagy. Attribution: amalavida.tv (flickr)
Drugi plac:: An Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water. Attribution: Christopher Michel
Trzicie plac: High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback. Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler
Piyrsze plac The tungsten filament burning with a flame in the light bulb. Stefan Krause, Germany (License: FAL 1.3)
Drugi plac: National park "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains), Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine Balkhovitin (License: CC BY-SA 3.0)
Trzicie plac: A swallow (Hirundo rustica) drinking while flying over a swimming pool sanchezn (License: CC BY-SA 3.0)
Piyrsze plac: European Bee-eater, Ariège, France. The female (in front) awaits the offering which the male will make. Pierre Dalous (User:Kookaburra 81)
Drugi plac: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr)
Trzicie plac: High-speed photography of a light bulb shot with an airsoft pistol (positioned right of the lamp). Stefan Krause, Germany (User:Ritchyblack)
Piyrsze plac: A view of the lake Bondhus in Norway. In the background a view of the Bondhus Glacier as a part of the Folgefonna Glacier. (POTD) Heinrich Pniok (Alchemist-hp / pse-mendelejew.de)
Drugi plac: Self portrait of Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the Cupola module of the International Space Station observing the Earth below during Expedition 24. (POTD) Tracy Caldwell Dyson (NASA)
Trzicie plac: Cueva de los Verdes, Canary Islands, Spain. Reflection on water. (POTD) Luc Viatour (Lviatour)
Piyrsze plac: In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). (POTD) – Credit:Yuri Beletsky (ESO).(ESO - CC-BY-SA-3.0)
Drugi plac: Stari Most, the "Old Bridge", which connects the two banks of river Neretva, has been a symbol of Mostar for centuries. This view from north shows Helebija tower to the left and Tara tower to the right. It was made from the minaret of Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque. (POTD) – Credit: Own work by Ramirez. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Trzicie plac: Sarychev Peak Volcano erupts June 12, 2009, on Matua Island (North Kuril Islands) (POTD) – Credit: (CC-BY-SA‑2.0)
Piyrsze plac: Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. (POTD) – Credit: Wikimedian Paulrudd. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Drugi plac: Elakala Waterfalls in the Blackwater Falls State park, West Virginia, United States. (POTD) – Credit: Forest Wander from Cross Lanes, USA. (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
Trzicie plac: The Russian military honor guard welcomes U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2009. Mullen is on a three-day trip to the country, meeting with counterparts and touring the Russian military academy. (POTD) – Credit: MC1 Chad J. McNeeley. (PD US Navy)_in_Amritsar,_India.jpg)
Piyrsze plac: Horses on Bianditz mountain. Behind them Aiako Harria mountain can be seen. Mikel Ortega/Richard Bartz (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
Drugi plac: Fire breathing "Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band" in Chassepierre, Belgium. Luc Viatour (CC-BY-SA-2.5, 2.0, 1.0)
Trzicie plac: Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards in 1942. Jack Delano (PD-USGov)
Trzicie plac: Red Squirrel with pronounced winter ear tufts in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf Ray eye (CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
Piyrsze plac: The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska Joshua Strang (Public domain)
Drugi plac: Homeless person in Paris Eric Pouhier (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Trzicie plac: Hoverflies mating in midair. Fir0002 (GFDL)
