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  Picture of the Year 2012

   The Seventh Annual Wikimedia Commons POTY Contest

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Thanks for your participation! The 2012 winners have been announced!

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Introduction & dates
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Round 1:

Galleries

Round 2

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Finalists

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Organising committee

Rules · Translations · Discussion

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2012 WINNER

PICTURE OF THE YEAR

A pair of European bee-eaters in Ariège, France. The female (to the left) awaits the offering which the male will make. Photo taken by Pierre Dalous.

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  Second place: 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.
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  Third place: High-speed photography of a light bulb shot with an airsoft pistol (positioned right of the lamp).

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  #4: A wide evening view to Måbødalen in Eidfjord municipality, Hordaland, Norway, in 2011 August.
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  #5: Yak near Yamdrok lake, Tibet. It is a long-haired bovinae found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.
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  #6: Šmarjetna gora, view towards Škofja Loka, Slovenia.
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  #7: Heritage castle park in Pszczyna, Poland.
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  #8: Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan.
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  #9: Merging in the mist - Vasco da Gama Bridge, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  #10: Tarvasjõgi, Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia.
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  #11: The silhouette of space shuttle Endeavour seen against Earth's colorful horizon during shuttle mission STS-130
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  #12: Arlington Row, Bibury, built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. The buildings were converted into weaver cottages in the 17th century.

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• For details of the results from the 1st and 2nd rounds, see this list.
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• If there is no Results page in your language, see page Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations#Interface and rules and translate it. Thanks.