Commons:Picture of the Year/2009/Results/List

Fourth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year

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Commons Picture of the Year 2009

Commons Picture of the Year 2009  : # 1 – 62 votes in Final; Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Paulrudd .

# 2 – 56 votes in Final; Elakala Waterfalls in the Blackwater Falls State park, West Virginia, United States. (POTD) Credit: Forest Wander from Cross Lanes, USA .

# 3 – 52 votes in Final; 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 .

# 4 – 37 votes in Final; A European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) flying back to its hive carrying pollen in a pollen basket. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Muhammad Mahdi Karim .

# 5 – 35 votes in Final; Wild horses in Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, near Cleebronn, Germany. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Brackenheim, Robin Müller .

# 6 – 34 votes in Final; The Milky Way arches across this 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. (POTD) Credit: ESO/H.H. Heyer .

# 7 – 32 votes in Final; Bois du Cazier, a ruin of a colliery in Marcinelle, Charleroi, Belgium. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Lviatour Luc Viatour .

# 8 – 29 votes in Final; A shell casing flies out with a trail of smoke as U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Freise fires an M-4 rifle (POTD) Credit: DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, U.S. Air Force. .

# 8 – 29 votes in Final; Tavurvur, an active stratovolcano near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (POTD) Credit: Taro Taylor edit by Richard Bartz .

# 9 – 25 votes in Final; A Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Lviatour, Luc Viatour .

# 9 – 25 votes in Final; Housefly, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Noodle snacks .

# 10 – 23 votes in Final; Eilean Donan Castle is a rebuilt castle at Dornie in the Scottish Highlands. It is located on Eilean Donan, an island near the point where the sea lochs Loch Duich, Loch Alsh and Loch Long meet. This view from north was made at high tide. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle) .

# 10 – 23 votes in Final; Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) posing in the Oslo Reptile Park. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Uspn, Bjørn Christian Tørrissen .

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Category - People and human activities
People #1 – 68 votes in Round 1; Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Paulrudd .
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Category - Panoramas
Panoramas #1 – 61 votes in Round 1; The Milky Way arches across this 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. (POTD) Credit: ESO/H.H. Heyer .
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Category - Diagrams, emblems and maps
Diagrams #1 – 59 votes in Round 1; Partial view of the Mandelbrot set. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Wolfgangbeyer .
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Category - Nature views
Nature views #1 – 58 votes in Round 1; Tavurvur, an active stratovolcano near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea (POTD) Credit: Taro Taylor edit by Richard Bartz .
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Category - Non-photographic art, posters, stamps and historic maps
Artworks #1 – 52 votes in Round 1; The Great Wave off Kanagawa (POTD) Credit: created by Katsushika Hokusai, restored and uploaded by Wikimedian Durova .
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Category - Other animals
Other animals #1 – 51 votes in Round 1; Wild horses in Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, near Cleebronn, Germany. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Brackenheim, Robin Müller .
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Category - Plants and fungis
Plants and fungis #1 – 49 votes in Round 1; The "indigo Lactarius", species Lactarius indigo (Schwein.) Fr. Specimen photographed in Strouds Run State Park, Athens, Ohio, USA. (POTD) Credit: Mushroom Observer Dan Molter edit by Tony Wills .
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Category - Birds
Birds #1 – 48 votes in Round 1; A Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Lviatour, Luc Viatour .
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Category - Constructions, architecture, cities, ruins and related
Constructions #1 – 47 votes in Round 1; A exposure blended photo of the Sydney Opera House, as viewed from the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian User:Diliff, David Iliff .
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Category - Objects, outer space and miscellaneous
Objects #1 – 46 votes in Round 1; Bois du Cazier, a ruin of a colliery in Marcinelle, Charleroi, Belgium. (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Lviatour Luc Viatour .
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Category - Arthropods
Arthropods #1 – 35 votes in Round 1; Housefly, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia (POTD) Credit: Wikimedian Noodle snacks .
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