Grand Prize: Busaba, an Indochinese tigress, shaking off after a bath at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. Photo by Ashley Vincent.
First Place for Places: The Matterhorn, 4478 meters high, under a full moon. Photo by Nenad Saljic.
First Place for People: Scavenger women picking through a dumpsite, location unknown. Photo by Micah Albert.
Viewers’ Choice for Places: Inuit hunters chipping ice off an iceberg for fresh drinking water. Photo by Adam Coish.
Viewers’ Choice for People: Members of Expedition Amundsen racing across the Hardangervidda mountain plateau in Norway in preparation to cross Greenland. Photo by Kai-Otto.
Viewers’ Choice for Nature: A tender moment between a cheetah mother, Malaika, and her cub. The location of the photo is unknown. Photo by Sanjeev Bhor.
Honorable Mention: A red fox hunting through two feet of crusted snow, location unknown. Photo by Micheal Eastman.
Honorable Mention: Men working a dragon boat in China, a two thousand-year-old tradition to memorialize poet Qu Yuan. Photo by 关嘉城.
Honorable Mention: Glacial ice washing ashore on Iceland's eastern coast after calving off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. Photo by Eric Guth.
Honorable Mention: A patient at Yayasan Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi, Indonesia. Photo by Wendell Phillips.
Honorable Mention: A gloomy winter view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Photo by Indra Swari Wonowidjojo.
Honorable Mention: Fish moving in synchrony while being hunted. The location of the photo is unknown. Photo by Fransisca Harlijanto.
Honorable Mention: A wild Alaskan brown bear digging on a game trail, location unknown. Photo by Jason Ching.
Honorable Mention: Stilt fishermen at work in Sri Lanka. Photo by Ulrich Lambert.
See stunning images from National Geographic's photo contest
1/5/2013The winning photos in the 2012 National Geographic Photography Contest run the gamut from breathtaking to heartbreaking, with every emotional stop along the way. There's the grand-prize-winning shot of Basaba, an Indochinese Tigress, enjoying a shake after her swim. But there's also the haunting image of a helpless patient shackled to a post at a rehabilitation center in Indonesia. Check out the work of grand-prize-winner Ashley Vincent, along with 13 other stunning images — each one a conspiracy of light, color and context.
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